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From: mmaryo@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Michael J Maryo (U))
Subject: Re: Help me
Organization: Univ. of Dayton, School of Engineering
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:57:54 GMT

In article <tholihan-270193112117@mac23.debartolo.lab.nd.edu.> tholihan@sbu.edu (tom) writes:
>i went on a REALLY bad trip on hash about ten years
>ago; it must have been contaminated with something. every few months out of
>the blue i'll start having 
>heart palpitations.  occasionally i lose the ability 
>to move my left arm or move my bowels for a few days.
>does anyone know how i can get help?

      You know, IMHO, you should probably see a doctor.  Something in your
body is screwed up.  A doctor could help you a little better than we could.

Mike Maryo    mmaryo@udecc.engr.udayton.edu
From: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: OK, it time to put yo
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:33:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 

 >liam%alehaus@brewich.hou.tx.us
 >Origin: The Alehaus -- Houston, TX --
 >     If you don't vote....DON'T BITCH
 >                                -unknown

If you can't bitch ... DON'T VOTE!!!

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From: mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
Subject: Re: marijuana paper
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 28 Jan 93 05:01:06 GMT

In article <1jssnmINNida@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> loweaa@g222-03.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (Anthony A Lowe) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.233519.10649@mercury.cair.du.edu>  
>rsteiger@denver.cba.du.edu writes:
>> 
>> Just received a small sample of hemp paper from Tree Free EcoPaper, and  
>I  

>> 
>> ..............................	Todd_Steigerwald@denver.cba.du.edu
>
>
>	You know it is nice that people are looking for ways to save trees  
>but unbeknownst to most is the fact that most of the tree's used to make  
>paper are grown for, you guessed it, to make paper. Not one rain forest is  
>going into your daily paper so never fear and read on! 

You'd be surprised. You're correct about the rain forest trees.
However, the processing of logs to make pulp for paper is one heck of
of a source of toxic waste.
From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: L-Dopa
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:30:24 GMT
Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
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Michael J Maryo (U) (mmaryo@udecc.engr.udayton.edu) wrote:
: 	Hey, just a simple addentum to the L-Dopa thing.  If you have ever
: seen the movie "Awakenings" (I believe that is the right movie), they used
: L-Dopa to temporarily treat some strange disease that some old people had,
: where they were basically inactive, unable to talk, or anything.  The 
: disease was compared to Parkinson's disease.  The movie was supposed to be
: based on a true story.  Was this possible that the drug that was used in real
: life was L-Dopa also?  The effects were kinda cool after a large dosage...
: shaking, violence, etc.  Anyone care to comment?     

  Yes, the movie (which I didn't see) was based on a true book, which is
well worth reading.  I think it was also called _Awakenings_, and was by the
doctor who recognized the analogy between the symptoms of extreme
Parkinsonism and the viral encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") which those
patients had, and thought of treating it with L-dopa.  It was not as happy a
story as I gather the movie made it out to be.  Some of the patients had
been in this "suspended" state for nearly 60 years, with no knowledge that
time was passing.
  If you can imagine the dimensions of human tragedy in being a young boy,
or girl, with your whole life ahead of you, and then one day -- literally --
waking up to discover that you are old and your whole life has gone by...
  -- Clifton

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From: locklin@titan.ucs.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN)
Subject: Re: Psilocybe cultivation and sterility
Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:02:44 GMT
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In article <1993Jan24.011549.15895@reed.edu> jcherney@reed.edu writes:
>Every post I see about growing shrooms includes a sterile growing medium.  Well, where do  
>they grow in the wild?  In used hay!  (That's cow shit.)  This is hardly a sterile medium.   
>So, is making ONLY psilocybes grow the only reason for sterility?  Assuming that one is  

Sort of. Things like bread mold and yeast are somewhat more robust than the
psilocybe mycellium & will take over the culture if left alone (non-sterile).

While you get psilocybes growing on non-sterile horse-shit in nature, the
conditions for growth of the mycellium must fall in a rather specific
range of temperature, Ph, chemical composition & etc. Also, as stated above,
the mycellium must spread through the culture (shit) before some other organism
comes to dominate this growth medium.  It would be rather
difficult to grow mushrooms from scratch on horseshit (though it is done); it
is much easier to have a nice source of mycellium (grown on sterile grain)
to mix with the horse-doo that will rapidly spread through the medium (before
other microbes make it impossible for psilocybe mycellium to grow there).

>capable of recognizing what's shroom and what's not, is there any need for the sterile  
>environment?

I think this is a minor worry compared to having your growth medium overwhelmed
by smelly bacteria & yeast.

-Scott

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From: an6454@anon.penet.fi
Subject: no subject (file transmission)
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.drugs
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:02:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan18.727747426.AA05910@urchin.fidonet.org>
NaChaSh writes:
>In article <1993Jan18.235323.26780@fuug.fi>,
>an6454@anon.penet.fi writes:

>> This was given to me by a well-known mycologist from
>> Vancouver, Canada  after a brief discussion I had with him
>> on the "Lepiota Peele".  

>Can you tell me if the species Lepiota peele does, itself, manifest  the
>psychactive effects that Mr. Peele claims?

It appears not.  Peele gives only anecdotal evidence regarding the psychoactive properties of this species--see Mycotaxon v. 43 pp. 461 to 469.  Incidently, this is not a new species, it was first described by Hume in 1943 and is called lepiota humei.  For pretty pictures, see _Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms_ under its proper name.

>a> The only  good reference on
>a> growing psylocibe mushrooms is Jeff Chilton and Paul
>a> Stamets' "The Mushroom Cultivator" published by the
>a> Homestead Press.  

>I have found the out of print _Magic Mushroom Cultivation_ by Dr.  Steven H.
>Pollock to be an excellent reference for alternative growing  techniques,
>especially the brown rice technique.

>Does anyone have any idea if a new updated edition of _The Mushroom 
>Cultivator_ will be released?

"Alternative" usually refers to using a substrate (the stuff you use to grow the 'shrooms) different from sterilized straw or Rye grain.  The thing you have to watch out for with different substrate material is contamination.  Mycelia are not very picky eaters but some major-league irritating contaminants like rich substrates.  My concern about the brown rice technique would be that the grains support too many organisms besides cubensis mycelium.  If you're serious about growing, grow out (on Rye grain) as

 many jars of spawn as you can (good luck, this is the hard part) then go to a farm supply store and get a bale of WHEAT straw (about $10) and cut (or mow) it into 3-4" chunks and sterilize it in a pressure cooker.  When your spawn jars are grown out, using careful sterile techniques, inoculate the sterilized wheat straw--the mycelium really like it and it produces far less in terms of contamination than even trays of Rye grain.  Grow out, case and treat it right, then watc!
h large stands of Cubensis appear!
 Also, the nice thing about the Chilton-Stamets book is that it has a lot of material on contamination.  It's still available (at least in Vancouver--check out Banyen Books 2671 West Broadway, Vancouver B.C. 604-732-7912 (they do mail orders)).  Paul Stamets is apparently writing a new book dealing with a larger number of species.

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From: megazone@coal.WPI.EDU (MegaZone)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: YOU FUCKERS
Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:12:35 GMT
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In article <1993Jan28.052149.2592@nmsu.edu> nwoodard@dante.nmsu.edu (WOODARD) writes:
>Drug Free and PROUD of it.

I have a serious question for you. Please answer honestly:

Do you: drink alchohol, smoke, or drink beverages with caffeine?

If so you are not drug free. The only reason drugs 'harm' anyone is the
politics that makes it impossible to disseminate information about safe
practices. Many 'illegal' drugs are no worse than 'legal' ones, in fact many
are safer to use. I'd rather see a party with everyone smoking pot than one
with everyone drinking. But it isn't likely to happen until it is legalized.
Prohibition has never worked, and it never will. The harder you fight to stop
use the more money there is to be made selling, and therefore the more 
encouragement to violate the law. Prohibition thereby encourages the drug
trade.
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From: nsabados@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Nick Sabadosh)
Subject: Re: LSD reference in the Simpsons
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:12:40 GMT

saumure@bnr.ca (Roch Saumure) writes:

>Lisa drank some 'beer' in the amusement park tunnel, and sees tracers, 
>hallucinations, proclaims to be 'The Lizard Queen'...

	The tracers thing was really blatant!  And if I recall they even
	had 'trippy' music in the background.

>Funny what they can get away with in cartoons these days.

	No kidding.  It was quite graphic.  My wife and I looked at eachother
	in amazement.  Bet we'll be hearing about this one from the WoD gang
	any day now.

Nick
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From: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Kid on 48 Hours
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:30:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 

  >It may be disingenuous to say that "I'm not sure about the drug
   war anymore" buy do they deserve any better?

The War on Drugs is OVER - Drugs won.

Like VietNam, it's time to go home.

Loki the Irksome Trickster
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:32:39 CST
From: John Schulien <U21187@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Anyone else watch the Simpsons?

What I want to know is ...

Where do I get some of that boat-ride water!

:-)

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: domnatr@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kane)
Subject: Re: Robitussin
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:36:55 GMT

Dear Eli --

substrate:  a chemically specific bonding structure which only bonds with
	    acceptable sites

collecting: getting together

surface:    top of something

brain:      organ which controls electrical transmission of thoughts
	    (see 'synapses')

synapses:   neuroelectrical signals related to conscious thought, motor
	    responses, general mental activity

transmission: the act of a substance or concept travelling

pathways:   methods a substance moves through or from (see 'transmission')
 
synaptic:   of or referring to 'synapses' (see 'synapses')


So --

If a Robitussin or alchol SUBSTRATE bonds to a SUITABLE SITE on the SURFACE
of the BRAIN, it significantly changes the PATHWAYS of the SYNAPTIC 
TRANSMISSIONS, as well as the SYNAPSES themselves.  If enough of the SUBSTRATES
COLLECT on the SURFACE of the BRAIN, they alter the PATHWAYS and SYNAPSES in/of
the TRANSMISSIONS sufficiently so that the BRAIN sends faulty information to
the nervous and sensory systems.

Got it?  Good.  I didn't think all those 'brain-related' terms were that hard.

Before sending the previous post off, I (a Chem Engineering major - not that
it matters that much) had discussed the physiological effects of alcohol and
physical suppressants with two friends (BioChem and Pre-Med Bio) and had 
figured out in a general sense what was happening (physically) behind the
agreeable (mental) symptoms.

The above complicated brainrelated discussion, by the way, also partially
explains why drinking water before and after getting in on a really good drunk
helps you recover more quickly and lessens the hangover's severity somewhat.
You're replacing some of those SUBSTRATES with water (that's H2O) molecules,
which is what should be there in the first place!  This helps correct
SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSIONS.

If I could remove the 'not documented' from my previous post, I would;  but 
it's up now.  The whole point was to gather (COLLECT) comments about the use
of Robitussin as a narcotic substance.  And maybe, if anybody in the 
reading distribution had any specific physiological knowledge, get some
discussion going about the drugs themselves, and not just their symptoms.
NOT to invite mindless cutdowns.

The point in mentioning the SYNAPTIC alterations was that a lot of drugs
DON'T do that.  They interfere directly with the nervous system -- preventing
axons and dendrites (which cause pain, involuntary muscle response, etc) from
operating exactly as they should.

I'm still welcoming comments regarding Robitussin or what have you in the
original article.

But not onesupmanship games.

*I* thought before I posted.

Jerk.

Flame off.

__________________________

Kane
domnatr@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

__________________________

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From: yerx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Peanuts
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:35:10 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

     This may sound like just another B.S. banana-peel story, but a close
friend of mine claims that if you smoke finely-chopped peanut shells (just the
shells, not the nuts) it will produce mild sensations of euphoria.  Is this for
real?  If anyone has an answer, I would appreciate it.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: bortoli@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (roberto bortoli)
Subject: Re: LSD in the CIA??
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:23:02 GMT

I'm a student at milan's university,my name is roberto and i'm interested in all
the information you have on this topics.
	    E-mail :bortoli@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

	    thank you
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From: kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J. Kruse)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: rush?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:07:31 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
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aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:

> It can be either amyl nitrite or butyl nitrite. The amyl nitrite is
>usually iso-amyl nitirite, but I'm not sure about butyl nitrite. It could
>be n-butyl or sec-butyl, but I don't think they use tert-butyl for this.
> It's a vasoDILATOR. It causes the blood vessels in the head to dilate,
>therby reducing the pressure to the head because oflack od arterial tone,
>causing that dizzy, "like-you-got-up-off-the-couch-too-quickly" feeling.
>(Same effect really...) Not good for asthma sufferers or people who get
>migraine headaches frequently.

I believe you are right about the substance being either amyl or butyl
nitrate, but the effects you describe are not consistant with my own
use of the drug "RUSH"  (a little red bottle with the letters RUSH and
and yellow lightning bolt on it)   I tried this drug in high school and
found that it caused or at least seemed to cause an immense INCREASE in
blood pressure or at least blood to the head.   All of the users of it
flushing of the face.   For obvious reasons inhalants such as these are
to be avoided.  (If you desire a long and happy life !)



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From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Subject: Re: LAUGHING GAS
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:51:39 GMT


Nitrous is great for sex if you are almost complete strangers, so
there's some tension between both of you. For stabilized couples it
probably does nothing very much, unless they're not very open about
their sex life and feelings.

Just my personal theory and experience, though.

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From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:57:18 GMT
Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland


In article 1@vax.sonoma.edu, mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu () writes:
>> I have heard and read in this newsgroup that marijuana can cause some 
>> relief to asthma sufferers. I mentioned this to someone else, and he flat 
>> ... [Some text omitted]
>> Can smoking marijuana help asthma sufferers, and if so, how?

>   I've had asthma since the age of 3years....I'm 38 now....I have 
>found that Marijuana causes an allergic reaction in my lungs as does 
>cocaine, the later being more severe. The only relief I ever got for
>it was from speed, meth crystal specifically, and speed mixed with
>heroin.  However the heroin usually just made the nasty effects of the
>speed feel ok.  
>   I'm still looking for that right combination of drugs to find relief.
>david

Heavens. Have you tried using Becotide? Works fine for me.
Then there's always garlic, swimming, saunas, massage, hanging upside-down...

MJ never seemed to do much for my asthma, but it's difficult to tell.
On the other hand, the two places I've had the least trouble with asthma
were Holland and Thailand (even smoking Krung-Thep and Falling Rain as well :-)
Hmmm.... I wonder whether regular consumption of hash cookies would help.

-michael
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From: kisaacso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kevin "Zonker" Isaacson)
Subject: Re: FedEx and UPS
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:19:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.045458.21942@fuug.fi>, an2509@anon.penet.fi would have us believe:
[] I know it's a really bad idea to send drugs through the US mail, but how
[] about Federal Express and United Postal Service?  I was thinking that if you
[] send it overnight via FedEx, first it probably doesn't spend enough time in
[] their posession that it would be economical for them to check it and second,
[] being a private company, why would they have drug dogs at all (unless they
[] were required to by law).  But I thought I'd ask here because it's better
[] to be safe than sorry.  Any comments would be appreciated.
[] 
[] 

I can't speak for FedEx, but as a UPS employee (sorter) I can tell you
that the amount of checking that occurs, at least for regular ground
shipments, is absolute zero.  Your package goes from the UPS shipper,
to a UPS hub, onto a truck to another hub, onto the cute little brown
van from there, and to the addressee's house.  We process
approximately 150,000 pieces of mail each night on my shift alone and
trust me, the only thing that anybody notices is the address.  Unless your 
package has OBVIOUS signs of something illegal (like reeking of skunk bud or 
seeds falling out the cracks) it should encounter no problems.  Important
safety tip, though:  Make SURE that it is well packed with NO chance
of opening even a little bit during shipment.  We are required to
ensure that every package reaches its destination sealed up nice and
tight and if a package comes through that is torn open even a little
bit it is sent to the damage clerk who then repackages it (with the
obvious implications).  Note that this process is only for ground
shipments, I can't speak for the air operations.  


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From: pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares)
Subject: Re: What happened to Bob Cain?
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:11:26 GMT

machman@stein.u.washington.edu (The Machman) writes:
>andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:

>>And what about Paul Hagar?

>Paul Hager is a busy man, who has long periods of absence bracketed by 
>lots of informative postings in here.  He'll be back. [...]

	Note that he doesn't read or post to alt.drugs, just
talk.politics.drugs ...

-Peter

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From: ccarroll@hdsc-calm.ssc.af.mil (Chris Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: morphine/heroin question
Date: 27 Jan 1993 09:01:13 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Could someone email me with info or stats concerning morphine?

Are morphine and heroin the same thing, what are the differences,
similarities, etc.

Thanx, 
cHris
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From: victory@fubar.cs.montana.edu
Subject: Re: Re: Acid Music (sorry to net.vets)
Originator: victory@fubar.cs.montana.edu
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:00:00 GMT

In a previous article df@sdf.lonestar.org (daniel finster) writes:

>>Of course Floyd.  But I'm pretty into noise bands.  I've had my mind blown 

>Why is it _ALWAYS_ Pink Floyd?  I notice you get more creative later down
>in your post, but Floyd gets so _BORING_!  (I know, i used to listen to
>[rest of message deleted!]

I have found that Allman Brothers sound pretty cool, tripping or not.
Especially "Live at Ludlow Garage" with the 44 minute version of 'Mountain Jam'.
Another album is "Blues from the Rainforest", by Mearl Saunders with Jerry
Garcia.  Then, of course, I have never found that Pink Floyd gets boring,
except for "The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon" (I'll admit, they get pretty
old!!).

victory@fubar.cs.montana.edu

"One thing is for certain, Mice are not monogamous.
If they were, they'd be monogamice!" - quote from Blake Edwards' Skin Deep


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From: jimfost@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jim Foster)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.tasteless,alt.conspiracy,rec.pyrotechnics
Subject: Re: The Anarchist Cookbook
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:44:40 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey) writes:

>I thought Paladin Press put out the Anarchist Cookbook.  Anyone know
>if this is true?

My copy is published by Barricade Books. Paladin Press does put out a LOT of
books that an anarchist would find interesting, but I don't think they produce
the Anarchist Cookbook. There is the possibility that they distribute it, however.
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