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Monday, November 14, 2005

Drugs are for Old People

Posted by on November 14 at 14:51 PM

A nursing home in Dublin has found a genius way to combat residents’ loneliness and boredom—they installed a pub. God bless the Irish.

But why stop at a bar? Why not an opium den? Or a Dutch-style cannabis/coffee shop? Or a “chill out room” with mild psychedelics and pretty wall projections? Drugs are wasted on the young—such pleasures belong to the twilight years.