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Cannabis and Schizophrenia (Was: Economic Benefits of Prohibit (Was: Cannabi

Brian Sandle bsandle at southern.co.nz
Wed Jan 27 08:16:51 EST 1999


In talk.politics.drugs Cijadrachon <cijadra at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
: I am not sure if the topic is Maori and suicide or undifferentiated
: schizophrenia.

Hi, you are probably talking way above some minds, I see there are no 
replies to your article. Or may be they are all just accepting it.

Thanks for expressing it. I feel it gives a hint that cannabis is hard 
serious work. It must be a risk to be alone from helpful minds in use of it.
[...]

: (I believe that this might not be what you meant with the question,
: but it is my opinion about the headline.)

Your approach is to dealing with an existing use situation.

Some of the people who read this group like to collect my analogies. Here 
is one.

I grew up with electronics. The early interest in crystal sets and single 
valve stuff made from old hearing aids then single transistor stuff still 
interests me. Sometimes I still try component repair on devices. But more 
and more I like to get on with using them. Sometimes there are single 
transistors on sets. But more and more it is whole motherboards from 
computers - very large numbers of circuits - which get rejected and 
changed rather than one blown transistor in a memory chip. It is not 
possible to get the memory chip apart to repair it anyway.

What you are describing seems a bit like working perhaps with component 
repair rather than getting on with the bigger issues.

Yes I liked playing with old hard drives, using the spaces on them that 
still work. But the big new drives make them look so puny. Now I have one 
that may be a little shock sensitive. So I try to take care with it. I 
wonder how long it will remain without bad sectors. Should I go to a RAID 
system? 

With humans I tend to want to see other levels acting, so I persevere 
longer in working with partially operating ones.

I could string out the analogy - explain more - debate its problem leads 
&c. You may be describing something like reinstalling a program from some 
elses computer. Then you run of the risk of them having a virus.

There are very many sides to all this, really the analogy for what I am
trying to do is to make sure that there are enough copies of the well
tried programs left which have not been on a machine which may have had a
virus. The analogous thing that you are on seems to be makinig use of
machines/programs/data which have had a virus. Have you heard of the
viruses which can destroy the BIOS of some computers? Older computers may
be more immune to them. 

So I suppose as you read this it will be anaolgous to having another 
mixed up computer to deal with.

I just now note that this particular branch of the thread has stayed on 
bionet.neuroscience.

I wonder what the neural networks approach to the spread of of a mind 
changing drug through a culture is?

Dodo Dolphin


 



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