lolitas, dope, and robots

[Meg Larson]

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> From: jester <jester at snet.net>
> To: Paul Murphy <paul.murphy at utoronto.ca>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: lolitas, dope, and robots
> Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 1:29 AM
> 
> At 09:38 PM 07/08/1997 -0400, you wrote:>
> 
> I will observe that dope these days
> >is super-potent, especially the hydroponic stuff, and dealers often lace
it
> >-- it's common to get dope laced with PCP, which is a particularly
ruinous
> >combination. Friends in the know commonly talk about 'wheelchair dope',
> >which leads smokers to sit immobile for hours on end, staring at
tablelegs
> >or the floor.
> 
> Sometimes.  You really have to either grow it yourself or get it from
> someone you know and trust.  There's even a version called "WET" that is
> laced with embalming fluid (and it can neither be confirmed or denied
that
> the source was before or after it was in a body)... the effects of
smoking
> it are NASTY and potentially fatal, actually... Then there's one that has
> feline hormones in it... another nasty additive... It boggles the mind
that
> some people can't just smoke their dope and get off on the organic
natural
> high without courting disaster with all the artificial crap... but then
> again, these are usually the same idiots who sniff glue, paint or whipped
cream.

>Oh hell; give me the good old days when all I had to worry about was
whether or not I was smokin' Mexican-paraquat weed . . .
 
Pining away for a simpler time, 
M.