VLVL The Wayvones; drugs

[Terrance]

Reading VL one could argue that TRP doesn't like  Drugs and Sex. But, I
think this kind of reading is absurd.  However, from the get-go, drugs
cause big problems for the characters in VL. Prairie doesn't quite trust
her old man because she thinks he smokes too much pot and she thinks his
memory is bad and he's paranoid.  
LSD blinds people with X-ray vision, turning them into children forever
young, who actually believe that they have taken a chemical that strips
the State's power over life and  death. A mindless pleasure or a mental
hand job? Which do you want it to be?  While cities burn in the USA and
villages burn in Vietnam, the flower children drop acid and play in the
pasture, drinking and dancing with the local fuzz.