Spirits (was RE: [extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.)

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Bruere
Subject: Re: Spirits (was RE: [extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.)


On 11/29/05, Herb Martin <HerbM at learnquick.com> wrote:
To Spike and Dirk:
 
Spike wrote (earlier):
> > recreationals, but not to LSD.  The 60s are over, it was bad
>> medicine then, still is now.  Put that stuff away, too dangerous.
 
Dirk wrote:
> I disagree.
> IMO the benefits far outweigh the possible dangers.
> I'd also say that when it comes to damage most other drugs are worse - and
this certainly includes alcohol.

What dangers?



The danger I had in mind is accidental overdose.  With 
alcohol it is possible to get a fatal overdose but it 
isn't common, same with marijuana.  I haven't heard of 
anyone overdosing on cocaine or the other opiates: when 
one gets enough of that stuff one gets dozy I would 
suppose, perhaps get too stoned to strike a match.

But with heroine and LSD, accidental overdose happens,
people die.  It takes so little LSD to trip out 
permanently, 12 milligrams = dead.  A hundred micrograms
the normal dosage: If you buy it in the liquid form, do
you trust some stoner to have measured the dosage 
correctly?  How do you control for impurities?  Dirk
do you really think that process isn't dangerous as
all hell?

That being said, I am one who believes that most
recreational drugs should be legal.  But I want to 
make like Dick Nixon and make one thing perfectly 
clear: my attitude is not the same as saying
that I believe people should use them.  I think
most people should leave them alone.  Making them
illegal introduces new dangers: the dosages are
controlled by dope dealers and stoners instead
of pharmacists, which invites overdosage, and 
of course introduces the danger of prison.  

spike