How about our favorite drug?

Post #57,127 by drewk 10/16/02 8:38:14 AM Reply	How about our favorite drug? I don't want to be in coach if you've legally been taking drugs and you're the pilot in command ... How about alcohol? That's a legal drug. Just because it's a legal drug, does that mean it's legal to fly a plane while under the influence? Why, it seems not! Sorry for the sarcasm, but I hate arguments against legalization that treat alcohol differently. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #57,452 by mmoffitt 10/17/02 8:00:09 PM Reply	Here's a tip. Some have "flashbacks" w/only moderate use of acid. I've never heard of a "flashback" from anyone who moderately consumed alcohol. Also, even with the arguably "lightest" illicit drug (marijuana), the active ingredient (THC) remains in lymph tissue for at least 90 days after a single use. Show me the booze that can do that trick. Yes, alcohol is a drug. But it doesn't have the same staying power, nor (assuming moderate use again) the permanent mind altering qualities of some illicit substances. In short, alcohol IS different ;-)
Post #57,494 by drewk 10/18/02 9:00:38 AM Reply	So it's testable, is it still active? Unless I missed something in biology class, lymph tissues don't affect reasoning. So while THC may be testable much longer than alcohol, is it still active? Of course, we can't possibly have a definitve answer to this as it is illegal to conduct clinical trials on THC to see what, exactly, it does === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #57,533 by deSitter 10/18/02 11:54:18 AM Reply	Re: Here's a tip. Flashbacks are a myth. LSD in the usually taken configuration (literally micrograms) does not produce flashbacks - as indeed it could not possibly do because it is metabolized within hours. It does produce permanent changes in perception, or I should say, interpretation of perception - for the better. I assume the myth was the same kind of bogey-man scare as "reefer madness". -drl

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