From: Holger Wagner (Holger.Wagner@lrz-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Feb 05 1998 - 06:51:19 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
[...]
> ocular pressure and bronchodilation. The last could probably explain a
> bit of why people dry out; it is also possible that dry mouth is
> simply another result of the sympathetic activity that also causes the
> tachycardia. I would also not rule out the effect of smoking itself.
Smoking itself probably does not play a major role since eating hemp
(well, any psychoactive drug made of hemp) has about the same drying
effect as smoking...
later,
Holger
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