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From: chmilar@Apple.COM (Michael Chmilar)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Naked Lunch
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:19:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

>djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
>>Saw Naked Lunch last night.  Didn't get it.

>>But what do I know?  Anyone read the book?
>>Have a clue to share?  Did Burroughs really shoot his wife?

The movie is more about Burroughs writing Naked Lunch, and is somewhat
biographical, with some variously symbolic and metaphorical stuff thrown
in - the symbols and metaphors being taken from WSB's writing and applied
back into his own life.

He did shoot his wife accidentally, in Mexico City, while drunkenly playing
William Tell with a pistol.

He did work as an exterminator.  He was a junky, mostly with opiates.  He
did go to Tangiers "for the boys", the drugs, escape, and possibly to write.
Some of the characters in the movie were obviously based on real people,
like the pair who portrayed Ginsberg and Kerouac.  Some of the Tangiers
characters might be based on Paul Bowles (the other writer/agent) and other
people.  A little research would probably uncover these references.

If you read some of WSB's books, and discover his themes and hobbyhorses,
the movie makes reasonable sense.
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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Availability of chlorpromazine and hypodermic dart guns?
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:40:18 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Aug19.213129.27633@microsoft.com> alane@microsoft.com (Alan Ezekiel) writes:

>If there is any drug which (1) stops nearly instantly, (2) is
>effective in the _same_ dosage on people of widely different
>body mass, (3) causes no serious or lethal damage to the target,
>and (4) is reliable, we might be able to construct such a device.
>But I am unaware of any drug which meets those parameters.

It's called a nine-millimeter with Glazers. Ok, 3 out of 4.



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From: jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Johnny Potseed! (EVERYONE! PLEASE READ! And pass on the word!)
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:09:51 -0500

In article <1992Aug18.200303.6326@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
> bowman@reed.edu (Eric Bowman (bobo)) writes:
> : 
> : I don't know about Ohio, but on the west coast most fields are discovered
> : from the air, using high-tech IR equipment which detects a heat signature
> : unique to cannabis.
> 
> The heat signature is not unique. They find the stuff because it is different
> from that of the covering plants, and is usually planted in what the government
> determines is a "suspicious arrangement" of plants.
> 
> Bill

	Just imagine ... purely a thought problem you know ... that
	lots of dedicated people didn't bother to plant FIELDS of
	that certian weed, but instead just planted it here and
	there - in empty lots, in unused ditches, in the neighbors
	back yards, in tracts of woods - just a few seeds at each 
	location. The theme here is making the weed uncontrollable.
	Making it so easy to get that anyone who wants to try a
	little can find some without much trying. Concentrated
	production is easy to detect, easy to eliminate. Dispersed
	cultivation - not for profit - cannot be dealt with.

	I recall something that Abbie Hoffman was alledgedly involved
	with way-back-when. Thousands of first class letters were
	mailed out at random to NYC residents. Each contained a
	small joint and instructions in its use. The recipients
	weretold they had a unique opportunity to discover the
	facts for themselves. Word was that Jimi Hendrix paid for
	the stunt. It was apparently a major propaganda coup. 
	Just imagine ... :-)

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From: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: Relafen(nabumetone)
Reply-To: labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:20:21 GMT


I've just gotten a script for Relafen.  I've read the prescribing
information and know this is intended to help control chronic pain
from arthritis.  I'm trying this for Phantom Limb Pain.  I've tried
numerous other drugs/therapies for this so don't suggest any unless 
they are extremely new!  

Can someone tell me if they've heard of Relafen being used for 
phantom limb pain?  Any success?  What would be the downside of
long term use?  



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Bell Northern Research          |   Part of Northern Telecom 
Richardson, Texas               |   i'm really in Texas
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No opinions herein expressed have anything to do with the opinions 
of Bell Northern Research or Northern Telecom or CIA or NSA ...
These statements are mine and mine alone, well i guess my wife 
agrees with some of them?
From: "dave russell" <dave.russell@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: hydroponics
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:28:29 EST
Reply-To: "dave russell" <dave.russell@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Can someone suggest a good source of hydroponic equipment to get
started.  I would also like to know if anyone knows anything about
or has used a "Phototron" - a fully self contained hydroponics 
system.

Any replies would be greatly appreciated. 
Thank You.

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From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Subject: Re: hydroponics
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
    <1992Aug17.055335.10471@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:06:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.055335.10471@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:
>I was wondering and think I found a possible serious enterprise...  Since
>selling hydroponics equipment _is_ legal, (isn't it?) how about buying 4-5
>hydroponics setups at a time mail order and selling 'em at the flee market
>for a hefty profit.  That way, people could buy them without putting their
>name on a list.  Think it it would work?

As a moneymaking venture?  Probably not.
You might get a few growers started.

And beware.  If the DEA or local cops notice this activity, they might just 
put an undercover cop at the table next to yours to take down license plates
of all your customers.  And if you sell to anybody who mentions "pot", they
would probably confiscate your entire stock, along with your house, car,
etc.

One other thing -- don't do this (mailorder lotsa hydroponics) unless you
are prepared to have *your* house searched.

I once saw a book called _The Closet Cultivator_ which detailed all kinds of
nifty ideas for do-it-yourself hydroponics.  One in particular involved
an aquarium air-pump on a timer, connected to a reverse-bong type setup; the
air pressure forced the water out of the bottle into the plant container.

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.
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From: euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Elizabeth Kupfer)
Subject: Re: Photosynthesis Philosophy.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 13:59:34 GMT
Keywords: Red, Blue, Black, Light, & Help.

jscsp@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Parker) writes:

>Using the ideas in _The_complete_guide_to_growing_Marijuana_, one assumes 
>a plant needs 'Red' and 'Blue' rays to grow, right? Well, a FOAF claims
>that an ultra-violet light is the most perfect place to get blue rays from.
>FOAF also says : ultra-violet light = Black light. <- Truth? Not Truth?
   While a black light is a good source of ultra-violet light, it doesnt'  
  follow that a source of ultra-violet is the 'most perfect' source of blue
  light.  If you can get the specs on a light source, it'll include a
  description of the spectrum of light it kicks off.
Somewhat long-winded photosynthesis spiel follows:
  Plants absorb light across the entire visible spectrum.  However, the pig-
  ments that absorb light as the first step of converting light energy to
  chemical energy preferentially absorb light in the red and blue regions of
  the spectrum.  A blue photon has more energy than a red photon, but they
  contribute the same amount of energy, quanta for quanta, in the light
  harvesting process.  This is because the difference is lost upon absorption
  by the pigment, excess energy being dissipated mostly as heat.
    I'd have to go back and rummage through my papers to verify what
  chlorophyll does and doesn't absorb in the UV range, but what i'm trying to
  get at is that a black light, while it may kick out an apprciatable amount
  of blue light, is kicking out alot of UV...if you're not careful, you'll
  cook your plants with the UV light that they absorb.  There are light bulbs
  on the market specifically designed for growing plants which give alot of
  blue light without so much UV; these would be a 'more perfect' source of
  blue light for growing things.
    Further questions are welcome.         

e.k.
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From: iain@ttel.ling
Subject: Dosing and vodka
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:42:37 GMT

Is it dangerous to mix LSD with alcohol? I ask this because when mixing  
someone's drink, I decided to dose her (she was talking about the mother  
trip she was goning to take after the party and I wanted to help her  
along). However I didn't know if it's safe to mix LSD and vodka. In case  
the chance shows itself again, is it? Please post because the address is  
an alias.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: st1g9@rosie.uh.edu (Lee Preimesberger)
Subject: Re: FREE 1-YEAR NRA MEMBERSHIPS (Not Here!)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:41:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.195513.5655@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
#Isn't anyone going to answer my question from an earlier response on
#this thread?  I asked for documentation that the NRA promoted the
#making and sale of Teflon "cop killer" bullets.  Is the silence to
#be interpreted as meaning that no such promotion existed? 
# 
#As far as the bullets themselves go. They would not be any more effective
#than a normal bullet at penetrating body armor. They were designed for
#penetrating windshields of automobiles from an angle.
# 

	I can't help with the NRA stuff - but I seriously doubt teflon helps
penetrate windshields that much.  I got my little hands on some military
surplus rounds with the forbidden teflon way back when they were still 
available.

	They plowed through phone books and wooden blocks with the greatest
of ease - I would imagine they would do quite a number on body armor as
well.  The teflon reduces the amount of friction between the bullet and
its target, allowing it to penetrate farther.

	Of course, body armor would do no good at all for these sort of
high power cartridges in the first place - the bullets probably have enough
KE to do very serious harm even if the armor does manage to stop them.

	This thread is becoming nearly as tiresome as that damned helecopter
one.  Further abuse and questions to e-mail or your nearest strychnine
universe portal. :-)

#Bill

			  Lee Preimesberger
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: st1o5@Rosie.UH.EDU
Subject: Re: FREE 1-YEAR NRA MEMBERSHIPS (Not Here!
Reply-To: st1o5@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:47:27 GMT

Guns don't kill, bullets do! >:-)

dw
From: jscsp@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Parker)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Tea the answer?
Summary: Maybe, maybe not..
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:15:00 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC

In article <1992Aug22.200900.8984@bradley.bradley.edu>, death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes...
>I was talking to this dude i know that says that by drinking this certain
>tea that all traces of any drugs you've taken in the last couple of weeks
>(including the day before) will be wiped out, unable to be detected by drug
>tests. he puts a lot of faith in this seeing that he is in one of the armed
>forces. the tea is bought at health food stores. it is called Alvita golden
>bond or golden seal or something like this. any truth to this? i heard 

I heard something like that too, something to the effect of taking 1
golden seal pill then 2 later, then 3, etc, etc until it flushes everything
out, sounds hokey. (I think Golden Seal is natures version of Ex-lax)

>while listening to the olympics that the athlete aren't allowed to take
>diuretics because they might mask other drugs, is this the possible affect
>it has? I am seriously doubting him because he got mad at me when i told
>him you can't put enough strychnine in a tab to do any harm. he was
>telling me of when his friends got cramps from it. (shrug)

Same here, I told a friend that mentioned stryc in lsd, and I told him that 
it doesn't happen. He said, "I know that, I say stryc because its common
knowledge that *something* fucks w/your system in lsd." He went off on
some sphiel about people putting speed in acid. He thinks if you cut your
lsd w/speed, you can get more tabs out of your liquid. Any truth? Part truth?
Grammatical errors?
From: tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Trevor Cederquist)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Lordnose!' Guide to the Psychedelics
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:53:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	Lordnose! sends out a 16-page booklet with his Xochi
	poster.  Has anyone seen it?  I would appreciate response
	from possessors of this literature.

tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
Trevor Cederquist
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: cavasin@convex.com (Vince Cavasin)
Subject: Re: speed anyone? (info that is)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:50:46 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

rengen@aludra.usc.edu (Robert Engen) writes:



>I could not find this in any of the FAQ's, so...

>Does anyone have any info on "speed".  

yes.  it is the magnitude of velocity.

>I'm NOT looking for typical
>"urban myth", but rather "real" info.  

no shit, man. anyone that tells you speed has a directional component is full
of shit.

>Preferably something with
>references. 

see any freshman physics book.

>also, please e-mail the responses.

but then there wouldn't even be a CHANCE someone would find this funny. :^)

-vince

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From: mgflax@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Marshall G. Flax)
Subject: Filler
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:12:27 GMT

I've nothing to say really.  I just realized that I may be
leaving the net soon and I never let the FBI put me into
another of their dossiers.  Hell, I don't even do drugs
other than caffeine, but their computers won't know that.

So, BEAST, that's 067-44-2395.

marshall
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From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Availability of chlorpromazine and hypodermic dart guns?
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:29:04 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Aug14.125933.25490@linus.mitre.org>, lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis) writes:
> Albert Hofmann's _LSD: My Problem Child_ mentions i.v. chlorpromazine
> (Thorazine) as an antidote for LSD.  Isn't this the same drug they use 
> to incapacitate large unfriendly animals for scientific tagging?

The canonical content of such dart guns is stuff trade-named Immobilon,
which contains thorazine but whose most-active ingredient is a
synthetic opiate called etorpine, which is something like 10,000
times more potent than morphine.  I read recently that etorphine
is sometimes (or maybe usually, now) replaced by one of the stronger
fentanyl analogues, which has a significantly shorter half-life.

I doubt that the recreational use of etorphine has been extensively
explored.  A recent letter in _Natural History_ (apparently in
reference to an earlier article on dart-gunning animals, which I
don't have) claimed that etorphine disrupted body thermo-regulation
in animals (so that darted rhinos essentially need to be kept
on life-support).  Unclear whether this is at Immobil-ized doses
only or at any significant dose.

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045
From: ppennane@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Petrus Pennanen)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Desmanthus illinoensis
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:21:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <gsVcPB1w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> scotc.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>> What kind of percentages are in it?  Would an extraction be
>> neccessary for use, or could the whole root be used?

Thompson et al. report that the root bark of this North American perennial
shrub contains 0.34% DMT and 0.11% N-methyltryptamine. The bark accounts
for about a half of the total weight of the roots. The plant should be
resistant to cold and draught and easy to grow. ...Of the Jungle (PO Box
1801 Sebastopol CA 95473) sells D. illinoensis seeds and dried roots (seed
packet $3, 7 grams $10, oz $25; roots 4 oz $15, pound $50). Seeds are also
available from more main-stream mail-order houses.

If you want to smoke it, a good extraction is essential. You can also eat the
whole root with MAO inhibitors like those found in Peganum harmala seeds
(dosage about 1 g of seeds) or Banisteriopsis caapi vine (dosage >10 g ?).

If you think you have the skills needed for the extraction, mail Jeremy 
(jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au) for details.

About Mimosa:

The roots of M. tenuiflora, which is not the common houseplant M. pudica 
("sensitive plant"), contain 0.57% DMT and are used by Indians of Pernambuso 
State in Brazil as part of their Yurema cult (Pachter et al. 1959, Schultes 
1977, Meckes-Lozoya et al. 1990). Bark of M. verrucosa also contains DMT 
(Smith 1977).

I haven't heard of a place selling M. tenuiflora (== M. hostilis) seeds or 
plants.

Petrus
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.guns
From: jah@mits.mdata.fi (Jani A. Heinonen)
Subject: Re: Availability of chlorpromazine and hypodermic dart guns?
Organization: Microdata International Telecomm Service, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:26:43 GMT

reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) writes:

>This got me thinking (it does happen occasionally).  Why couldn't
>someone design a drug-adminsitering weapon for self-defense?

   Because, unfortunately, the current drug laws would hinder the general
availability of weapons whose ammunition contained scheduled substances.
I see a better reason for this: there'd be plenty of assholes who thinked that
it's really cool to knock people down with them. See a chick, stab her with
something fun like ketamine or fentanyl, do your thing and run away. The kind
of folks who wouldn't shoot people with real guns for kicks. Really, not a
good idea.
-- 
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jah@mits.mdata.fi                 --David A. Honig
From: Xanadu@kublai.com
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Poppies & Opium
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:15:13 GMT

Hi there,

	Some time ago, somebody posted an article about poppies and
	using them for an illegal purpose. Since then, I have come
	across a field of poppies, and was wondering if the original
	poster, or anyone else, can tell me if all poppies are "useful"
	to some degree, or if it's species dependant.

	The reason I ask is that I would hate to think that I had
	uprooted an entire field and destroyed them in order to save
	the fabric of society, if there was no need to.

	The poppies in question are the regular red ones, as used for
	Remembrance Days.

	Oh, and just so I don't accidentally affect myself with these
	poppies ( if they are active ), can you tell me what I
	shouldn't do to them.

		Many Thanks,
		    S.Coleridge.

----

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.guns
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: Availability of chlorpromazine and hypodermic dart guns?
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:12:10 GMT

reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) writes:

>This got me thinking (it does happen occasionally).  Why couldn't
>someone design a drug-adminsitering weapon for self-defense?  I'd think
>that a load of pentothal (or whatever) would drop an attacker very
>quickly.  What would be the best drug to use?  Has anyone done this?
>How might it work?  Would a needle be necessary, or could it use a jet
>of DMSO (or something similar) to the face as a delivery mechanism?

	I'm sure people have tried for decades, but there is no way
an injected (or inhaled?) chemical is going to incapacitate faster
than blood loss does.  (the exception: cyanide compounds?  It's moot,
however, as non-lethality is surely a requirement)

	There is a serial killer, Richard Kiklinsky (sp?), in jail now
in the Trenton NJ state pen, who used to kill people by spraying something
in their face.  The beauty of it was that he could do it in public and
there was no noise or anything.   Cyanide something or other I think.
Useless for self defense, of course, as it takes several minutes to
kill, and it is dangerous and illegal to handle, I'm sure.

(Re utopian reliable & "safe" incapacitation device)

>Would the gun-controllers want to ban it?  Or would they use its
>availability as additional justification for banning real guns?

Yes and yes.

Jim Del Vecchio.
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