XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics, alt.drugs, alt.drugs.rfg   
   XPost: rec.drugs.psychedelic   
      
   On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:07:09 -0500, "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   >> "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski" wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Very acute observation of the totally obvious.  By calling DXM a   
   >>>> psychedelic, it does become an enticement to those seeking a high,   
   >>>> including kids.  As a matter of fact, RFG has made it a   
   >>>> long-standing agenda to call DXM a psychedelic, suggesting a   
   >>>> similarity with such drugs as LSD.  If the intent is harm   
   >>>> reduction, then there should be an attempt to remove any   
   >>>> association with a popularly abused drug class.   
   >>>   
   >>>    Why should I deny the truth? Just because LSD has a very bad   
   >>> reputation doesn't mean I should lie and say DXM isn't a psychedelic   
   >>> drug.   
   >>   
   >> For recreational drug users, LSD is gold.   
   >   
   >   Which recreational drug users? Seriously. The vast majority of people I   
   >have encountered faced to face who had taken LSD either thought it sucked,   
   >or just that it was uninteresting. What is your sample set for the data to   
   >make that statement? People who actually thought the Grateful Dead had   
   >serious musical talent? Note here that I am writing this as a person who   
   >personally has found LSD far more enjoyable as a drug than DXM. However, I   
   >am just one data point.   
   >   
      
   Then the vast majority of people that you have come face to face with   
   have had that reaction to LSD, as to think that, in so many word, it's   
   next to nothing, then they were getting crappy LSD, perhaps it was   
   old, stale or just plain not LSD.   
      
   >> DXM becomes a psychedelic   
   >> only at doses well above recommended therapeutic doses, does it not?   
   >   
   >   Huh? LSD becomes a psychedelic only well above recommended therapeutic   
   >doses, because of the fact that LSD was discarded by the medical profession   
   >decades ago as being therapeutically worthless. Thus the therapeutic dose of   
   >LSD is 0 mcg.   
      
   This really isn't an opposing argument to the question he posed.   
      
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