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To: Ish who wrote (34213)	8/6/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: ZinMaster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<<Low doses of atropine are medicinally useful. >> > Especially if you're about to be sprayed with nerve gas. > We used to carry premeasured doses in the army. Ho ho! There were quite a few compounds that were tried as nerve gas blockers. At one point the Canadian armed forces were copying the results of American and British tests and formulated their own anti-nerve-gas cocktail. They must have figured that if compound A works for Americans, and if compound B works for the British, then A + B = C should work for Canadians. Well....they manufactured umpteen thousands of these kits and distributed them before anyone got around to testing them on actual teenagers. Eventually some poor kid gave the stuff a try and had talk-to-god experience. Next thing you know, these kits are turning up missing at bases all over Canada and snowbound GIs are having 24-48 hour trips STP-style. Not the Andy Granatelli lubricant, but the DOM stuff....2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine if i remember correctly. I don't remember what went into Cocktail C, but it was reported in J. Pharm. Pharmacokinetics sometime in the early eighties. Interesting reading if you happen to be sitting around in the Med Library. -zm