XPost: sci.med.cardiology, alt.drugs.chemistry, alt.drugs.abuse   
   XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: daniel.p@videotron.ca   
      
   Zee wrote:   
      
   > The prescription, the pseudonyms, are the only difference. The   
   > American pilots in Afghanistan that killed the Canadian troops were   
   > high on "go pills" which are dexidrine (amphetimine). But they can't   
   > be bad becaue they were PRESCRIBED, and called GO PILLS not SPEED.   
      
   dexedrine is dextro amphetamine. It is prescribed for attention deficit   
   disorder. It's not the samething as amphetamine.   
      
   > This is what society does, they classify people by everything, even   
   > their drugof choice. The potheads, the junkies, the speedfreaks...the   
   > good   
   > folk with their 'drink', valium, benzodiazapines, anti-depressants. We   
   > have the moral majority and their favorite "drink" -- ethanol; notice   
   > ethanol is not   
   > called a drug it is a DRINK (for the taste only).   
   >   
   > So, if a doctor prescribes it or injects it it is fine, if we   
   > self-medicate we are evil.  Never mind that your father is an   
   > alcoholic only we don't call him that cause he's an oil exec and not   
   > passed out under the tree in the park.   
   > Nah. He passes out at home after terrifying his kids.   
   >   
   > John's a junky because he bought his drug on the street.. Mothers   
   > little helpers, back pills, nerve pills....I have heard them all used   
   > by the same people that talk about putting pot smokers in jail.   
   > Anyway, moralizing is the privilege of the normals and the chosen. God   
   > loves a good and decent person. I know he must because he keeps trying   
   > to rid the world of all the rest of the people in the most gruesome   
   > and painful and seemingly arbitrary manner...   
   >   
   > The moralizing is a byproduct of egotism and zenophobia."   
   >   
   > From a conversation with a friend. Zee   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)