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From: kch@calmasd.Prime.COM (Ken Heshler)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: WOD Advertisement I saw on TV - i.e. LAME
Keywords: WOD LAME
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:49:11 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA

Just for the heck of it, I was watching TV a few weeks ago, and came across
this stupid commercial for the WOD campaign. After thinking about it, I had
to post. I usually am just a looker, and very rarely post, unless I have a
intriguing question to pose, or whatever.

Background:
  Cartoon characters one male and one female, female is in bed, male is in
  her shower. Ramblings from the female about what happened that night and
  that she got wasted or boozed, or whatever, and the male is wondering who's
  shower he's in and how he got there. She is worrying about who is in her
  shower too.

  Then they both go into this frantic rage about AIDS, and the final title
  by the announcer is that they are releived because cartoon characters don't
  get AIDS, but people do.

  The lame part of this whole cartoon commercial is the TIE they use to get
  the WOD people in bed with the AIDS people.

  Here's the sales pitch:

  Get High.
  Get Stupid
  Get Aids.
  and my little touch to this ad: GET REAL
  
  IMHO: I don't think the first thing they say does what the second thing
  they say, in other words, no TIE between them. Now I do admit the second
  and third relate, but from friends of mine, they have never gotten soooo
  wasted as to forget self-preservation...
  
  Just my thoughts, and these thoughts do not stand up in court or anything
  other than the soapbox I am standing on currently
  
  Thank you....


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From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (gogo is insane)
Subject: Who's Who of the InterNet
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 05:10:38 GMT



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WHO are you?

Hi.  I publish the FutureCulture FAQ file, which is a self-described
"somewhat definitive guide to resources bringing you the future."  It
is basically an ever-growing guide to the new edge, technoculture,
cybperculture, etc., particular the relevant on-line aspects of the
aforementioned subculture(s)

One of the sections is a "who's who" of on-line 'celebrities', and
appears in the file like this:

	V. Important Person		Musician/Author 
	John Q. NetPublic		Hacker/Writer

So, if you are someone who would like to be mentioned in the file (no
email addrresses are given out), or if you know of someone who you
feel garners recognition, please send relevant info. (including a
basic summary of credentials in-case I fall knowledge-impaired) to:

      ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu

I am looking for on-line people from all walks of life, including:
hackers (in the underground sense), writers, magazine editors,
artists, musicians, DJs, NetGurus, authors, or any other
characteristic that might seperate onesself from the mass.net.public.

Thanks in advance.

--

    ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu	        FutureCulture:  In/f0rmation
    ahawks@mindvox.phantom.com		future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu

Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: THC production in MJ.
From: Russel_Mcauliffe@equinox.gen.nz (Russel Mcauliffe)
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:01:35 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks
Summary: 
Keywords: 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Can anyone tell me what causes/stimulates MJ to produce THC? Is it produced
in response to light or to certain chemicals? Would the type of lighting
(flourescent vs. incandescent) noticably effect the production of THC?

Cheers,
    RJ.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Subject: Re: What drug is Internet most similar to?
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:07:29 GMT

n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>jcherney@envy.reed.edu (Joel Alexander Cherney) writes:
>>David A. Honig writes
>>> >What drug is Internet most similar to?
>>> Alcohol.  There's lots of it, and it makes you stupid.
>
>>Well... 
>>LSD: The Net is nothing at all like reality and alters your perception of everything.
>>Pot: You lose track of time while you're on it.
>>Speed: You stay awake for LONG periods of time while you are on it.
>
>Khat:
>"This stuff makes crack look like candy".    (Lard Copy)

*"CAT"*

Phenylpropanolamine (norephedrine) on oxidation gives Cathenone which
is the active chemical in Khat.  Ephedrine (or pseudoephedrine) on
oxidation gives methylcathenone (or methcathenone).  N-Methylephedrine
on oxidation gives Dimethylcathenone (or N,N-dimethylaminopropiophenone).
 
Methcathenone is "CAT" which is the drug which hit the papers (and
presumably "Lard Copy") recently with all the "it makes crack look
like candy" hysteria.  Including claims that it lasts about 4 days
per dose, is more addicting than heroin, and is frequently cut with
draino as a "CATalyst" (*giggle*). 

I fired off my article on this to Shulgin for his records, so I can't
give you a reference.

Khat as far as my impression goes is a fairly mild stimulant -- something
between caffiene and d-amphetamine (unless someone has some accurate
info...?) 
 
-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu
  "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
                                      -- Robert Anton Wilson
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 13:14:55 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

smidt@fy.chalmers.se (Peter Smidt) writes:

> In article <92348.143452U56673@uicvm.uic.edu> U56673@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
> >There is a leathal dose of ANYTHING (with the exception of air).
> 
> Wrong. Air to is lethal. At 80 meters depth divers can be intoxicated
> by normal compressed air, because the partial pressure of oxygen
> is so high that it starts to make some *very* rapid oxidation of
> your nerves and also breaking down the cells. 

Does anyone know who first discovered this fact. [The fact didn't need
discovering - it was always there.]


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gaspar@inf.ethz.ch (gaspo)
Subject: Re: The BOOK: Psychedelics Encyclopedia  3rd edition
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:01:56 GMT

In article <9212142322.aa18484@Paris.ics.uci.edu> honig@ruffles.ICS.UCI.EDU (David Honig) writes:
>
>is out.  1991.  by Peter Stafford.  420 pages, 200 illustrations, softcover.

Is it only available from the AHF? or is it generally available on the
market? if so, ISBN # ?

--gaspo.


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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: On PBS: "Brainstorm: The Truth about Your Brain on Drugs"
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:39:13 GMT

Tonight, my local PBS station is broadcasting:

"A 3-2-1 Contact Extra
 Brainstorm: The Truth About Your Brain on Drugs.
 The facts about the effects of substances like alcohal, nicotine, and
 concaine and other drugs on the brain and the body are examined."

In Urbana it will show at 7pm on WILL-TV. Check your local listings.

- Carl




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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: US takes WOSD to Somalia
From: civl097@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:15:54 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Radio NZ reported this morning that a US marine commander in Somalia
said that Khat was considered contraband and was being confiscated.

-- 

Brandon Hutchison,University of Canterbury,Christchurch
                  New Zealand

Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Subject: Re: The ungrateful dead (grass doesn't kill)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
    <1gknajINNm14@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> <lisjmbINNqn@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
    <1gmqdvINNke6@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:43:58 GMT

In article <1gmqdvINNke6@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (John Donald Collier) writes:
>The same way as a person who dies of internal bleeding after
>being hit by a car was caused to die by being hit by a car.
>I don't know the details of the case reported, but the Le Dain
>commission was very reliable. I expect that the person would
>not have eaten so much had they not been stoned. That is 
>a pretty normal sense of "due to".

I can see the headlines now:

MARIJUANA FINALLY SHOWN TO CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE -- CARELESS LONGSHOREMAN'S
HEAD CRUSHED BY 10-TON BALE OF HEMP

:^)

Keith Lewis             klewis@mitre.org          "Mr. Cheap"
I don't dance to music; music dances to me.  Email me for my PGP key.
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: davidson@che.che.tulane.edu ()
Subject: LSD Question
Organization: Chem. Eng. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Distribution: alt.drugs
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:26:55 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-705]: che.che.tulane.edu

   Just a couple of quick questions about LSD for a FOAF. First of all
what is the 'shelf life' of LSD, and is there any methods used to keep
it 'fresher' ect.  Like keeping it dry, air tight bag, well wrapped foil
ect.  Secondly does it matter if you drop on am empty stomach or not, my
FAOF has really had mixed experiences.

   Thanks for the help.

mark
davidson@che.che.tulane.edu
tcmn@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu
 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
Subject: Re: DARE YOU TO TRY THIS
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:01:26 GMT



--
Mike Harris 			>>>>> In stereo where available <<<<< 
InterNet: mikeh@tenet.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: SHEEP CORPSES MAKE THE BEST LAYS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:20:41 GMT

lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) writes:
: 
: Alcohol and Tobacco cause more deaths because...  a:  alcohol causes liver
: cirrocic and car accidents while b: tobacco causes lung cancer and other
: lung problems.  Cocaine only kills 6,000 out of 5,000,000 yearly users (a
: smaller ratio than EtOH or tobacco) because it doesn't have nearly the
: long-term toxicity that EtOH and tobacco do, and it doesn't cause people
: to fuck up when they drive...

And, if the drug were available in known dosages of known purity, many
of those 6000 deaths/year would not occur.

Bill
From: BoB@mwowm.com
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Strychnine
Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:02:33 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

The LD-50 of strychnine is 5 mg/kg.  In other words, for the average human to DI

oops too much 'frop

any way, for the average human to DIE from strychnine ingestion, about 320 mg of 
of strychnine would have to be ingested.  That represents 3200 average hits of acid, assuming they were PURE strychnine.

Now, since a) lsd isn't ever gonna be pure poison, b) no one would ever do 1/100 as much as that anyway, and c) all this rat poison talk is pure Urban Legend,

no one has anything to fear from blotter acid.

-J.R. "BoB" Dobbs
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:03:06 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <lilf61INN8so@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>
>Come on, what's all this bullshit, and why do I have to spell
>it out?
>
>There is no "lethal dose" of LSD.

However, there is a recent case where a woman slipped LSD into her
husband's food and he died of a heart attack.  He had a weak heart
and probably thought that he was going crazy.

>There is no "lethal dose" of marijuana.

I read a report where some researchers tried to determine the lethal
dose of marijuana in mice.  There tongue in cheek conclusion was that
the lethal dose for humans was 2 pounds of marijuana per pound of
body weight.  There was a quote to the effect that "if you eat a piece
of hashish the size of a couch, you will probably die".

Of course, you can also "od" on water.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Subject: Re: LSD absorpstion through the skin (was Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken)
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:40:10 GMT

Yup, Hofmann's is just an opinion and we do need a bit more proof.  Anyone
actually experience this?  (Remember that you could get a little on your
finger which could contact your mouth or whatever, which doesn't count...)

As an aside, aspartame sweetness was discovered in a similar manner by a
chemist touching his hand to his mouth accidentally, after having synthesized
it.

-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu
  "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
                                      -- Robert Anton Wilson
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: khat
From: blom@husc15.harvard.edu
Date: 16 Dec 92 07:42:02 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

OK.  Look, people.  The thing many of you are calling khat is not khat.  Khat
is the stimulant prepared from Catha Edulis, and it is hardly all that much
stronger than caffeine.  This other synthetic chemical is something else
entirely.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: The ungrateful dead (grass doesn't kill)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:17:39 GMT

In article <ringo.724436061@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> ringo@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Ringo) writes:
>wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp) writes:
>
>>>> There is no "lethal dose" of marijuana.
>>>
>
>>Finally, the point I was making was that it *is* horseshit to say that
>>there is no lethal dose of marijuana. I stand by that: it's like saying
>>there's no lethal dose of alcohol, or tobacco, or sugar. The fact that the
>>lethal dose cannot be feasibly consumed in the case of marijuana is
>>neither here nor there...
>
>Then what on earth was your original point??? That there is, in fact, a
>lethal dose of marijuana? There's a lethal dose of water, there is a

You got it in one. There *is* a lethal dose of marijuana. That's it, that's
all. End of story. That's all she wrote. The fat lady's sung. There is no
more. It's over...

Get the picture?

The Wisp. [shuffling off this mortal thread...]
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:14:17 GMT

rock-opera.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan the Witchling) writes:
: In article <1992Dec14.063941.16953@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: >
: >: for not doing my homework... me thinks that the slighly rude (at least to me)
: >: graduate student who spend most of his time in the library looking for ways to
: >: make his research better should stop roasting his undergraduate contemporary wh
: >: o never has a need to go to the library.  this is just what i think is happenin
: >
: >And never has the need to use a dictionary either - apparently.

: 	Spelling flames are really lame.  Is this all you could come up with
: to use as an attack on the boy?

It is not a flame - it was a comment on a simple (and very easy to verify)
fact. 

If I were to attack the person, I would call him a brain-dead idiot, or
something similar. I might even use phrases such as "the boy".

The person was making incorrect postings - based on what appears to be 
conjecture - maybe because he "never has a need to go to the library."
After the postings were rebutted, he posted the above bitch. I completed
the bitch - since he left something out.

There are a number of very competent organic chemists, who post here. Bitching
about people actually doing research to verify their facts is, to me, more
than slightly rude.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Chromium What ?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:08:11 GMT

eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
: >Only exercise can do that.
: 
: Well, I disagree.  p-Nitrophenol does a pretty good job at that by relaxing
: the proton gradient across the mitochondrial inner membrane.  The cell uses
: this gradient to make ATP.  By allowing the protons to slip back across,
: the mitochontria just sit there treadmilling, expending energy, while making
: no ATP.  There was a celebrated case in British munition factories in which
: the women working in the factory would experience dramatic weight loss.  This
: phenomenon was eventually traced to p-nitrophenol which is used in the manufacture
: of explosives (picric acid, I think).  After the war, the compound found its way
: into diet pills state side.  They were eventually taken off the market when 
: their toxicity was recognized.  
: 
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
: TTGATTGCTAAACACTGGGCGGCGAATCAGGGTTGGGATCTGAACAAAGACGGTCAGATTCAGTTCGTACTGCTG
: Eric E. Snyder                            
: Department of MCD Biology              ...making feet for childrens' shoes.
: University of Colorado, Boulder   
: Boulder, Colorado 80309-0347
: LeuIleAlaLysHisTrpAlaAlaAsnGlnGlyTrpAspLeuAsnLysAspGlyGlnIleGlnPheValLeuLeu
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: dwdyer@eskimo.com (Wayne Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: US takes WOSD to Somalia
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:44:55 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-

civl097@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>Radio NZ reported this morning that a US marine commander in Somalia
>said that Khat was considered contraband and was being confiscated.

This raises a question that I haven't seen addressed:

IS KHAT USE ILLEGAL UNDER SOMALIAN LAW???

All I've heard is the US Press and TV complaiing about "drugs" -- and that
some worry about it coming over here (gimme a break...)
 
-- 
Wayne Dyer, aka   || "I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them.
dwdyer@eskimo.com ||  The will to a system is a lack of integrity."  F.W.N.
-- 
Wayne Dyer, aka   || "I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them.
dwdyer@eskimo.com ||  The will to a system is a lack of integrity."  F.W.N.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.folklore.urban
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:16:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.095345.14008@lunatix.uucp> chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.181635.21958@ultb.isc.rit.edu> rxg3321@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.X. Getter) writes:
>>>
>>>There is no "lethal dose" of marijuana.
>>
>>I imagine it carries the same or similar potential risk to cigarettes.
>>
>
>If you are referring to nicotine, then yes, it DOES carry a MUCH-MUCH-MUCH 
>greater risk than does LSD.  Nicotine is poison.  I believe (not sure) that 
>anything more than a drop of pure nicotine will kill you.

Yes, nicotine is an awful poison.  A drop of _pure_ nicotine has been
known to kill a person in 15 minutes.  I don't have a reference on
that, though...

But think about it for a second...  if you swallow even a little juice
from chewing tobacco, you are not going to be a happy camper.  Even if
you smoke a couple of cigarettes in a row fairly quickly you'll get
nausea (unless you've been chain smoking for 15 years...).  It's sort
of your body's way of saying "I hate this shit!"



andrew
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: DANGER: Paralysis from Homebrew!
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:02:15 GMT

In article 23554@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>Interesting blend of fact with imagination. Wonder why they chose home
>brew - instead of marijuana or lsd or one of the other "nasty" drugs.

Probably heard the "homebrewed heroin -> Parkinson's disease" and
dropped the "heroin" part instead of the "homebrewed" part.

gak

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From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:30:06 GMT

In article <jeremy.724401385@chao> jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes:
>In <92348.143452U56673@uicvm.uic.edu> <U56673@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>
>>There is a leathal dose of ANYTHING (with the exception of air)  You can OD and
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Oxygen is toxic, has narcotic effects and is possibly carcinogenic
>(in high doses, over extended periods of time).
>

Absolutely. Nitrogen is an anaesthetic at high pressures, too: hence the
helium/oxygen mixture used by divers when going deep. Injecting air, as has
already been pointed out, is definitely not good for you...

Then again, if you don't exhale when surfacing from a dive, you can look
really silly (with your lungs hanging out...).

Overbreathing can kill you, too. Although, that's reaching a bit, 'cos the
mechanism there is actually blowing off too much carbon dioxide and
dangerously altering ECF pH...

Later,

The Wisp. [standing too close to a compressed air cylinder in a fire...]
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