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EPILOGUE
So, why did you write this again?
Look, I'm angry. GHB, used recreationally, is a safe, nontoxic, and
by most accounts more pleasant alternative to alcohol, with all its brain
damage, organ toxicity, tolerance and dependence, persistence in the body, and debilitating hangovers. Yet my government has made the poison friendly and
acceptable, and the relaxing, useful substance a dire threat! Drug users -
even those who can cut through the mountains of propaganda - are forced to choose between toxicity and felony. I find it completely unacceptable to
live in a society where alcohol is the accepted "drug of convenience" and is consumed thoughtlessly, by default - which it is. Not without assuming the most paternalizing infantilization or the worst incompetence can I comprehend laws that tell responsible, nonabusive adults that they can safely consume two or three socially approved drugs but that they cannot be trusted with others. I want to destroy the lies and manipulations, and the institutional abuse of power, that make this deplorable situation possible.
And because you, dear reader, deserve some big fun*.
-Michael Cohn, 28 April 1998
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