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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] addiction<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Yes, food addiction is a crisis right now and yet people have decided to enable it with "healthy at any size" movements. I didn't see any "healthy at any dose of dope" movements around when I was a junkie...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Will, with that comment, I see you never lost your sensa huma. Good for you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding that research I did after the previous discussion, I saw there is continued interest in microdosing. Well OK then, I have an idea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From what I saw, there is a sugar cube involved somewhere: a drop of this substance is put on a sugar cube, the tripster devours the cube and off he goes to visit the colorful rooms and, etc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The microdosing experiment works like this. A drop of the test substance on each of two sugar cubes. You devour the one, I verify you are having a good time out there wherever you went. A rule of thumb holds that there are about 20 drops per milliliter, so about 50 ml is about a thousand drops and 50 liters is about a million drops. Micro means millionth. The sugar cube contains one drop. So… you devour one of the cubes, I fill a bathtub with about 50 liters of water, drop the other sugar cube in there, stir, wait a few minutes, take one drop of solution from the tub, drop that on a sugar cube, devour. I have a microdose, in an experiment that even I would consider sufficiently safe. I have serious doubts about whether a microdose would actually do anything more than the placebo, but hey, it’s safe and besides that, I can wax really creative when I want to. It is simultaneously a talent and a character flaw.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>None of this has anything to do with depression or addiction in my case, for I have been mercifully spared from both those maladies (depending on how I count my hopeless coffee addiction (which is complicated by the fact that it isn’t the usual suspect, caffeine which has me writhing helplessly in its gripping talons (for I can devour decaffeinated coffee and still get satisfaction (and do go thru a can once in a while just to remind myself that I can (I still prefer the real thing.))))) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do love my coffee, hot and black, nothing in it, just the pure rich substance which permeates the senses, awakens the enthusiasm for life, in a kind of a psychological bond of some sort. Coffee just tastes like morning to me, it smells like victory. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-right:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>