Here's a Benson and Hedges commercial, the music is "The Disadvantages of You". Looks like McLean Stevenson in the boat.

Yes, you're ignored, and I read your comment anyway.

No, in saying "use drugs," I was not "implying cannabis." I said "use drugs" because I meant "use drugs." Rather than trying to interpret or 'read into' what I'm saying, it might help if you responded to my post, and not what you post in your mind on my behalf.

And I will take you up on your 'challenge:' below is a list of ten "highly intelligent" people who have used cocaine (note: at no point did I say "encourages the use of cocaine." I said "use drugs" without becoming addicted, and being able to function), so that you can provide me with 10,000 more** whose lives and families have been destroyed by it. (**And note here, we're talking about individuals whose lives were destroyed by the use of cocaine itself, and not by the pointless drug laws that imprison people for having a mental or emotional condition that provokes "self-medication" as a form of treatment. Nor are we talking about the illegal status of cocaine which, itself, gives rise to violent cartels that function in the shadow of its legal status.)

So, while certainly many of the following list of "highly intelligent" (non-cognitively deficient) and successful "celebrities" may no longer be using cocaine, all of the following have used cocaine and are/were not addicted and function(ed) just fine:

Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Oprah Winfrey
Stephen King
Tim Allen
Hunter S. Thompson
Angelina Jolie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Steven Tyler
Robert Downey, Jr.

There are others (like William Burroughs, Eric Clapton, Grover Cleveland, David Crosby, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isadora Duncan, Ulysses S Grant, Abbie Hoffman, Elton John, King George V, Larry Kudlow, Sir Paul McCartney, & Barack Obama), but I thought I'd stop at 10.

And if you post the 10,000 names of those whose lives and families were destroyed by cocaine (and not by the pointless drug laws or its illegal status) by the end of the week, I'll take your point.

Related:

http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-The-Move
http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-and-The-Cans-The-Healthy-One

Related:

http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-L-DOPA
http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-and-The-Cans-The-Healthy-One

Related:

http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-L-DOPA
http://videosift.com/video/Laura-Stevenson-The-Move

YT had only two vids of this song and this was the most innocuous. The other had scenes of Tx which was nice, but interspersed were personal pics for which I did not care.
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in other news, what's with the pictures in this video? I like the Moe thumbnail...

I much recommend the self titled album(CD) B W Stevenson. It can be had on eBay for a decent price if you are paient. I just checked and it is available in a compilation CD there.

If you/your dad have good sound systems, you will be amazed the sound of these recordings. Stevenson was networked with some incredible talent.
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That's amusing that THIS was called pop country in light of what country music is now... I'm digging this and it's also the kind of stuff my dad likes. There's a best of album on amazon I'm taking a gander at...
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Don't you love all the genre tags?
It was called Country Pop at one point!?
The Texas music scene was a lot of fun back then and some since.
Stevenson had a couple of hits. They were his lesser works IMHO.
I am happy you like it. I expected no votes on these actually.
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I've never heard of "progressive country" I like it

That's amusing that THIS was called pop country in light of what country music is now... I'm digging this and it's also the kind of stuff my dad likes. There's a best of album on amazon I'm taking a gander at...

>> ^chicchorea:

Don't you love all the genre tags?
It was called Country Pop at one point!?
The Texas music scene was a lot of fun back then and some since.
Stevenson had a couple of hits. They were his lesser works IMHO.
I am happy you like it. I expected no votes on these actually.
>> ^residue:
I've never heard of "progressive country" I like it

Don't you love all the genre tags?

It was called Country Pop at one point!?

The Texas music scene was a lot of fun back then and some since.

Stevenson had a couple of hits. They were his lesser works IMHO.

I am happy you like it. I expected no votes on these actually.
>> ^residue:

I've never heard of "progressive country" I like it

A video released as part of a lawsuit against police in Millville, Philadelphia, shows an officer forcefully punching a woman in the face four times after he bungled an attempt to arrest her for riding a bike on the sidewalk.

As reported by NBC news, Sheila Stevenson, 42, has filed a civil suit (PDF), alleging police used excessive force, after then-Millville Police Officer Carlo Drogo stopped her one year ago on February 3 2008.

The newly released video shows Drogo attempting to use pepper spray on Stevenson while she is still on the bike, but instead spraying himself in the face.

As Stevenson struggles, a reeling Drogo knocks her off the bike and onto the ground.

Two more cops then arrive and haul Stevenson to the curb, one of them seemingly applying the full force of his upper arm onto her neck and head.

The same cop then thrusts his knee into her back twice, with full force, whilst attempting to handcuff her.

"I am not doing nothing," Stevenson screams.

"Put your hands behind your back," one of the other officers orders.

"Can you not do this? I'm not doing nothing! I'm not doing nothing," she wails.

Drogo, clearly in great discomfort from using his own pepper spray on himself, then approaches Stevenson after the other officers have restrained her and aggressively punches her in the face and head four times.

"Why are you hitting me? You're hitting me! Why are you hitting me?" Stevenson cries out. "Why did you hit me and I'm handcuffed?"

Stevenson was later convicted of resisting arrest. As noted by NBC10, Drogo resigned from the police department in October for undisclosed reasons. He has previously issued a statement defending his actions and maintaining that Stevenson's allegations represent a distortion of the facts.

I think he kind of embarrasses himself here for instance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbwBqn3esy8

On his site he addresses the 'controversy' here http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/response-to-controversy3/

where he even invokes the (blatantly fraudulent or at best a laughable sort of pious believer's delusion) claims of Ian Stevenson that children talking in tongues constitutes actual evidence of reincarnation. Though no less than Carl Sagan himself came near to endorsing this very field as 'worthy of future study' in The Demon Haunted World. so, not the worst lapse of reason in history I guess. Everybody got a gree-gree though, right?

"Yeah, it's Alan Rickman. The wife is played by Kirsten Scott Thomas and the mistress is played by Juliet Stevenson." from youtube comments

Pamela Stevenson; I quite fancy her here. She later became Billy Connelly's wife.

"Ike is Ike and Bob is Bob Taft. Taft was a conservative and Ike was a moderate. This was an attempt by Stevenson to corrode Ike moderate credentials." - youtube commenter

Anyone else think Bob sounds like Marvin Martian?