On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote:
> Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > choppers are zooming up and down the canyons as part of "CAMP," the
> > Campaign Against Marijuana Production. Choppers find pot fields,
> > troops are dispatched, shoot-outs occur. All over a plant, an
> > agricultural product which several of the Founders grew on their
> > plantations. And Santa Cruz also has the fascist police state habit
> > of subpoenaing the customer records of hydroponics equipment sellers
> > and then launching raids against those who bought such equipment.
> > Welcome to Amerika.)
>
> The boom of molecular biology may very well throw drug enforcement for
> a loop. For a simple example, assume that a drug-friendly biologist
> isolated the gene for THC, and spliced it into some other kind of
> plant. The result is a fruit or vegitable which has THC in it, which
> will make consumers high, but which is most likely very hard to
> distinguish from the normal version of that fruit. This process could
> be performed for any kind of drug product for which a gene could be
> isolated. In reality, it's a bit more complicated than that, but
> that's the concept.
>
Sorry. They already thought of that. Its called the Drug Analogs
Act (or somesuch). Makes anything that has substantially similar
effects to a schedule 1 drug illegal also. Brilliant. They
just made everyone's brain contraband (maybe what they were trying
to do all along).
Endorphins would thus be classified an analog I think.
jim
