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From: colston@sixnine.gid.co.uk (Colston Sanger)
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Subject: Re: Future Drugs
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Date: 30 Jan 91 23:41:18 GMT
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>sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes, describing the hypothetical
>ideal recreational drug, excepting partial paralysis during the euphoric
>stage, and asks "Would the government make this drug illegal?"
>
Maybe not quite what was meant, but has anyone considered television as
a `drug'? . It is widely used for recreational purposes, induces  a
trance-like state of euphoria (sometimes?) as well as partial
paralysis... 

Would the government make this drug illegal? Well? Has it?

Colston Sanger
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