In <3539cee8.4784595 at news.twics.com> patanie at hotmail.com (Patanîe
Pongpâ) writes:
>>Dear (...),
>>Reading the recent book of Dr Ward Dean on
>gamma-hydroxybutyrate(Gamma-OH or G.H.B) I cannot but only think to
>Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler who wrote this terrible statement:
>>"The highest form of capitalism is organised crime".
>>Why? Because the way the FDA has behaved concerning a molecule
>discovered more than 36 years ago,in Europe,and,all of a
>sudden,demonised in the USA,through the active participation of the
>very FDA,can only be labelled as criminal.
>The war on Gamma-OH reveals deeper truths and so much that Gamma-OH
>becomes,nearly,a side question.
>It is a whole system which is corrupt,extraordinarily corrupt.
>And the danger about that is that your country is exporting this evil
>system of organised lies to Europe and the world!
>Are we already in the books of George Orwell?
>What do you think???
>>I am shocked,immensely shocked.
>>Best thoughts,
COMMENT:
Don't get too bent out of shape here. Remember, this is a drug
which is probably too dangerous for the average person to use without
hurting himself at least once with it. Like alcohol, it wipes out your
higher judgement centers, and then you do really STUPID things for some
time before you conk out. I have tried to eat frozen food directly
out of the ice box, without opening packages. The next morning (memory
is pretty well kept) I found ice cream boxes in the sink with tooth
marks in them (in the cardboard). Other people I know tell similar
completely disinhibited stories. You can take the stuff in bed, but
when it hits and you get the carbo muchies from it, you're too stupid
to realize you need to stay down for your own protection, because your
IQ is now about 70. Perhaps 50.
It's probably a drug you should take in low doses (less than 2
grams) or else have a keeper or handler to make sure you don't hurt
yourself at higher doses.
I'm a libertarian-- I think drugs should be legal. But we don't
live in a country where we allow adults to take risks of this sort,
except with alcohol, and that's only by long LONG tradition. I'm sure
the society isn't ready for GHB, pharmacologically safer than alcohol
though it may be (and certainly is). I'm REALLY sorry to have to make
that conclusion, because it's such an intensely interesting drug.
Steve Harris, M.D.
