grgr: natural plants & synthetic drugs

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "the chemists of the nineteenth century were hard working to analyze the opium 
 and to present its alcaloids purely; by this they were behaving like a child, 
 who tears a clock into pieces to find out how it functions. they had success, 
 but their results were, all in all, not healing. morphine has an essentially 
 stronger hypnotic effect than opium, its mode of action is faster and much more 
 vehement. the working of morphine is subdued to very subtle changes by the 
 other 20 strange alcaloids, which exist inside the opium. the effect of alcohol 
 is pretty different, depending on whether one takes richebourg '29 or synthetic 
 gin. an even more astonishing example comes from venezuela, where running 
 carriers chew coca-leaves, make hundreds of miles on one day, and sleep 
 afterwards until they're refreshed again. they have no negative after-effects, 
 and they are also not in the danger of becoming addicted. cocaine is a 
 different story. the adepts of tarot would simply say: 'we live and the plant 
 lives, that's why we can be friends. when you kill the plant first, you are  
 calling for trouble'."  
 (m.o.p.a.r.t. from the german edition of aleister crowley's "the book of       
 thoth" [1944], p. 52f.) 

 but then: would you  r e a l l y  like to change your adam into nutmeg?! you 
 see ... 

                                                 all-chemically: kfl