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If you want to take issue with what he said go right ahead. Just don't insert your own unsupportable ideas of what you think he said to do it.

1. I never quoted him. However, it's not unsupportable. The article is called "Summer of Drugs", as Ted says "intelligent people" will remember it.

2. The bulleted points about his fellow artists are of those who "gagged to death on their own vomit" due to drugs. The vast majority didn't.

3. Ted seems to place clear emphasis on his sobriety.

4. "Clean and sober is the real party."

It's not a mathematical proof, it's an opinion piece. The implication is quite clear.

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You still don't seem to get it so let me spell it out very specifically. You directly implied that Ted claimed that drug users are; 1)loosers 2)talentless and/or 3)socialists.

One more time…your quote; "Just saying, drug use doesn't automatically make one a talentless loser or socialist.

I took issue with your statement as follows:
1) drug users are/become loosers – Ted did say that, I agree with it, and there is enormous support for that position.
2)drug users are/become tallentless - that is not true and Ted didn’t say that – you did.
3)drug users are/become socialists - that is not true and Ted didn’t say that – you did.

I agree that Ted called drug users loosers. He is right in that regard. You do not need to post for a fourth time that the article is about drug users being loosers; virtually everyone got that point the first time they read it.

You cannot support your assertion that Ted claimed drug users are talentless and/or socialist.

Perhaps the proper topic of discussion should be that drug use causes delusions of persecution and/or paranoia, errors in logical thinking and gaps in reading comprehension.