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Why thank you, Donal. Very

wws — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:02:52 +0000

In reply to I really crave your comments,

Why thank you, Donal. Very sweet of you to say that, when most of my recent comments (to whomever) have tended to be tart.

I really crave your comments,

Donal — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:42:22 +0000

In reply to Where is SUGAR on this list

I really crave your comments, wws.

Duz there be an acronym

we are stardust — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:28:24 +0000

In reply to You can still take offense?

Duz there be an acronym stronger than ROTFLMAO??? If there is one, then I would gladly use it! My iguana and I...salute you.

You can still take offense?

moat — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:13:51 +0000

In reply to Pardon me, Moat, but I

You can still take offense? Clearly, you need just a little more....

By the way, is that your iguana on the monitor? He is kind of freaking me out.

I stand rightly accused,

we are stardust — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:41:05 +0000

In reply to See? You're skipping over

I stand rightly accused, Quinnus Profundus and Correctus; but only for this sole reason: I AM STILL A SMOKER. SO SUE ME. Plus, I have partaken liberally (so to speak) of the sacrament, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Which, by the way, back when dinosaurs, yada yada...was not so much a recreational drug, but an experiment in seeing with other parts of one's brain and other dentritic pings, and the whole of one's planetary existence. Now: please; have your fun with me.

p.s. the local shrinks and medicaid folks give me prescriptions for cigarettes; they have twigged to the fact finally that tobacco keeps me from murdering people. Many people...though they are all assholes, my imagined targets.

Where is SUGAR on this list

wws — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:29:25 +0000

In reply to Booze worse than Crack?

Where is SUGAR on this list ???? Major oversight, I think.

What happens when one gives up alcohol? Sweets craving.

What happens when one gives up smoking? Sweets craving.

I can't speak about recovery from heroin, crack et al but I'm betting whatever anyone gives up results in SWEETS CRAVING.

There's humor here, I think. I'm picturing the average neighborhood cafe/bistro with discreet signs that say: "Thank you for not sugaring" and/or "Be considerate: Secondary Sugaring is harmful to the health of others."

I heard radio Doc Dean Edell

Donal — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:25:13 +0000

In reply to Booze worse than Crack?

I heard radio Doc Dean Edell opine about which recreational drugs were the safest. Heroin, he said, was least harmful to your body, assuming A - you get it uncut, and B - you can always get as much as your body demands. So Edell and Nutt agree on that, although I'm sure both would agree that taking heroin is a very bad move.

To get a real comparative number, you'd have to make all the drugs as legal as alcohol, and see how the use and abuse shakes out after a few years. We have a lot of pitiful drunks right now, but we also have a lot of pitiful gambling addicts. How many addicts to some or all of the others would we have if they were more available? Alcohol takes a long time to kill you, unless you drive drunk, but cocaine can kill you at any time, as Len Bias found out. Meth seems to grind you down in a year or so.

See? You're skipping over

quinn esq — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:14:19 +0000

In reply to You might want to choose your

See? You're skipping over those anti-TOBACCO-smoking freaks! Man, they're thick on the ground in Massachusetts and California.

Had a good laugh a few years back when myself and an Old Lefty buddy got tossed for smoking in a restaurant. (A restaurant full of rip-roaring drunks.) Thrown outside, the immediately adjacent parking lot was open to smokers, but obviously,not drinkers. which meant the restaurant was allowed to pour booze down your throat, and provide parking to you, then set you on the public road home. But NO SMOKING!

In between, we found a strip about 3 feet wide, which ran between restaurant and parking lot, where it was unclear who exactly held jurisdiction. THIS, we decided, was the sweet spot of freedom, where you could both smoke AND drink. Which we did. Even falling down was apparently legal.

Ohhhhh Sweet Spot of Freedom!!!!

You might want to choose your

we are stardust — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:48:13 +0000

In reply to I love this issue. The booze

You might want to choose your Lefty friends more carefully then; ask for some proof of Leftiness ID. My friends have always claimed that pot is not dangerous to oneself or others, but alcohol IS, regardless of the carcinogenic factors, which I had known about. It is toxic to livers, so even the health/vascular/free radical neutralizing/digestive aid properties need to seen in terms of only moderate consumption. It's anodyne properties are a whole nother kettle of fish for people who can't get pain meds from docs, though. Sadly.

Pardon me, Moat, but I

we are stardust — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:43:57 +0000

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Pardon me, Moat, but I resemble that remark. And take supreme offense at it. ;o)