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- From: mcoffin@reed.edu (Miguel De Laguna)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: A question. . .
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225617.2037@reed.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:56:17 GMT
- References: <j1moody-281292163022@hesmac12.hesburgh.lab.nd.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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- In article <j1moody-281292163022@hesmac12.hesburgh.lab.nd.edu> j1moody@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Joe Moody) writes:
- >In a country where instant gratification is such a high demand,
- >why has the national pass time of other countries--the smoking of
- >opium--not
- >become popular here?
-
- Seems to me that the smoking of opium is not not nearly as instantly
- gratifying as the American public demands. In these days of 24-7
- convenience and ATMs, the obvious instant gratification drugs are cocaine
- (either in your arm, or in your pipe) and heroine (in your arm). Yes,
- needle drugs are at the top of the instant gratification scale, smoke is too
- slow...
-
- _Miguel_
-