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To: Dayuhan who wrote (77116)	4/6/2000 11:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

>Secure people with common sense don't go beyond dabbling in those waters.< In the case of opiates I am inclined to agree. In the case of amphetamines, I think there is room for sensible, well-adjusted people to have a habit sneak up on them. Amphetamines and cocaine are unique in the drug world in that they don't light up the "I'm on a drug" awareness. And sometimes people in high-stress jobs (truck drivers, farmers) gain such short-term benefit from the stimulant boost that they stay exposed long enough to build a pretty destructive habit. These are well-meaning folk I'm talking about here, people who otherwise never took drugs in their life, and therefore perhaps didn't know what they are in for. Ironically, if coca were smoked, it would probably be as widely accepted as tobacco. Both are stimulants, neither robs function in slow steady doses, and the addicts continue to fit into society without trouble. The ill effects of smoking come from putting all that tar into the lungs; very little long-term toxicity is actually the nicotine. The Indians who chewed coca to get them through the day aren't reported to have fallen into the abyss that characterizes hi-does stimulant abuse ("speed runs"). <edit> Full house grub, sevens over aces