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Skriven 2006-06-22 08:18:14 av Danny Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: prescription problems
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-> On 19 Jun 06  12:44:59, Alan Hess got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: prescription problems

 DC> Just count the various drug ads on TV.  And, bear in mind, the 
 DC> bulk of the drugs used at those parties are from legal 
 DC> prescriptions found lying around in their parents' houses.  

 AH> Yet, amazingly enough, people were taking drugs to alter reality
 AH> before TV, radio, movies, newspapers, and any form of mass
 AH> communication was invented.  For example, The Original Testament is
 AH> thousands of years old, yet the use of wine and other alcoholic drink
 AH> is mentioned in it.  I'm sure that wasn't the only mind-altering
 AH> substance people used back then.  Perhaps the desire to get an
 AH> occasional high is a natural thing, which is only a problem when done
 AH> too often or at inappropriate times?  *adh* 

The main difference seems to be in how those drugs are processed.  

There is a big difference between wine and its counterpart, 
distilled liquors.  Wine is a natural progression of the very 
act of storing grape juice.  Next comes the brewing of beer.  (The 
beer brewing process arguably marks the beginning of civilization.)  
And, then there is the much more advanced process of distillation.  

Of note is that of the use of coca leaves as compared to cocaine.  
Tbose that harvest the leaves chew them as they harvest them.  But, 
IIRC, the dosage they get in a day is 1,000th that snorted in a single 
line of the processed drug.  

Worse, nowadays, people are designing not just medicinal drugs but 
"recreational" drugs.  


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