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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: "ex" smokers of MJ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.011939.22620@galois.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
- References: <1992Nov17.05113 <1992Nov17.165507.22349@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <jah.722033314@mits>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:19:39 GMT
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- In article <jah.722033314@mits> jah@mits.mdata.fi (Jani A. Heinonen) writes:
- >aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
- >
- >> That's funny. Does the same thing to me. Always has. I could never
- >>understand the big deal made about it.
- >
- > Perhaps it's all just a mass delusion? It does help with relieving tension
- >and combatting some forms of anxiety. It also sometimes makes the surroundings
- >seem a little more interesting and occasionally induces funny thoughts.
- >However, it is neither as demonic or glorious as it is often claimed to be.
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- All a mass delusion? No way. Too many well-verified accounts of
- marijuana experiences verging on the hallucinatory for that... as I'm
- sure fellow netters will confirm. One really has to accept that what
- some drugs do is quite variable. With marijuana there may be both a
- "learning" effect -- people who only smoke a few times might not have
- intense experiences -- and a "burnout" or acclimatization effect --
- people who originally had far-out experiences while high may no longer
- after a while. Maybe you guys just burnt out before you caught on. :-)
- Seriously, I think it's all quite complicated and someday, when it's
- legal, people will write complicated tomes theorizing about it.
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