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From: mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading)
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 00:15:34 EDT
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> 
> I would just like to say that if one hit of pot keeps you high for
> one monthe I know a lot of people who would be a lot richer right now.
> All the money they had been wasting just because they didn't realize that
> they were still high.
> 
It's true; one hit of pot gets you high for a month.  You don't feel it;
just like you could be under the influence of alcohol and not be drunk, but
be unfit to work or drive.
> Alcohol is non-addictive, huh?  Please explain that to me when I have a
> one in four chance of inheriting this non-addiction genetically.  Some of the
> members of my family have the ability to metabolize alcohol in to a form
> of morphine( I do believe that is addictive). Don't tell me that my chances
> of becoming addicted relate more to my home environment (psychological)
>  than my genes (physical) because
> I have not lived with any of these people for any length of time.
> 
Alcohol is non-addictive to most people.  Some people like you are addicted to
alcohol and therefore you can't drink.  Your chances relate more to genes than
enviorment for this disease, like alcoholism.  It's possible that alcoholics
are alcoholics because their body turns alcohol (a non-addictive drug in itself)into morphine (an addictive drug).