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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Inappropriate comments about drugs
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 21:10:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 21:10:11 1986
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[ Again, followups are being redirected to net.misc ]

In article <1973@videovax.UUCP> stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>the wreckage left by these so-called "safe" drugs.  Remember Red Skelton's
>daughter, who stepped out a fifth-floor window while on "safe" LSD?
>
I thought it was Art Linkletters daughter.  Perhaps this is an urban
legend?

>A high-school friend of mine had LSD slipped into his beer by a so-called
>"friend" during the ecstatic early days of acid's popularity.  The bad

If you read my posting again, you will see that I said LSD, *when*
*properly* *used* is not anywhere near as bad as its reputation, and
is reasonable safe.  Your example is not a case of proper use.

[ He is now reponding to John Gilmore ]
>What is the cost/benefit ratio to individuals and to our society of each
>activity?  Why is it that teenagers (and others) regularly die on the
>streets of Portland of drug overdoses, yet I haven't (in the eleven years
>I've been here) heard of an accidental death caused by a scarf?

How many deaths have you heard of from beer?  Or from smoking?  How can
you justify these being legal and lsd and marijuana being illegal?

[ He now seems to be reponding to both myself and John Gilmore ]
>Nice try, guys -- redirecting the conversation to net.nobody-knows-where!

Because net.micro.amiga is not the right place, as you say below.

>My request was simple.  This is net.micro.amiga, whose purpose is to
>disseminate information about the use (and abuse) of Amigas.  If you
>want to tell fairy stories about drugs and encourage gullible people to
>use them, please do it on net.rec.drugs or some other place where it
>belongs.

I used a followup-To line in my article.  Why did you bring the topic
back to net.micro.amiga?
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