Thanks for expanding on the “jonesing” theory. I hadn’t even considered the Jonestown Massacre as a likely suspect, although it does fit.

So jonesing is also tripping out now as well? I suppose it’s logical. I do wish you Americans would slow down. It seems like every other day there’s yet another expression I haven’t heard of. Still, I suppose it keeps me off the streets.

Yes, I guessed it was something like that, but I’m always irritated when I can’t find *any* corroboration written down somewhere. Mrs Joad already thinks I make a lot of this stuff up!

The phrase has evolved and I should also add that we Americans, with our silly us of words like “New Year’” and “on Christmas”, also use Jonesing as a current state of mind. For example: “I’m jonesing right now”. To say, “I’m tripping out”. But most often it is followed by “for”, as you cited above, and thus indicates a craving or desire for something But it doesn’t have to be drugs. “I’m Jonesing to read the next issue of Together, for a bad example.