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Subject: Re: Mescaline (Re: The War on Drugs-1 year old today)
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Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 00:53:00 EST
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In response to <12331 LABREA>:
     
I'll agree that it's certainly a societal problem that people take PCP and
"crack" and the more destructive of illegal drugs.  However, my article
concerned mescaline, which is proven to cause virtually no damage whatsoever
and is safely and legally used by certain of the American Indian tribes.
     
It is certainly not "self-destructive" to wish to use a virtually harmless
substance.
     
I think that in the whole you are right, though.  I'm just grumbling about
a relatively minor point in the argument, and one which stems from the fact
that you were not directly responding to my argument, but indirectly through
Eric Mading's article.