HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Subject: Re: Partial Legalization
Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Ingres Division, ASK Computer Systems.
Distribution: usa
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:42:55 GMT

Pete Hartman writes:
> Would a "normal, happy, well-adjusted individual" (if such existed :-)
> be addicted to a drug just because of itself?  I maintain not.

You're welcome to, but the facts are against you.

One of the advantages of using non-human subjects is we can control
their backgrounds, pick any subjects we like, and see if the results
replicate across individuals.  Science of this sort has had no trouble
arranging circumstances that lead to addiction across organisms.

There is a class of substances whose mere exposure leads to addiction.

-- Jon

Jon Krueger  jpk@ingres.com
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Natural DMT sources?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:01:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Does anyone have a table with the DMT content per dry weight of the various
known plants that contain it.  From Terrence McKenna we have it that the
proper recipe for ayahausca is 50gm B. caapi to 8.5gm P. viridis per dose.
If we can find the DMT content per unit weight of P. viridis then and
the content of other sources such as D. illinoensis root we have a recipe
translator.  Can anyone research this?

Bob

-- 
Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

Stomp out intolerance!
From: larry@csccat.cs.com (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Keywords: Smoking, Tobacco, Marijuana, Health
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:28:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Support Corporation,  Dallas,Texas

In article <Rm4LoB6w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us> augy@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Jeffrey Ehlinger) writes:
>ibarrett@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (I G Barrett) writes:
>> Surely smoking marijuana is at least as potentially dangerous as smoking 
>> tobacco?  The file 'drug-statistics' at 'ftp.u.washington.edu' gives various 
>> figures for deaths due to tobacco, marijuana and various other drugs - the 
>> figure given for marijuana was zero.
>
>   While watching a health show on Discover Channel, I wa smaused to see 
>Dr D. Edel explaining the low health risks of MJ. I thought it made 
>perfect sense too.
>    He said: ". . .but nobody smokes 20 marijuana cicarrettes in a day" 
>while explaining how smoking a pack-a-day will contrbute to cronic lung 
>disfunctions, and marijuana has not been linked to these, although  I 
>tend to believe it does, just not as much as tobacco (only because it is 
>not generally abused as much as tobacco).

Haven't there been studies done on Jamaican populations where _very_ heavy
marijuana smoking is common?  One would think that if smoking marijuana
increased the risk of lung cancer, emphysema, etc., that those Rastas would 
be dropping like flies, and that the US government would point this out. 

Before anyone jumps in with the usual "but Bob Marley died of cancer" line
-- his cancer was apparently caused by a foot injury which was neglected and 
failed to heal.

-- 
Larry Spence
larry@cs.com
uunet!csccat!larry or sun!texsun!csccat!larry
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: LA Times : "Long LSD Prison Terms--It'
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:33:50 GMT

In article DFB@news.cso.uiuc.edu, drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin) writes:
>mike@optimla.aimla.com (Mike Diehr) writes:
>>  "I'm just not troubled by this at all," said Robert C. Bonner, administrator of the
>>Drug Enforcement Administration.  "There are some pretty severe penalties for trafficking
>>in LSD, but I think that's right.  This is a very dangerous drug.  It once was referred
>>to as do-it-yourself brain surgery."
>
>	Isn't there some legal grounds with which somebody could attack this
>guy? If not for slander, then how bout for being under-educated for his 
>position.

Nah...you can't deny someone the right to exhibit stupidity.

---
gak
107/H/3&4
From: merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:49:35 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department
In-reply-to: morley@Apple.COM's message of 28 Jul 92 18:18:19 GMT

In article <70557@apple.Apple.COM> morley@Apple.COM (John Morley) writes:


   In article <15868@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
   > 
   > I believe Bob Marley died from smoking so much ganga he got lung
   > cancer.

>   Wrong!  Bob Marley died from a brain tumor, not lung cancer.  As for any
>   connection between the disease and his ganja use, I would tend to doubt it
>   because I'm sure that the propaganda pushers in Washington would have had a
>   field day with that if there was any way of establishing a connection.

>   - John

 Wrong again he had cancer of the foot(toe).
--
Sean J. Merritt		         |      Nietzsche che dice?
Dept of Physics Boston University| 	       Boh!	
merritt@budoe.bu.edu		 |
From: u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Canned shrooms?
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:14:11 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <Bs5z22.Ipq@ecf.toronto.edu>, ricegm@ecf.toronto.edu (George Matthew Rice) writes:
> In article <1992Jul29.142719.12309@linus.mitre.org> lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul29.005237.21844@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, ah589@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Troy Blum) writes:
>>>
>>>As many of you know, Psilocybe mushrooms lose much of their potency when
>>>dried. Does anybody know whether canning the mushrooms would preserve more
>>>of the psilocybin and psilocin? 
>>
>>My guess would be that heat from canning breaks the psychoactive componants
>>down even more rapidly.  Fresh mushrooms should be kept in the refrigerator
>>in a ventillated container.  Dried ones can be frozen.
>>
> What about extracting the p &p from the fresh mushroom's?
> Is that even an option to the layman ?

It is not too difficult, and it would be the best way to preserve the
active component for any length of time. It would involve a bit of
chemistry know-how; I have a method for this (from a classic French
text) somewhere; it was based on methanol and chloroform. The
extraction is a little fiddly, because the psilocybin is quite
water soluble in both acid and base forms - it is amphoteric and
may form a type of zwitterion. Mail me if you think you are in
a position to be able to use the details.

Jeremy
jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au
 

> 
> Matthew
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein)
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Keywords: Smoking, Tobacco, Marijuana, Health
Organization: Strawman Incorporated
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:37:42 GMT

In article <15868@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.013619.11668@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>>"Marijuana has never caused a death" is a factoid that I hear quoted
>>often.  And I'm not inclined to believe it.  Hasn't even _one_ stoned
>
>I believe Bob Marley died from smoking so much ganga he got lung
>cancer.

I thought he died of brain cancer.
-- 
******************************************************************************
Robert Greenstein           What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking
green@island.com            that by his laughter he shows superiority instead
                            of latent idiocy - M. Corelli
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:04:35 GMT

hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
: 
: I recall reading that marijuana contains four or five times as much "tar"
: as tobacco.  The "tar" is the carcinogenic ingredient in tobacco smoke.
: 
: So far as I know, no deaths have been directly attributed to overdose on
: the active ingredient in marijuana (tetrahydracanabinol?).  That's the
: statistic most often quoted by the LEMAR crowd.  Also, marijuana contains
: no nicotine, which is the addictive ingredient in tobacco.

Well, you would think that the Rasta's in Jamaica would be dropping like
flies from their heavy marijuana usage - wouldn't you? Funny that all the
studies show that this is not the case.

Bill
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From: rcsjp@cgl.rmit.oz.au (Jason Pouflis)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.sex,alt.privacy,alt.society.revolution,soc.culture.usa,alt.culture.usenet,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty
Subject: Re: Please Feed the Spooks Cascades (rot13)
Date: 27 Jul 92 08:32:06 GMT
Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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> > >>>>>           uzzz...V gbb nz ybfg, unf nalbar frra zl funqrf ?
> > >>>>	           hu, guvf vf jrveq, qb lbh guvax vg jvyy snqr?
> > >>>                 Unf nalobql urer frra zl byq sevraq Qnegu Inqre?
> > >> NNEETTU  V'ir pnfpnqrq naq V pna'g trg hc!
> > >SYNETU V'ir noenqrq naq V pna'g trg bc!
> > OYNETU V'ir qrulqengrq naq V pna'g jrg pubcf!
> Fgnegvat gb trg gur vqrn?
JHGFFDU I've rotated and I can't rhyme!
From: mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
Subject: Re: Dangers of Use
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:53:00 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <2A720E72.806@ics.uci.edu> mmadsen@ics.uci.edu (Matt Madsen) writes:
>Just what are the dangers of using most illegal drugs?  (And legal ones as
>well!)  It would seem to me (as a non-user) that anything that's going to
>cause hallucinations would probably be messing something up in your head...
>
>Thanks.
>

Getting busted is one of the biggest dangers.

Well, as a non-user, you may never know. Some affects can be simply
put as.... divine, with no ill effects.
From: pck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Philip C. Kilinskas)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Natural vs syntesized.
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:26:42 GMT
Organization: UB

rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:

>I guess mescaline has some of that potential too.  Others anyone?

I had always heard that the effects of mesc were virtually identical
to LSD, the only thing different was the dosage.  Anyone who can
comment?

Phil
____________________________________________________________________________
pck@acsu.buffalo.edu /  "Our days are like grass..." - Psalms 103:51
Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT.  You feel sleepy.  Notice how
restful it is to watch the cursor blink.  Close your eyes.  The opinions
stated above are yours.  You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
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From: af1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alan S. Ferrency)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Biochemical model (was re: partial legalization)
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:23:44 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have heard of the biochemical model for mental disorders, but I am not
familiar with it.  Can anyone suggest a good book to learn more about this
model?

-me
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gmarter@shelley.u.washington.edu (Guerren Marter)
Subject: Re: LSD - After effects
Keywords: LSD, Acid, flashback, Ren & Stimpy
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:04:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.211036.19517@cco.caltech.edu> slr@cco.caltech.edu (Steve L. Rhoades) writes:
>He has taken acid about every 2 weeks for the last couple of months.
>While he has never had a "flashback", he'll sometimes notice something
>moving out of the corner of his eye.  When he looks toward the "moving"
>object, everything's normal.
>
>Anyone else experience this ?
>

   For my friends and myself, this has been accepted as normal - if its
not, I'd be suprised.  If your friend has taken as often as you wrote that
he had, I'm intrigued that this only exists in his peripheral vision - 
usually after that much exposure, I've noted that tracers and small moving
objects occur in straightforward vision also.

  (i'm not too wacked here, am I?)

Loki


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From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Definition of an addict.
Date: 29 Jul 92 04:55:47 GMT
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


 starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) says:

>Very well, I'm convinced these folks need a support group of their own, so
>I'll start one.  Statists Anonymous.  Now howzabout a 12-step program?

No, that's a last resort. 
The first suggestion should be to try to cut down.
Then, if that doesn't work...........


-- 
=======================
"Endeavor to persevere"
=======================
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: chrisb@wixer.cactus.org (Chris Blandy)
Subject: Re: What Do YOU Think.
Reply-To: chrisb@wixer.UUCP (Chris Blandy)
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 08:45:35 GMT

In article <36104@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Trevor Cederquist)
 writes:
>
>	A simple question....
>
>	I was wondering for what reasons do people take drugs?
>
>	There are Seigel's and Weil's ideas that drug-taking
>	is just another behavior that alters consciousness,
>	which is an innate desire.
>
>	Some believe people take drugs to self-medicate for
>	depression, anxiety, or pain.
>
>	I've also heard that drug-taking is just another risk-
>	taking behavior which is an indicator of some underlying
>	psychological problem.
>
>	I'm sure there are others...  What do YOU think?
>
>
>
>Trevor C. Cederquist
>tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu


As far as I'm concerned, there are two distinct types of drug users, those
who enjoy the mind-altering effects of drugs (the "buzz") and those who take
drugs to medicate an illness.  Note that illness should not be considered
just the traditional "sicknesses."  An illness treated by alcohol, for
example, is alcoholism.  As far as risk-taking is concerned, if that is the
basis for drug use, then it is _not_ a psychological problem (although
conservative traditions may say so.)  There are, as far as risk-taking is
concerned, two basic personality types: Type A, who do things for 'thrills'
and Type B, who do not 'thrillseek'.  Drug use would most likely fit the Type
A personality, and being a thrillseeker (ie jumping out of airplanes, etc.)
is _not_ a psychological problem, rather a profile...
From: jcollier@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (John Donald Collier)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: how much L. have folks done?
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:18:08 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia

In <1992Jul20.182858.2676@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:

>N2O is great, as is THC. But DMT with LSD?? There is a partial cross-tolerence
>at least. I reckon that you would somewhat waste the DMT (from experience),
>and merely get a physical rush rather than a hallucinogenic one.

Opposite: DMT totally screens the LSD experience. There is no
cross tolerance. DMT does not cause any tolerance, as far as
I know, & I have reason to know. There may be some "tolerance"
in naive subjects (say, less than 100 times with each drug), 
but I wouldn't know.-- 
John Collier 			Email: jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
HPS -- U. of Melbourne		  	Fax:   61+3 344 7959
Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pfcouvar@amhux1.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)
Subject: Re: Effects of smoking mj seeds?
Organization: Amherst College
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:39:05 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>smathewrg03@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>: [...] Will smoking the mj seeds have any effect? In 
>: other words, do they contain any THC, and also, would this have any
>: harmfull side-effects? 
>
>Some say that you get headaches from smoking the seeds. 
>
>There is very little thc in the seeds.
>
>The most commonly recognized side-effect is the seed blowing up like popcorn
>and destroying carefully rolled joint.

	Or blowing up in your eye...it really sucks :)

(...but as for the original question, I often used to smoke a few seeds that
happened to be in with the pot, and other than a sore eye, they never affected
me negatively...one of the total bullshit rumors I've heard over the years is
that mj seeds will make you sterile, maybe this is what the original poster
heard...)

-Peter

pfcouvar@amhux1.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)
From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
Subject: Re: Rehabilitation Question
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:26:33 GMT

In article <Bs0B4G.5o6@casper.cs.uct.ac.za> ibarrett@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (I G Barrett) writes:
>I am wondering whether controlled, reduced usage is an accepted way to treat 
>abuse of a drug? e.g. drinking more moderate amounts of alcohol rather than
>abstaining completely.  I would think this would be a better way of dealing
>with the problem because you would then perhaps be less likely to go on a binge
>since you are not attempting to deny yourself, something which often seems to 
>lead to binges whether its alcohol or ice cream. 

This has been tried on a limited scale as an experiment. I am not near my
refs right now, but I seem to remember that the authors of the article were
a husband-and-wife team named Sobell, and that they got severely ripped on
(I think unfairly) by some people in Science magazine. These were papers we
read for a psychopharm class last semester, and very few people in the class
thought the ripping on was undeserved until we discussed the papers in
class. I can't remember the journal the original article was in, but it was
quite lenghty, and the journal is fairly respectable. the conclusion was
that the results were inconclusive, but that these folks were not much worse
off on average than those in AA/NA programs, perhaps even better depending
on how you count.

nuke@reed.edu@somewhere.else

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: slr@cco.caltech.edu (Steve L. Rhoades)
Subject: LSD - After effects
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:01:20 GMT

A FOAF has asked that I pose the following to the net.community:

He takes acid about every 2 weeks for the last couple of months.
While he has never had a "flashback", he'll sometimes notice something
moving out of the corner of his eye.  When he looks toward the "moving"
object, everything's normal.

There's no other sensation except for that glimpse out of the corner
of his eye.  This happens about twice a day and seems to lessen as
the length of time since he tripped increases.

Anyone else experience this ?

E-mail & follow-ups will be forwarded.


-- 
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 with half-baked ideas.  Some of those ideas are illegal.  I work here..."
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,sci.psychology
From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Subject: Reverse aversion response = instant addiction? (was Re: Partial Legalization
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:24:12 GMT

"Paul Hager" <hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
>>I agree that a lot of this is a matter of semantics.  To me, 'addicted'
>>implies that certain behaviour is conditioned to the point of compulsion and,
>>by that definition, it can't happen in one trial.  At the very least, a person
>>would have to use a drug 3-4 times to set up the compulsion.
>
>Although I tend to agree with statement, I should point out that there
>is a phenomenon called the Garcia Effect (I trust I got that right).
>In essense, a conditioned response can be set up after only one trial.
>The effect is observed when animals are given "tainted" food.  There
>is no need to further condition them against that particular food, the
>one trial suffices.  When this phenomenon was first observed, it 
>created a great deal of consternation among the behaviorists.  I'll
>leave it to others on the net more familiar with the field to comment
>but, suffice that it is not unreasonable to posit a mechanism that
>"instantly" conditions a response given that such an effect has already
>been observed.

The phenomenon is also called aversion response, I believe.  This
response, however, has almost exclusively been observed in negative, and
frequently life-threatening, situations such as tainted food and fear of
heights.  This response, which may almost qualify as a reflex of sorts,
*has* been used to treat alcoholics by giving them a nausea inducing drug
and then letting them drink their favourite beverages.  They become sick
soon after, and their bodies are fooled into thinking that the alcohol
caused the sickness, and future attempts to drink cause the person to be
sick again and thus be trained away from drinking.

However, because of the utter lack of observations of this type of response 
to positive or 'non-negative' situations, I would be extremely hesitant to 
apply this to drug use.  I don't know of any reputable studies that have
ever observed a reverse 'aversion response' to positive stimuli.

I'm crossposting this article at this time to sci.psychology so that maybe
some folks more knowledgable than me (I'm just a freshman psych major at
the moment) might fill in the gaps or correct any erroneous assertions on
my part.
-- 
=========*davE*.....making the world safe for intelligent dance music.=========
               Andre Marrou -- Libertarian for President 1992
--(David Vessell)--(Bradley University Computing Services)-(dave@bradley.edu)--
From: tjm8890@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Effects of smoking mj seeds?
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:57:14 GMT
Reply-To: tjm8890@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Hehehehehehe!
Smoke a bowl full of seeds, and enjoy the headache and the bad taste
in the mouth; and the lack of any high.
However, those green 'skins' covering seeds ARE potent.  So are the 
buds the seeds are clustered in.
From: ges@stiatl.salestech.com (Gerald Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Floaters (was Re: LSD - After effects)
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:36:12 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>ges@stiatl.salestech.com (Gerald Sullivan) writes:
>: It has nothing to do with the retina.  Detached retinas are usually cause 
>: by injuries to the eye.
>I believe that another cause is excessive fluid pressure in the eye.

I do not beleive this is true either. Excessive pressure in the eye
is a symptom of Glaucoma. Glaucoma causes blindness by damaging the
retina, not detaching it. It has been years since I worked in a
eye surgeons office, so take my opinion with appropriate grains
of salt.

>Bill

-- 
___________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Cancer risk of marijuana
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:58:21 GMT

DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu () writes:

... deleted ...

: Despite the lack of direct evidence, I think it's safe to say that chronic
: marijuana use can cause serious health problems.  The lack of direct
: evidence is probably due more to the lack of chronic marijuana users,
: rather than the lack of a link between marijuana and health.

: The above summary can be found in "Medical Underwriting" compiled by Richard
: Bailey.

I suppose that the Rastians in Jamaica are classified as "casual and occasional
users"? Right.

Bill

Newsgroups: alt.drugs