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From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Please Feed the Spooks
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:35:06 GMT

In article <cass8806.99@elan.glassboro.edu> cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.063823.22045@Princeton.EDU> spencer@burn.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
>
>>Use alt.cascade, please, that's what it's there for.
>
>what exactly is a "spook" and why is it always so hungry? and is there 
>really an alt.cascade?

The "spooks" are government agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, who knows?) that allegedly
scan Usenet looking for certain keywords.  The idea of "feeding the spooks"
is to insert such words (for example 'guns', 'sex', 'anarchy', 'plutonium')
into every post you make whether or not they have anything to do with what
you are saying.

And, yes, there really is an alt.cascade.  I confess, I was the one who
inadvertently changed "Please feed the spooks" from a meaningful discussion
to a cascade.  Someone asked "what is a cascade?", and I answered with an
example.

Bill Marcum
From: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: birth control pills
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:09:09 GMT
Reply-To: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Organization: SGI TechPubs

---
Webbge@che17.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb) writes:
|In article <geR2w1S00WB24FMH9u@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Alan S. Ferrency"
|<af1x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> Hello.  Does anyone know of any drugs that have bad effects when used when
|> someone is on birth control pills?  I kind of think there's not much danger,
|> but I was told to ask, so I will...

|nicotine.  And from what I've heard steroids can make the pill ineffective.
|also be warned that switching prescriptions is enough to throw the body
|off and allow pregnancy.

Also watch out for antibiotics.  Use a second method of 
contraception while you're on a prescribed course, and
probably for a little bit afterwards, too.

---
cj@eno.corp.sgi.com	C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability
of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person
would always wish to avoid."  --Jane Austen
From: gaspar@inf.ethz.ch (gaspo)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: LSD Contains Strychnine!  No, Really!
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:56:32 GMT
Organization: Twilight-Zone-Algorithms-Incorporated

In article <1992Jul31.041203.13647@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bx461@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leo J. Mauler) writes:
>Of course I'm kidding!  Blotter Acid is way too small to fit 
>anything other than LSD on the tab!

sounds like your tabs are too small.  you gettin ripped off mano.

>I've seen other "automated monthly postings", and the fact 
>that there's a LSD FAQ doesn't seem to faze the "strychnine in 
>LSD" rumor, so if something informative like this was posted 
>monthly, I'm sure the "strychnine noise" would at least 
>diminish.

hmm, automated? Thats IT!!! the DEA has a net connection, and
as soon as the strychnine shit dies down, they auto-post another one.
Thats why there are rarely any replies from the original posters!

see, the dea and all realize the potential of the net to organize our
efforts.  But this can only be done if we stop wastin time on the
strychninians (tm.).  So they keep us busy flaming the strychninians
when we could be co-ordinating something like: holding the net hostage
till all-drugs are legalized.

Now, lets drop the whole thing, and just sit and wait for then next
strychninian post.  Maybee its just a simple check of the subject lines,
and when there is no "strych" in any articles, the auto-post fires off.

--gaspo.


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Xref: sparky alt.drugs:13747 sci.med:14795 talk.politics.misc:36497 talk.politics.drugs:5439
From: RR04@bunny.gte.com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,sci.med,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Definition of an addict.
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:33:51 GMT
Followup-To: alt.drugs
Organization: GTE Laboratories

In article <1992Jul29.045547.4493@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> 
al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:
>  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...........

...should we start at the ankles, or the knees?

Rob Robertson
GTE Laboratories          (617)466-4144 vox
40 Sylvan Rd.                (617)890-9320 fax
Waltham, Mass. 02254
"There is nothing new under the sun..."
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: ricegm@ecf.toronto.edu (George Matthew Rice)
Subject: Re: Growing 'shrooms in rice. Repost Please!
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:12:27 GMT

Dear Mr/Mrs. Mcauli_t at cs.uwa.oz.au (the person that posted the original 
		question) .
	Could you contact me I tried to reach you through E-mail but
	my mail couldn't get through.

Matthew
From: scook@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen B. Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: LSD vs shrooms
Date: 28 Jul 1992 21:27:20 -0500
Organization: at times
NNTP-Posting-Host: needmore.cs.utexas.edu

could be due to species but I prefer to think it's all in the mind!

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
Subject: Re: SS harasses student for E-mail remark
Keywords: Bush SS Secret Service threat bust hassle harassment
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:01:08 GMT
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.

In article <9207291501.AA18762@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU writes:
>|It was not known how the authorities learned of the message, but Mr.
>|Coan, who graduated today, said he was subpoenaed last month after
>|refusing to talk with Secret Service agents who showed up at his
>|track practice.  He said he appeared before a grand jury two weeks
>|ago but refused to testify, citing his rights against compelled
>|self-incrimination...
	Wouldn't testify huh?  Good for him.  Maybe there is hope for the
	world in the youth of today after all.  Too bad more people don't
	resist when the Secret Pol. .  I mean Service comes a knocking.



							smg
From: jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Info. on nutmeg
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:38:45 GMT
Organization: University of Western Australia

Safrole is the persursor for MDA. Myristicin, found in nutmeg, is I
believe the percursor for MDMA
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pfcouvar@amhux1.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)
Subject: Re: Cookin' with da green guy
Organization: Amherst College
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:23:37 GMT

joelong@romeo.caltech.edu (Long, Joseph Louis) writes:
>
>We've all heard that oral consumption of mj (cooked of course) is a 
>very different trip than smoked mj, right?  My question is: Is it just
>as potent?  In other words do you need the same quantity to "get off"
>as you do smoked, or less, or more?

	Definitely more: three or four times as much. That's why, even
though I preferred eating to smoking, I rarely indulged in a good batch
of brownies...

-Peter

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
Subject: Re: What is the Health Risk from Smoking MJ?
Keywords: Smoking, Tobacco, Marijuana, Health
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:22:49 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.

Huh?

I thought Bob Marley was killed by a bullet.

In any case, NO lung cancer occurance has ever been linked to marijuana.

Some people think that it is radioactive elements in tobacco smoke that are
mostly responsible for tobacco related lung cancer.  Marijuana does not contain
these radioactive elements.  Also, marijuana tends to open the lung
passageways, making it easier for the lungs to expel foreign material.  Tobacco
causes constriction of these same passageways, making it harder for the lungs
to expel foreign material.

Also, I believe longitudinal studies of Jamaican pot smokers found them to be
healthier than the general population (or at least no less healthy).  The one
health risk that HAS been positively associated with marijuana smoking is a
slightly greater incidence of bronchitis.

-Pete Zakel
 (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
		-- Bertold Brecht
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: bx461@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leo J. Mauler)
Subject: Re: Freebase=Crack
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:22:31 GMT


n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio), writes:
>rfrazier%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Robert Frazier)
>writes:
>>    This has been a question of major debate between my
>>friends.  Is crack the same thing as the freebase people
>>make from cocaine?
>>    If so, why is crack so much cheaper.  I have seen tv show
>>busts where 10 or 15 dollar bag of crack looks a lot bigger
>>than the expensive powder cocaine.  
>
>They are the same thing, "crack" is freebase with all sorts of
>crap (baking soda, sugar, etc), in it to bulk it up.
>
>The crap does nothing but add weight and/or allow you the
>pleasure of sucking burning crap smoke into your lungs.   It
>is simple to purify it, and then you have freebase.
 
>>       I believe they are the same thing.  I have never tried
>>if they produce the same effects.  I have heard that crack is
>>a rawer form than processed cocaine, and so it is cheaper.
>>And that you can turn cocaine back into the crack, but you
>>are starting from the more expensive processed form.
>
>base + crap = crack.   Crack - crap = base.   Cocaine powder
>+ baking soda turns into crack, and then is purified into
>base.
 
I'm not too sure if you're correct.  The process for making 
each is quite different (Richard Pryor was injured making 
"freebase"; the article I read about it was a later one which 
said that the process for making "crack" is much safer) as 
well as the contents involved.
 
If "freebase" == "crack", why do they call it by a different 
name and treat it differently?
 
"A rose by any other name will still smell as sweet..."
 
-- 
______________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: jmctigue@WISSEL.STERN.NYU.EDU (J C. McTigue)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: LSD - After effects
Date: 23 Jul 92 03:08:21 GMT


Some thoughts about visual after affects:
Some friends of mine who have done a lot of LSD say that they now have a
few different visual affects as a result.  They include seeing floaters
(look like single sell transparent thingies floating down your field of
vision) and "static" (visual noise, often when looking at a solid color -
the sky works well).  They say these are not always present, but if they
look for them, they can see them.
I noticed these things many years ago (long before I started tripping) and
I don't think that LSD didn't do anything more than make the people aware
of them.  It didn't cause them.
And tripping hasn't affected my noticing of them.


jmctigue@stern.nyu.edu or try jmctigue@sales.stern.nyu.edu
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:29:35 -0400 
From: William Spaulding Wood <ww1i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: flashbacks, bad trips, etc.

Woah...phuq-ed up studdly.  I was just curious, as a niave 19 year-old,
is it possible for one to have tripped on a farly frequent basis, say
once a week or so, for half a year, or so, this being 26 times, roughly,
and never haave had a bad trip, or flashback?  How is it that people
describe things happening that I cannot even begin to see.  The only
time I feel paranoid is crossing the street (I have to wait for a "Walk"
sign.)  Outside of that I am in a completely sane mind-state, with
everything else being skewed.  Things that don't move ordinarily do
(which is why inanimate objects are more appealing than a good
"psychedelic" screen saver, or "The Wall" (motion picture form.)  People
look a little strange.  I am typically funnier than usual, sometimes an
incredibly enlightening experience occurs that leads me to some
incredibly profound statement of unfathomable proportions.  Never do
these bizaare fantasies take hold of me, faces do sing (face, mind you,
where there was just a stucco wall,) and neat things like that, but
really, you describe complete anti-"reality."  Why is it that I do not
experience this?  Is it me?  Does my sub-consceince keep too much a hold
on reality, because I usually try to not try anything, but rather, just
let it all happen, especially with my guitar, and the stucco walls.  And
why do I not experience flashbacks?  I think I've had 2, not too many in
relation to the number of trips.

Not that I would have ever actually done acid, mind you, that would be
illeagle, like speeding, or J-Walking, of which I do neither.

    ~wig, ground-down boy from the .
From: 781101@redgum.bcae.oz.au (100)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Info. on nutmeg
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:18:49 GMT
Organization: UCNV, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Originator: 781101@redgum.ucnv.edu.au

I have been reading a bit about the use of nutmeg as a drug. However, it
is clear that most reports/posts contradict one another in relation to
the active substituents, effects, dosage, dangers etc. Does anyone know
some real FACTS about the use of this substance. I myself have used it a
couple of times; both times I used already-ground 'meg bought in a tin,
and took 50g both times. As far as I'm concerned, the effects were just
like a mild hash buzz. The only hallucinations I had were slight
auditory, like people talking in the background.
  I have also heard reports of using the active components (myristicin
I think) as a reagent in the synthesis of other psychoactive drugs. Is
this true, and if so, how easy is it to do. I am studying Organic Chem.,
so any reaction mechanisms etc will be handy. If you can help, please
e-mail me. Thanx...
Dave.
781101@redgum.ucnv.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Floaters (was Re: LSD - After effects)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:28:17 GMT

ges@stiatl.salestech.com (Gerald Sullivan) writes:
: 
: >retina that was dangerously close to becoming detached and while she was
: >waiting for appointment for laser surgery they told her to call up the
: >doctor if she saw a sudden increase in the number of floaters.  Then she
: >became paranoid about floaters, naturally.  Then they zapped her
: >retina 50 times with a laser and she's fine now.  Detached retinas are
: >something to watch out for if you are nearsighted, because the shape of
: 
: I don't beleive nearsightedness has any correlation to detached retinas.
: Nearsightedness is usually a weakness in the muscles that focus your eyes.

Or due to the shape of the eyeball.

: 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.

Bill

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: derunix@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (Derek Wright)
Subject: Re: LSD - After effects
Keywords: LSD, Acid, flashback, Ren & Stimpy
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:01:45 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-22190]: rs1.tcs.tulane.edu



  Although I'm no authority on this matter, it's my belief that these 
strange audio and visual effects are not due to the LSD, but rather, 
made noticeable by its use.  Quite frequently I've seen the walls start
to slide, pictures bulge out towards me or other minor hallucinations,
all under the influence of no drug at all.  If your eyes start to focus
away from an object you are looking at, your vision gets distorted 
or whatever, but normally you wouldn't notice this if you hadn't tripped
and seen these minor things as major hallucinations.  So I really don't
think the LSD is causing your vision to distort, long after you use it
(the last time I did LSD was almost a year ago) but rather letting 
you see a natural phenomenon that your eyes do all the time.  Flashbacks
are a myth, dreamed up to scare people into not doing drugs, and everyone
hallucinates a little, some of us just notice it more than others.

-Derek 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: snively.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Subject: Bear, LSD, and other fun stuff.
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:03:04 GMT

If anyone has ever seen it, there is an interview with "Bear" (Owslewy 
[sp]) in the book "Talks with the Dead" (ot something like that).  In it, 
he says that he's not very scientific, or over up on his chem, but he 
still could make the best acid on the time.  How is this?  (Is he just 
being modest?)

Some other furst stuff: Read the book "Another Roadside Attraction" by 
Tom Robbins.  Great stuff.  Some very very good stuff about drugs.  A 
diffrent kind of "now" trip.

Wow.  Anyway, may your life be full,
Seer

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: larson_s@apsicc.aps.edu (Shawn Larson)
Subject: Re: How bad are a few cigs/day?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:42:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
Keywords: cigarette
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <Brr1y7.F6x@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, armtrout@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Armantrout) writes...
>  i've heard much about how unhealthy smoking cigarettes can be, but i think
>that most of these statistics are about people who smoke at least a pack
>a day. does anyone know 'how bad' it is for you to smoke a couple cigarettes
>a day, or a few a week, or some small-but-not-chain-smoking amount? (as has
>been my wont lately) thanks for the infoes, mark.
> 
>-- 
>Mark Armantrout, Clever Person of Non-Color	grep | Ceci n'est pas une pipe
>armtrout@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 	       I will explain my sarcasm to you - ask.
>NeXTmail to armtrout@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu		CATHODE CATHOUSE lives
>Start Seeing Motorcycles				   Lucky Strikes Again

 The damage caused by a few cigarettes a day is irrelevant, because speaking
from my personal experience and that of my friends your current state of 
smoking a few a day will most likely progress to somewhere around a pack.
Trust me, smoking sucks.  I've quit before, but I started up again 8 months 
later.  (get nicotine gum from your doctor, it worked for me, it might work
for you)

Shawn


Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: bprofane@netcom.com (Gert Niewahr)
Subject: Re: Advertisement in the UK Times..
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:31:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Jul25.190603.24961@ddsw1.mcs.com> zane@ddsw1.mcs.com (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>	The President doesn't make the laws.. Congress and the states make
>the laws. (The states make the state laws.) I think under Carter MANY states
>decriminalized marijuana.. (I am unsure on this tidbit-- anyone know for
>sure?)

"Decriminalize" isn't the same as legalize, and anyway I think only
a handful of state "decriminalized" simple possession (CA, OR, WA,
NY, MA, WI at a guess.  Minnesota, too?).  Any kind of dealing and
possession of larger amounts was still a felony.  In most of the
country, even having a joint could still land your ass in jail for
a long, long time.  Oh yeah, Oregon did essentially legalize simple
possession, and Alaska, of course, allowed limited cultivation and
possession under the quirks of their state constitution.

It's true that things were pretty loose in most areas.  Washington
state cops would just dump your baggie in the Carter years.

If I recall correctly, Carter didn't really need Congressional
approval to "legalize" marijuana at the federal level.  I think he
could have ordered the DEA to move it from Schedule I to some
category for innocuous drugs by fiat.  Couldn't he have ordered the
FDA to approve marijuana for medical purposes?  I think so.
Congress could have overturned these acts legislatively, but I
think it was in Carter's powers to initiate them since these two
bureaus are part of the executive branch.  The federal trafficking
laws would have required Congressional approval to repeal, but they
were a small part of the problem.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke)
Subject: Re: Effects of smoking mj seeds?
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:02:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.235714.8831@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, tjm8890@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
> 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.

And the puke afterwards, especially after a good meal...

If *ANYONE* is that mad smoking seeds, is he BTW throwing the weed away ???

Yours:
Jan.

(I am from Holland, enough experienced...)

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin)
Subject: Re: Law officers obliged to identification?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:36:57 GMT
Keywords: Do they?

jscsp@acad3.alaska.edu (PARKER CHRIS S) writes:

>Well, I heard that any peace keeping officers, as being paid by tax payers,
>must identify him/herself if inquired, is this true.

	False. I thought the way to make sure you were not not
confederating with an agent was 1) ask them and 2) observe them engage
in some illegal activity (illicit drug use).
	However, officers may deny that occupation if they feel it
endangers their welfare (up to their discretion?), and, I recently
heard a report that there were to be changes in policy since too many
agents were retaining their drug habits after beginning them as part
of a 'cover'.

	Moral: do not kidnap, lie, cheat, steal, commit felons,
molest, terrorize, kill in large numbers, fire nuclear weapons, rape
the environment, lie to your constituents, engage in hypocrosy or maintain
war as a domestic policy unless you are the USofA.
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA