<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Herb Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:HerbM@learnquick.com">HerbM@learnquick.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">





<div align="left" dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><strong>To Spike and Dirk:</strong></span></font></div>
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<div align="left" dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff"><span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"><span>Spike wrote (earlier):<br>> > 
</span>recreationals, but not to LSD.  The 60s are over, it was 
bad</span><span class="q"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"><span>>> </span>medicine then, still is now.  Put 
that stuff away, too dangerous.</span></span></strong></span></font></div><span class="q">
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<div align="left" dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span><strong>Dirk wrote:</strong></span></font></div>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><span>> </span>I disagree.<br><span>> </span>IMO the benefits far outweigh the possible 
dangers.<br><span>> </span>I'd also say that when it 
comes to damage most other drugs are worse - and this certainly includes 
alcohol.</font></font></font><br></font></div></span>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong>What dangers?  Compare any supposed 
'possible dangers' to smoking<br>drugs (marijuana, tobacco) or to other 
drugs ingested orally such<br>as alcohol etc.... (both legal and commonly 
acceptable.)</strong></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Seriously:  I once did a thorough review of the 
academic literature<br>of LSD "dangers" and found that there were practically 
none (except</font></strong></span></div>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">for the obvious issues with operating automobiles and 
heavy machinery),</font></strong></span></div>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">and </font></strong></span><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">that most 
of the supposed problems were actually urban myths.</font></strong></span></div>
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<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">So please be specific if you know of actual problems 
stemming directly</font></strong></span></div>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><span><strong><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">from such use...</font></strong></span></div></blockquote><div><br>
There are two dangers.<br>
The one most commonly considered is the triggering of psychotic episodes in vulnerable people eg borderline schizophrenics.<br>
</div>The other is less easy to quantify or even describe. It is
unhappiness at having your worldview shattered, and not being able to
piece together one as satifying as the previous set of illusions.<br>
<br>
Dirk<br></div><br>