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From: scw@locus.ucla.edu (Stephen C Woods)
Newsgroups: net.followup,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: The war on drugs
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 12:55:01 EDT
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In article <937@tekig4.UUCP> maxg@tekig4.UUCP (Max Guernsey) writes:
>In article <7222@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>>Now, there are some drugs that *deserve* to be outlawed, at least to sell.
>>I refer to the *very* adicting(sic) and debilitating ones such as Heroin etc.

Actually Heroin is 'hardly' addicting at all, it was developed as a
'NONADDICTIVE' form of Morphine as an analgesic (which it is very good at,
unfortunatly political considerations disallow its use even for terminal
patients).  Herion's major advantages over MS (Morphine Sulfate) are
(1) Lower dose for a given level of pain killing, (2) Higher max dose,
(3) Lower toxicity and (4) Lower addictiveness.
Herion is said (I can't remember where but I believe it was in a
Medical Journal) to be about as addictive as Nicotine (that is it's
about the same to kick Heroin as Cigaretts).

On the other hand there are drugs which are 'Addicting and debilitating'
I refer specificly to the new 'designer' drugs,  some research has shown
that 'synthetic heroin' can produce the onset of Parkinson's in
as few as 10 hits.

>I disagree, all drugs should be available to anybody.  Someone who gets
>involved with the *very* addicting and debilitating drugs soon becomes
>an ex-social problem and if we're lucky they won't add to the gene pool
>either.

"Consider it evolution in action." - Jerry Pournell.


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