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From: [email protected] (Marc Anderson)
Subject: Re: Discussions on alt.psychoactives
In article <[email protected]> "Charles D. Nichols" writes:
>>From: [email protected] (Hanan Herzog)
>>Subject: Discussions on alt.psychoactives
>>Date: 20 Apr 1993 19:16:25 GMT
>>
>>Could the people discussing recreational drugs such as mj, lsd, mdma, etc.,
>>take their discussions to alt.drugs? Their discussions will receive greatest
>>contribution and readership there. The people interested in strictly
>>"smart drugs" (i.e. Nootropics) should post to this group. The two groups
>>(alt.drugs & alt.psychoactives) have been used interchangably lately.
>>I do think that alt.psychoactives is a deceiving name. alt.psychoactives
>>is supposedly the "smart drug" newsgroup according to newsgroup lists on
>>the Usenet. Should we establish an alt.nootropics or alt.sdn (smart drugs &
>>nutrients)? I have noticed some posts in sci.med.nutrition regarding
>>"smart nutrients." We may lower that groups burden as well.
>
>I beg to disagree with you on this subject. If I recall correctly,
>alt.drugs was being flodded by posts like "how do I grow MJ" "How do I
>use a bong?" "wow, man, I just had the coolest trip" etc... There were
>quite a few people out there who were versed in pharmacology and biology
>who wanted to discuss centrally active substabces at a higher level
>without all the other crap filling the bandwidth. I would suggest
>that you proceed to create a newsgroup dedicated to Nootropics if you
>must have one dedicated to them, and leave alt.psychoactives to the
>discussion of psychoactives (including nootropics, which are but a small
>portion of the realm of centrally active substances).
I was wondering if a group called 'sci.pharmacology' would be relevent.
This would be used for a more formal discussion about pharmacological
issues (pharmacodynamics, neuropharmacology, etc.)
Just an informal proposal (I don't know anything about the net.politics
for adding a newsgroup, etc.)
[more alt.psychoactives stuff deleted]
-marc
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