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From: [email protected] (William Turnbow)
Subject: Re: Discussions on alt.psychoactives
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Bill Claussen) writes:
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>This group was originally a takeoff from sci.med. The reason for
>the formation of this group was to discuss prescription psychoactive
>drugs....such as ...
>
>Oh well, obviously, no one really cares.
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Then let me ask you for a "workable" solution. We have a name
here that implies certain things to many people. Rather than trying
to educate each and every person that comes to the group -- is there
some "name" that would imply what this group was originally
intended for?
My dad was a lawyer -- as such I grew up with being a stickler
for "meaning". In my "reality", psychoactives *technically* could
range from caffeine to datura to the drugs you mention to more
standard recreational drugs. In practice I had hoped to see it
limited to those that were above some psychoactive level -- like
some of the drugs you mention, but also possibly including *some*
recreational drugs -- but with conversation limited to their psychoactive
effects -- the recent query about "bong water", I thought was a bit
off topic -- so I just hit "k".
But back to the original question -- what is a workable solution --
what is a workable name that would imply the topic you with to
discuss? It sounds like there should be a alt.smartdrugs, or something
similar -- I don't feel psychoactives would generally be used to
describe alot of those drugs. There is a big difference between a
drug that if taken in "certain doses, over a period of days may have
a psychoactive effect in some people", vs. many of the drugs in
PIHKAH which *are* psychoactive.
wm
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