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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Free Drugs - (nf)
Message-ID: <1985@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 14:23:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 27 14:23:36 1983
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I think that there is a  more profound physical problem
with using drugs as a quick knockdown method that avoids
injury.  Bypassing the question of dosage for the minute,
let's consider the way that the dosage would have to be
injected.  

	In order to cause quick unconciousness, the
drug would have to be injected in such a way as to reach the brain
in a matter of seconds.  It seems to me that this means that the
drug would have to be injected either in the Aorta, or downstream
toward the brain.  If the drug were injected into, say, the abdominal
cavity, or the flesh over the buttocks, I believe, although I am
NOT a doctor, that there would be a considerable time lag (on the
order of several minutes, at least) before the drug took effect.

Please note that I am not a medical doctor, and I am NOT
rendering any sort of informed opinion, I am merely 
speculating on the problems facing the designer of
a drug "gun".

Comments?

rabbit!jj  (through harpo, allegra, eagle)