From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 01:48:06 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> Jimeny cricket spike. Of course there is a reason to have
> anti-drug laws. To prevent people from killing themselves
> and/or others! If I could take a drug to eliminate the
Nonsense. Some of the drugs on the list, like pot and various
psychedelics, don't kill, aren't addicting and have really
important therapeutic uses. The case against them was grossly
inflated from "Reefer Madness" on.
> pain I've been in the last few days I *would* do it.
> (Its a chronic back condition.) I'm trying to tread
> a thin line between lesser of two evils (the prescription
> medications and the non-presription medications) until I get
> to see a physician who is well enough informed to give
> me some alternate options. I'm even considering whether
> I should undergo back surgery to have a couple of disks
> fused and from what I've read about *that* proceedure its
> a *really* extreme solution for me to even be *thinking* about.
>
I am very sorry you are in a lot of pain.
> Now of course there are the recent reports on how much more
> brain damaging Extasy is (though Eugene has pointed out to
> me articles claiming this may be poor science -- so take
> them with a grain of salt).
>
Most of the kids in the US as well as we aging children of the
60s knows that you cannot trust government sponsored reports
about currently illegal drugs. We've been lied to too many times.
> And then of course I saw some recent TV program (Law and
> Order probably), about how some PCP pumped female actually
> started consuming (lord doesn't she know about Mad Cow Disease???)
> her female rival for her boyfriend's attention when an opportunity
> arose to do that (you wonder where the writers get these stories).
>
You watch that brain-rot? Sheesh! Drugs are definately a step
up if that is what you are doing to yourself. :-)
> Spike -- get this -- drugs are "usually" bad. They can
> destroy a reasonably rational thinking process on which the
> whole structure of society is based. They are risky
> for the people taking them and they are potentially
> risky for *you*!
No, drugs are not "usually" bad. Society is based on many
things, not much of it so "rational". Psychedelics do not
destroy rationality but they do take you, for a while, to what
is beyond what you thought was the border of the rational and
beyond the rational itself. Does that leave only "irrational".
Nope, I found there are other possibilities. There is the
post-rational. I spent quite a bit of time in my arguably
misspent youth finding out both personally and through working
switchboards and clinics and observing others. I have also read
quite a bit on the subject.
- samantha
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