HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bigstar@milton.u.washington.edu (william)
Subject: Just a little humor.....
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:25:21 GMT

Just a little humor to (hopefully) cast a ray of sunshine on these
bleak, WOD days. This was pulled from news feed and I am sure many laws are
being violated...
 
	LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- An anti-nuclear demonstrator casually ambled on
stage while former President Ronald Reagan was accepting an award from
the National Association of Broadcasters, grabbed the crystal statue
from the podium and smashed it. Secret Service Agents tackled the man
and Reagan was unharmed.
 
...Too bad..foiled again.  I think Regan just may well be immortal.


Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7744 talk.politics.drugs:2972
From: kg1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Paul Goldman)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: WARNING ! Hot New Drug of Abuse
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:24:20 GMT
Organization: Junior, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


>A local TV station located in West Palm Beach FL. (WFLX) reported in a
>news broadcast just a couple of day ago that there was a new and
>dangerous mind-altering substance being abused by the Jr. and Sr. High
>school students there. This fearsome substance was ... get this ... AIR
! >Apparently, the practice of hyperventilation is now in vogue. It
makes >you tingly and dizzy and, best of all, is FREE.

Sarcasm aside, It goes to show that in today's hi-tech, hi-stress world
people are just going to want to get high. ( no pun intended ) You
cannot deny them this pleasureable release from reality. When will our
government understand that people can use drugs and not just abuse them?
When will they understand that is our unalienable right, and need to
escape society for a few precious hours every week? Never unless we
stand up and make them realize that is what we want and will vote for,

as Bob Marley once said :"Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your rights" .
Don't vote for the lesser evil, vote for what you believe in. That's the
only way you can make a difference. Don't throw away your vote on
something you don't believe in, make it count. 

Peace,


Mongo

Major: Kegology, Zygmetry minor
College : The College of H & N 0 Stress...
                                              2
"Once in your life you get shown the light, in the strangest of places
if you look at it right..." GDEAD
"Nothing Left to do but smile,smile,smile..." GDEAD
"These aren't candy..." Mike Cooper
"Whiskey, all you can drink..." Karim Hussain
Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7325 talk.politics.drugs:2774
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Fully Informed Jury Association (Pamphlet)
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 18:34:36 GMT

hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Hager) writes:
: 
: Jurors can be rejected "for cause" during the voir dire procedure
: (questioning jurors to determine their fitness to serve).  An
: example of this would be a capital case where a prosecutor's
: _pro forma_ question of a prospective juror would be whether (s)he
: had a problem with rendering a death penalty verdict.  A "yes"
: answer would indicate bias and the juror would be excused.
: The defense can also ferret out bias in the same way.
: 
: There are also preemptory challenges which allow the prosecution
: and defense to excuse jurors for any reason at all -- blue eyes,
: for instance.  These challenges, however, are limited in number.
: 
: It is a bad idea to lie during voir dire.  However, creative
: truth telling may get you by the process.  

Yep. In the example given - if the prosecutor asks if you had a problem
with rendering a death penalty verdict - you could say "No, not if the
person is guilty and deserves the death penalty". Of course, this could
backfire. Either the defense attorney might misread your statement, or
either of them might figure that you are too intelligent to serve on the
jury. They could then use a preemptory challenge to excuse you.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
Subject: Re: Legality question concerning spores
Keywords: mushrooms, spores, legal, legality
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:20:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.190922.4173@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rdm31671@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Raymond D. Meredith) writes:
>across state lines?  I just don't understand how these companies can sell
>something that might be used for illegal purposes (namely the growing of
>psychedelic mushrooms!)

We're not yet so far gone as to be unable to buy and sell crowbars,
acetylene torches, handguns, lithium aluminum hydride, or other items
"that might be used for illegal purposes".  I hope we never will, but
we've come close on the last two, at least.

>Raymond D. Meredith                    - Keeping the world safe for
>rdm31671@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                gonzo computing.

   Eli   ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
From: drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Asset Forfeiture and You
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:11:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr8.031103.19688
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


	I have little or no idea what to do if involved with officers of
law concerning illicit ingestible substances, but this is okay as I am not
one who frequently has such substances. But it is obvious that I can
suffer the weight of the law _without_ ever having done anything illegal
(see Confiscation of Suspected Drug Monie or Goods). 
	Is there anything that can or should be done in such a situation
such as co-operating, resisting, insisting on receipt for goods, or
generally making a scene? In other words, what is the best response to
confiscation of goods (temporarily begging the question of guilt)?

	Of possible are some stories I heard while in Boulder Co.
Supposedly at least two people this guy knew are on house arrest. The
way this is currently done is that electronic surveiallance devices are
are attatched to victims that report the subjects location. Also, 
supposedly another guy lost large amount of money ($10.000) due to 
confiscation. He is a nursery owner and was on his way to a supplier in 
a different citie. Apparently the airline made a mistake and booked his
return flight for 1 hour after his arrival. With this information I became
suspicious that the suspect was actually guilty as it is hard to believe
an airline making a mistake like that...unless the airlines are receiving
bounties for reporting suspects, which is apparently the case. Anyway,
apparently the police confiscated his monie for the combination of
circumstances as following: paid for tickets in cash, round trip with very
short stay time, and going to and from a large citie. So, avoid these
circumstances whether or _not_ you are involved in illicit activies. 
	I wonder, though, why the officials didn't tag him instead of 
nabbing him. That way they could have also gotten a chance at the supplier.
I mean, officals couldn't possibly be interested only in making money,
could they?
-dwk
Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7569 misc.legal:9227
From: randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Legal Cocaine? (WAS Re: Drug legalization)
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:59:59 GMT
Organization: The Internet

phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
> From memory, I don't believe the cocaine was being used as a topical
> anasthetic.  I wish I had the article handy, but I don't.  If anyone has
> access to back issues of Science News (an index is published every six
> months, so it should be easy to find the article if all the back issues
> are there), could one or more people look up this article?

Whatever the Science News says, I have first hand information.  I know an
opthomologist that uses cocaine daily.  8-)

No, not like that.  At least I don't think so.  They use it as a local
(topical) anestetic for eye surgery.  The primary benefit of cocaine in
surgery is that it dialates the blood capillaries and reduces bleeding. 
The reduced blood loss benefits the patient for obvious reasons and it
benefits the sturgeon because he can see what the hell he's doing.  It
also allows more time for the surgical process because of the above
benefits.  The same sturgeon seems to think that healing is faster too. 
That is only his opinion.  There is no supporting empirical evidence. 

That capillary vessel dialation is the primary cause of deviated septums
in frequent cocaine users.  The constant absence of blood to the nose
causes those cells to die and not get replaced by normal cell division. 
Deviated septums are holes in the dividing membrane that keeps your
nostrils apart.  So the moral is: don't do coke, you'll look a bit
strange with one nose hole. :O)  Oink.

Cheers!

- randy

randy@rls.uucp  <backbone>!osu-cis!rls!randy  rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
It's a fax from your dog, Mr. Dansworth.  It looks like your cat.  - Larson
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: "Paul Hager" <hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Paul Hager -- candidate??
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 11:15:37 -0500

	An article that appeared in today's Bloomington Herald-Times
has opened up whole new vistas for political activism.  The article
is about a Congressional candidate who is running graphic anti-abortion
ads AS PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN!  According to I.U. Law Professor and
communications law expert, Fred Cate:

	"Any broadcaster who broadcasts over the air is required
	by federal law to make available a reasonable amount of
	time for legally qualified political candidates.  They
	are forbidden from editing anything that's shown during
	that time."

In other words, if I or some other HCRC member became a "legally
qualified candidate" we could air our pro-legalization commercials
as part of the campaign.  I've already thought of some one minute
versions of the commercials which have lead-ins excoriating TCI's
hypocrisy and saying nasty things about their stock shenanigans and
monopolistic practices before playing the commercials that they
banned.

	So, the new tactic for activists: RUN FOR OFFICE.  Run
for office and then air the ads that the swine would have otherwise
prohibited.  Who knows, you might even get elected.

-- 
paul hager		hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
			-- Thomas Paine, _The Age of Reason_
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: eno@leland.Stanford.EDU (Benedict Dugan)
Subject: Ecstasy FAQ request.
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 00:45:06 GMT


Subject line says it all.  
If it exists, I'd be interested.

Thanks,
Ben


Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Subject: Re: More drug testing
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:46:00 GMT

bob@cs.yale.edu (Bob Dobbs) writes:
>I heard a new twist on beating drug tests today.  A friend of mine swears 
>that 
>he passed his drug test (one week to the day after smoking herb) solely 
>because
>he ate three cucumbers the day before his test.  Is there any way in hell 
>that
>this is true?  Maybe we should start a new group: 
>alt.urban.folklore.beating.drug.tests?

If he didn't smoke at all before that one week, it was probably just
a sufficient amount of time for his body to lower the metabolites to an
undetectible level.

-- 
Lamont Granquist  lamontg@u.washington.edu  (anon: ap.4497@layout.berkeley.edu)
University of Washington, Seattle.    Disc: if UW ever finds out what I post... 
alt.drugs FTP site: milton.u.washington.edu[128.95.136.1] dir:/public/alt.drugs
               For quotes and other useless info see my .plan
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson)
Subject: Re: Asset Forfeiture and You
Keywords: RICO, Asset Forfeiture, Drugs, Money
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:47:09 GMT

In article <rlh87INNnbv@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J. Kruse) writes:
>> travelers checks vs. cash
>Yes they can take your travelers checks from you if they suspect that
>they were purchased with drug money, but I don't see how the police will
>be able to deposit the checks.   Travelers checks are not money orders,
>they need a matching signature on the bottom of the check before they
>are deposited into ones account.   This brings up an interesting point.
>What procedure would the police have to go through to get the travelers
>checks cashed?   I assume that they would need a court order to force
>the issuer of the checks to cash them without a signature.   I don't
>think the police can force a person to sign their own seized checks.

Couldn't that be considered a form of duress?  (and aren't signatures under
duress considered invalid?)

Here's an idea:  If you ever anticipate money being seized, tear it up.  If you
can't have the money, be sure that it won't be used to buy the D.A.
a new Porsche, or aid the WoD in any way.  (even if you're innocent, you're
likely not to get it back anyway.)

-marc
andersom@spot.colorado.edu

>--
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>|\ |_| | \ |_  |    (_|  |\ | \ |_| ._) |_    kkruse@matt.ksu.edu
>Disclaimer:  My views do represent those of the university and of CNS
>             and if they don't they soon will!


Newsgroups: alt.drugs,misc.legal,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.drugs
From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Subject: Re: All Drugs WILL Be Legalized!!!
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 18:49:12 GMT

In <1992Apr13.171817.12178@bradley.bradley.edu> dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
>I'm surprised the racists haven't decided to jump on the bandwagon.  Here
>in Peoria, the area is swarming with jacked up Cadillacs and Lincoln Town
>Cars with tinted windows, gold trim, gold wire wheels, wide tires, and huge
>hood ornaments.  There's no way, considering Peoria's present economy, that
>these people (mostly young black males) could have that kind of money from
>legitimate sources.  Hell, if drugs were legal, they'd have to actually
>work for a living, and their profits would be next to nothing compared to
>what they're getting now.  Legalization would put blacks back on the bottom
>rung of the income ladder.

Considering that you have not gone out and done any kind of survey,
this gross generalization is racist in and of itself.

Sorry, but the racists who will admit to being racists would rather
put them in jail and get rid of them entirely.  Fascism would be a
small price to pay, just look at Germany.

On the other hand, you would just relegate them to "the bottom rung
of the ladder".

It's painfully obvious that you are from a small hick town in rural Missouri.

Think before you post.
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
                 Practical Ego Annihilation for the Zen Novice
        1) bang head against wall in a steady shuffle rhythm for 8 hours
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: uk02700@nx08.mik.uky.edu (mitchell e french)
Subject: Re: Mushroom info?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:59:17 GMT
X-Bytes: 

In article <1992Apr15.163543.5656@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>  
drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin) writes:
> 	How do mushrooms reproduce? If they reproduce asexully (spores),
> then does that mean that all members of a given species are genetically
> indentical?
> -dwk

	Well, this Mushroom has never reproduced, so this is all  
assumption, not scientific fact...but I assume sexually.  
	(The spores are just for fun. :)

:)
Mushroom
*pouf*
Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7801 talk.politics.drugs:2997
From: kitsch@milton.u.washington.edu (Ted Fitch)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Quiz Bowl: We are in finals
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:12:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr16.221221.25332
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Apr16.010114.4720@news.cs.indiana.edu> hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Hager) writes:
>
>	We won our second round game, although a more accurate
>description would be that the other team lost.  It was, nonetheless,
>a comfortable win.
>
>	The only thing eventfull that happened was on one question.
>The question began:
>
>	"The category is science: Alexei Leonov ...
>
>I buzzed in.  I said, Alexei Leonov was a Soviet Cosmonaut and the
>first human to walk in space.  There was silence.  The moderator
>asked for the judges to rule.  I said, "Soviet Union ... USSR ..."
>I was prodding them.  Finally they allowed it but then the moderator
>said that Alexei Leonov was the first human to go into space.  I
>said, that was wrong -- Leonov took the first space walk and that
>Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, the first to orbit the
>earth.  She said that her answer sheet said "first man in space."
>I decided that I might as well drop it as we got credit for the
>answer but I muttered something like, "Yuri Gagarin was first --
>April the 12th, 1961."  After the round I talked to the director
>of the Quiz Bowl and she showed me her answer sheet.  Same thing
>about Leonov.  I asked her about challenging a question and she
>said there was a mechanism for it.
>
>I'm going to take an independent source in tomorrow and show
>them that their information is in error.  Either they misread
>the book or the book is wrong.  This sort of thing makes me
>very uncomfortable.             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Of course, we all know that anything printed on paper must be correct.
If the quiz bowl had the information written down as such, it must
be the right answer!

Jusk joking.  I agree.  However, this sort of mentality not only makes me 
uncomfortable, but scares the hell out of me.  It represents a type
of hirearchy (sp?) where validation in the form of printed material
takes precedence over words.  SCARY!  What happens when errors in
high school history books get past editors?  Maybe the reason the
quiz bowl sheet was incorrect was because the source was in error?

just my $.02.

Ted
Xref: sparky alt.drugs:7586 talk.politics.drugs:2892
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: just a question
Keywords: kids, legalization
Date: 3 Apr 92 01:48:03 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art,. Athens

In article <1992Mar23.023157.709@cis.ohio-state.edu> hware@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (henry william ware) writes:

>However, if lotsa people are growing MJ, how will it be 
>possible to restrict the use of MJ by under-age persons?

I would not be surprised to see MJ legalized in the near future.
However, I seriously doubt that it will be legal to grow your own.
As the tobacco industries watch their markets shrink they are going
to look for a new product. Remember, it's legal to purchase and
use tobacco if you are an adult but very illegal to grow your 
own. You need a permit to grow tobacco and even then you are limited
as to who you can sell it to. I believe that only the established
cigarette producers can legally buy your tobacco. I hope this
information is correct. I didn't get it from law books but from
some good old boys who have been "growing their own" for years and
one man who legally grows a plot of tobacco.

Bob Church
bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu



-- 
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*    bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu           *
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: markm@wri.com
Subject: Re: 60 Minutes piece on the Forfeiture Law
Reply-To: markm@wri.com
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:40:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.005044.1053@javelin.sim.es.com>  
tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (tim clinkenpeel) writes:
> the constitutionality of 'civil forfeiture' is comming up for
> review by the supreme court in, i believe, june or july.  i might
> be off by a year.
> 
> unfortunately, i do not recall where i acquired this
> information.  may have been time magazine.

According to the 60 Minutes story, a Congressional Committee will be meeting  
later this year to review civil forfeiture.  They mentioned nothing about who  
will sit on the committee.  Now's the time to write to your congress-critter  
and let them know how you feel about the law.  Their addresses are always  
available at your local post office.

--Mark
From: kg1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Paul Goldman)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Hempless History - Can you help?
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:34:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Junior, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>The same story goes for north-central Indiana.  I believe the Indiana
>State Police hire students each fall to round this up and then they have
>a large bonfire to dispose of it.  The public is not invited...

I've heard that police will throw in a fewold tires so no one can
breathe in that smoke and get high, at least not without poisoning
themselves. Wonderful for our enviroment......




Mongo

Major: Kegology, Zygmetry minor
College : The College of H & N 0 Stress...
                                              2
"Once in your life you get shown the light, in the strangest of places
if you look at it right..." GDEAD
"Nothing Left to do but smile,smile,smile..." GDEAD
"These aren't candy..." Mike Cooper
"Whiskey, all you can drink..." Karim Hussain
From: 891034d@ace.acadiau.ca (PETER F. DEARMAN)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: They Know! (Part II)
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:04:42 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

>>I saw someone mentioning something about the (somewhat paranoic) thought
>>that music/tv/radio knows about the altered states intimately, and is using
>>this to their advantage (and yours?).  I just want to state that this is not
>>such a paranoic state: I know for a fact that Pink Floyd knows (at least
>>knew).  Listen to any of their stuff (esp.  earlier works like UmmaGumma &
>>Meddle) and tell me that I lie.  Just try it.  Believe me, they *know*.  And

>Meddle:  GOD... I listened to this the first time I tripped.  I
>tripped hard, in the company of a doctor of altered states whom I
>trusted implicitly.

>>Other groups that seem to know IMHO, are Chris & Cosey, Drop Acid, and other
>>alternative acts.  In fact, isn't alternative music a good word for it?
>>Just take 'alter', lift it out and add 'ed' & 'states'.  :-)

>I find the techno music such as 808 state is actually very upsetting
>to me when I'm exploring.  It is so... hard and almost emotionaless
>because the music has none of the natural breathing of music performed
>by real humans.  The precision beat is just too rigid... at least for
>me.  Your mileage may vary... 

>amy

I recommend Pink Floyd live at Pompei.  They sure as hell knew stuff then.  
Really.  Try it.  I think it's their crowning achievement as far as 
communicating mind states thru music.

Some other stuff to listen to when you want to be similarly enlightened is:
	1) Sonic Youth!!! - especially Sister album.
	2) Dinosaur Jr.
	3) tape hiss (really)
	4) Butthole Surfers
	5) CAN
	6) The Crucifucks - Wisconsin album
	7) Brian Eno - Here come the warm jets (album)
	8) Industrial music is really neato too if you're feeling energized.

Anyone else have some favourites to share?