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- From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Subject: Re: legalization of Britons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.024642.2936@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 02:46:42 GMT
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- cblanc@pomona.claremont.edu (Malevolessence) writes:
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- >>
- >> Well since the vast majority of people take drugs everyday the problem
- >> would seem to me to be that of convincing Americans that some of the drugs
- >> which are currently illegal are not as harmful as they believe, or in some
- >> cases harmless or even beneficial. This is *not* an easy task. Given the
- >> current state of hysteria the only people who will believe this are long
- >> time users of these drugs who *are* the proof and few people will believe
- >> them. I was recently told by the best known psychiatrist in Houston, TX
-
- > Who? Could you give us a name for this dude? If so, I'll tell you if
- >he's a fuckup or not. Collective experience of a private high school with more
- >substance problems than Great Britain...
-
- Dr. James Wetcher of Wetcher clinic fame. Believe me is a fuck up. He saw
- me for 15 minutes and had already figured out from one IQ test and one
- Rorshosch (ink blot) all kinds of clinical bullshit. He decided I had
- eleveted IQ which I used to charm people and con them. Everybody who knows
- me alughs there head off at this. I tried to get a copy of his diagnosis
- but he wouldn't give it out. Knows enough to protect himself I guess.
-
- >> that it is *not* unusual for people two go insane by trying LSD one time.
- >> This is the accepted medical wisdom. He also told me that Marijuana was
- >> very harmful and could make you less intelligent. I'm sure he honestly
- >> believes this and it does no good to call everyone who disagrees with your
- >> position on drug legalization stupid or conspirators of some kind. These
- >> are good honest people. Subtle but constant persuasion is the best. Point
- >> out the counter example, gently educate people to the great literature of
- >> psychedelic mysticism from Aldous Huxley, William Blake yes even Leary can
-
- > To the main point of this reply: What drugs, if any, did Blake do?
- >THis is curiousity, not combat (neither is the above) because Blake farily
- >rocks...
-
- I think mostly shrooms - food of the Gods. Could be wrong though.
-
- >> help. Don't give up but realize that things are not going to change right
- >> away. Pushing too hard always has the opposite effect from what the pusher
- >> is trying to achieve and the truth has a way of somehow coming out.
- >>
- >>
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