Re: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…

[Joe Allonby]

Several points:

1) I spent several years smoking pot more or less continuously,
starting in the morning. I funtioned at a pretty high level that would
have been impossible to do with a legal intoxicant such as alcohol,
but then again I wasn't operating heavy equipment.When smoking on a
daily basis, one does build a tolerance.

2) Street drug users and sellers are often surprisingly
unsophiscticated when it comes to the chemical nature of what they're
dealing with. PCP in pill form was often sold in the seventies as THC.
Low dose LSD (microdot) was often sold as mescaline. 50-75 micrograms
of actual mescaline wouldn't do jackshit to you but try explaining
that to a stoner fifteen year-old. "I wouldn't do acid, this is
mescaline!" It's acid dipshit.

3) Pot got a lot stronger. When growing shifted from Mexico to
Colombia, potency jumped. When it shifted to Hawaii, California,
Vermont, and British Columbia, it went off the previous scale. The
Acapulco Gold of 1970 would seem like commercial crap to someone
smoking Vermont hydro.



On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Two more very minor thoughts on this:
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> 1. Again without claiming careful study, just going by what I can remember, it increasingly seems to me that, if I were challenged to pinpoint instances of Doc exhibiting symptoms which could only be put down to dope smoking, then I'd find it quite hard. Stuff like memory lapses, paranoia, and not knowing if you've been thinking or talking out loud, could all be ascribed to other drugs or phenomena, and in some cases more likely should be.  Remember Pirate Prentice wondering if he'd whispered something or said it aloud at the start of GR?
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> 2. Comparisons with Marlowe/Chandler are many and will doubtless be explored in depth, something I look forward to. Someone mentioned that, although Marlowe would be as likely to be caught crying over a dame as smoking a joint, he does enjoy a whiskey or three. I think the phrase used was 'five sheets to the wind'. But in actual fact, again going from (older) memory, although Marlowe always seemed to be accessing that 'bottle of pretty good rye', he never seemed to be debilitated by drink, so far as I can recall. (Cue deluge of posts quoting passages of Marlovian drunkenness...)
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> Oh! Oh! Something else: I'd never heard of PCP being marketed as 'synthetic THC'. What a case for teh trades descriptions legislators! A bit like that Japanese synthetic blood in HBO's 'True Blood', 'metallic and vile'.
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> The strongest thing I ever had, I think, was a type of LSD marketed as 'Purple OMs' in about 1989. Now that was enough to bring on visions of Looney Tunes, I can tell you...
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