Thanks for the help Kona....
I have quite the projected imagination about everything in life, not just a polygraph. When you spent 5 years as a teen, partying and not as an addict, just a once a week recreational vice...30 years ago but drinking to the point of drunk and taking whatever, you DON"T remember allot. Then, you GROW UP and gain a sense of what is really important in life and you leave the hazed years behind you. Memory from 30 years ago, even straight as a arrow, is only fragments of how we perceive them today, not how they, in reality really happened. Oh I know I never did heroin.
What I meant by brassiness is admitting, I did this and that.
There are allot of things, people won't admit to, not just drug use. I don't care what someone thinks of my lack of scruples or morals from 30 years ago BUT the last thing I would want to be called is a liar.
Some things have to be rationalized, like why in the world would I admit to trying LSD a handful of times and not something lesser, like mushrooms?
That's like admitting you killed one person.... but lying and saying that you never slapped, someone else.
I will say no, since I honestly have no specific recollection of taking a mushroom but I do remember they were around and I am pretty sure I saw them in a party atmosphere.
They are naturally concerned that you (me) tell the truth but care more about the last 10 or so years compared to 30 years ago.
I can't take away 3 decades ago and I won't hide it either.
I have had 100% clean driving record for my whole life and since my late teens, I even deplore the smell of alcohol on a person. I don't drink or do drugs. The smell of alcohol makes me gag, money wasted, as I say.
I should think the last 25 to 30 years of my life speak for something. I hope.
The things that went on back then would be unheard of today. Like, in the city I grew up in, they never arrested a female for DUI, they just followed you home and they tried to cop a piece and usually got one. I went to one cops house and I almost fell on the floor, I know I had been drinking allot then, I must of been 17 or so, but I remember bags of dope, bongs, pipes and stacks of cases of beer in his kitchen, all over the kitchen. I asked where it came from and he said 'non arrest confiscation'. Back then they stopped a car full of kids, took whatever was there and then let them go.
Unfortunately, this is how 'many cops' I knew, back then operated.
Cocaine and speed are run of the mill drugs? OMG they are so dangerous and addictive. They must be run of the mill today, but in the early and mid 70's pot, lsd and barbiturates were very run of the mill. They didn't have drugs like crystal ice, (speed right?) not that I'm aware of, tho I think some did speed.
Thanks for the help and letting me ramble on. I've had my nose in the books non stop, working on my BS in Law Enforcement mgmt and needed this break.
I'll close with this: shouda, couda wouda. You can't take it back. You can only move on in life.