Drugs were a HUGE taboo back in those days.
I do not know for sure, but I seriously doubt that topic would have even been allowed on TV shows back then. Two other contemporary shows back then delighted in sneaking "toilet jokes" into the scripts, and even the sound of a toilet flushing was not allowed (originally). The two shows I am thinking about are ALL IN THE FAMILY with Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, and BARETTA with Robert Blake.
With the TV codes, anyone that used drugs on the shows pretty much had to die from them, even in later years of Police/Detective shows.
FYI:
High On Arrival, by Mackenzie Phillips is her autobiography, and it reportedly details how she shared booze and drugs with her hippie/musician father, and not just 'grass', but harder drugs. She even goes further to claim she 'shared a bed' with him over the period of years including their music tours, and perhaps even part of ODAAT. Drugs do strange things to people's brains, self-control, and even their basic thinking process.
And even worse, different users do not all have the same reactions to them.
In a fairly recent interview, Phillips said if she had one question for her father, it would be "What were you thinking?".
That book seems to be available for under $5 (including free shipping) from one of the popular auction/sale websites, so it should be priced about the same from used bookstores.
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snsurone
8 years ago
Thing is, we only have her word for it; John Philips is no longer alive to refute it.
I think I read somewhere that Mac's half-sister Bijou denied the allegations in the book.
I wonder what John's ex-wife Michelle thought of it.
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amyghost
8 years ago
There's also the sad fact that addicts will oftentimes say anything for sympathy, validation and attention, as well as playing out stories that they feel will give onlookers a reason to think that their addictions were foisted on them by their terrible experiences as apart from bad choices they themselves have made. Long-time addicts can get very good at these sorts of tales, and will often have them taken for truth by those who are in no position to know better. Could this have happened? Yes, anything's possible; but personally I've always taken Phillips' claims with something of a grain of salt.
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