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I started compiling a list of artists whose work has been influenced by drugs but gave up when I realised it extended to fictional characters, some of high repute and character. Step forward Sherlock Holmes, opium fiend. But then wasn't everyone in the Victorian era? I'd be interested in knowing why opium became stigmatised - something vaguely related to the prohibition of alcohol, maybe? Just look where *that* got us. Whether these authors (or characters) would have been physically better off without any sort of habit is debatable, but literature would be a sight poorer if they had kicked their habits. A friend of mine bought some E at Glastonbury; an hour later, his hang-over was cured. Roger. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mindfight" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 16:12 Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug.... > E is illegal and therefore not MDMA but rather lethal mixtures. MDMA is > still no Aspirin, but it has been around as a drug since 1912, and came back > to light, as a means of therapy, whene LSD was stigmatised. The continued > mystification, condemnation and categorisation as 'simply bad' can only > increase the interest, really. Banging on the dogma drum is a call for > intoxication, not only in rebellion, but simply to get away from the sound > of rule. > > Martin's words make me want to investigte the phenomenon. Ermiminia's make > me want to take a drug, simply in opposition. The Church and the > Marxist-Leninist are some of the most busy indoctrinators i have heard of in > my short life; and they represent, to me as a child of the 70s & 80s, the > same authoritarian conservative and damaging oppressive and suppressive > regimes as do the drug barons. Together with the real conservatives, the > mutated liberals, now capitalists, these factions rule the world with their > better-knowing and superior attitudes that are manifest in such hypocritical > outrages against humanity as Ariel Sharon and the Northern Alliance's CIA > joint-venture 'Heroin Inc.'. !Long Live Power and the Glory! > > jmp > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:31 AM > Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug.... > > > > Erminia backchanneled me to insist that taking E can in medical fact lead > to > > sudden death & that my words might seem to be a recommendation.(I took > that > > risk a few times back in the early 90s when medical information was > > sparser). She's right & I advise any impressionable souls on the list to > > take no drugs at all, especially not such dangerous ones as E. But I'm > > confident that most will do what they want to whatever I or she or whoever > > says. She also regrets recommending 2 aspirin per day against heart > trouble, > > which can lead to fatal bleeding; a mini or half aspirin a day is > > recommended (unless you have a tendency to stomach ulcers, I would add. > Try > > Aspirin Protect, which was developed for such a case.) > > Enjoy the crossing into 02 anyway, all the best > > Martin > > > > > >