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From: marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th ( really drug safety )
Message-ID: <360@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 18:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 12 18:11:00 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jun-86 05:50:45 EDT
References: <402@bu-cs.UUCP> <108@gumby.UUCP> <1239@dual.UUCP> <287@gumby.UUCP> <367@hsi.UUCP>
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Summary: "Drugs" != "Evil"

In article <367@hsi.UUCP>, licsak@hsi.UUCP (Don Licsak) writes:
> > 	Why are hallugenic drugs so bad? I would imagine that the ratio of
> 
> All right! Spoken like a true druggy. Keep doing your "hits". Drop a little
[...] <many exxagerations about the evils of altered states of conciousness
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	Well, I don't know.... Have you ever read Huxley's _Island_ ?
Or heard about the Native American Chuch ?  Properly used, these substances
can be a "short-cut" to what has been refered to as the transcendental
experience; a state of mind that otherwise takes much practice and
training to achieve at will.  Marijuana, a mild hallucinogen, has a 
long history of use to help poor laborers work long hours at menial
work, like sugar cane picking.  (I mean it makes the time pass more pleas-
antly, I guess).  Now, mankind has been attempting to alter its 
conciousness since pre-history.  These substances present an 
oppurtunity to do so in a (YES!) non-physically harmful manner.  It
is easy to document that in terms of physical damage, LSD,THC,et.al.,
are less harmful than say, alcohol.

                             "You're either *on* the bus or *off* the bus",
                                                        W.rat
p.s.- hey,remember "Turn on,tune in, and drop out " ?
#include <disclaimers re: not condoning drug use, employers vs. my opinions,etc.>