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The Strange Interpretations of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I couldn't help but recall the classic justification of druggie burnout behavior. Usually, it came from the mouths of parents. Their children weren't really stoners, you see, but just “experimenting with drugs.”

I always wondered about these folks experimenting with drugs. Did they…

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