Dad’s Vietnam Drug Talk

My Dad's high school "drug talk" with me was just a story about two guys in his platoon who smoked weed and fell asleep outside the wire, and the VC slit their throats and cut off their dicks. So whenever I smoked weed in Cave Creek, Arizona, I always kept watch for the Viet Cong

A tweet recounts a father’s terrifying anti-drug story about Vietnam soldiers who smoked weed, fell asleep, and were killed by the Viet Cong. The punchline is that the child took the story literally and later watched for the Viet Cong whenever smoking weed in Arizona, making the warning absurdly believable and paranoid.

• @antichirst / 21771 2026-02-18