<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">To me, the main dangers are dealing with law enforcement and the lesser level of quality control because such substances are illegal. In other words, dangers arising from drug prohibition and not from the substances themselves.<div><br></div><div>Imagine history were a little different and the Puritanical anti-recreational drug culture never arose or lacked legal enforcement of its whims. Then by now, there'd probably be much more progress in developing better recreational and psychoactive drugs. We might be talking about advances that happened before some of us (me, for instance) were born instead of losing decades of research because of prohibition. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m not disagreeing with you here — just trying to emphasize wherein the big dangers are.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 8, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 20:26 spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-</a><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-1881871852612095252WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sounds like a dangerous way to have fun to me.<br></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-1881871852612095252WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Dangerous how? Cannabis and LSD have extremely low toxicity, several levels of magnitude below e.g. alcohol. MDMA can definitely be dangerous especially because of cuts and uninformed use, but it tends to be fairly safe as well if pure and used in low doses. </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>