what a load!   Maybe the initial reaction should say it all.  he was not a U of O student when his classics were written, and he was stoned to the bone most the time when writing.... He was who  he was and maybe let the perfect among us even consider his drug use a barrier. go back in history and erase the cocaine users, the opium users, the speed users, the drinkers, the junkies - all those with mental illness from the arts. and what do we have? 
Archie Comics~
  what a load!