March 4, 1997: Open Lines

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night thick with strange news, from catastrophic flooding along the Ohio River and deadly tornadoes in Arkansas to the doubling of pre-teen marijuana use in America. He muses on what is driving so many people, especially the young, toward escape through drugs, pointing to a loss of national purpose and the erosion of innocence as possible culprits. Callers deliver a wild range of stories. A man in San Diego claims a meteorite cracked the bottom of his… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-4-1997-open-lines