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From: glenn@c3pe.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...(alchohol is hallucinogenic?)
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 01:21:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 01:21:25 1986
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Summary: Alcohol hallucinogenic?  I don't think so...


I don't think alcohol is a hallucinogen, even though it alters perceptions.
I'll hit a dictionary later, but I suspect the definition is more precise
than that.  I do know that alcohol is a depressant.  The ways in which LSD
and alcohol alter perception are different.  Alcohol mainly subtracts, LSD
also largely distorts and "adds".  (I don't think it really adds any new
input, but rather that it removes "filtering" allowing you to see things 
that evolution has decided are too distracting (such as the movement of
blood cells in the eye).  I could be wrong.)  I'm not saying that alcohol
does not produce "hallucinations".  I am saying that that is not its main
effect on perception.  Does anyone know the physiological actions of the
two well enough to explain similarities/differences between their effects
on the brain itself?

					D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
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