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To: E. Charters who wrote (91237)	11/20/2011 4:59:25 PM
From: grusum	3 Recommendations Respond to of 233785

i'll reply on your thread in a little while.

To: E. Charters who wrote (91237)	11/20/2011 5:23:34 PM
From: marcos	2 Recommendations Respond to of 233785

We need a new drug ... this follows from the theory of Niall Ferguson in a Beeb piece, that the energy and drive toward Empire was in part stimulated by the need of the british sweet tooth for cane sugar, combined with the new drugs caffeine and nicotine, producing a speedy focussed sugar buzz that allowed users to outperform those still reliant principally on the old european downer drug ethanol ... facts are that far more stately country homes of the time were built on sugar fortunes than were built by gold So clearly, to kill as many birds as possible with our stone [heh heh], the thing to do is develop a soma appropriate to our age, that can be grown only in ground-up Howe St sharepaper