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would argue that the mountain of choices we have available to us now compared to 100 years ago would account for some the gains in abstract reasoning measurements. 100 year ago: Rabbit A or Rabbit B didn't matter much. The store only had a few brands of any particular product, if they were even branded at all.

You've been watching too many westerns. First, 100 years ago was 1912. Look at one product, beer. There were almost all the brands of American beer there are today, except Busch and "lite" beers which were more modern (I'm two years older than Busch). A-B had both Budweiser and Michelob, there was Miller, there was Coors. Look at the choice of beers they had in Europe -- the same brands you have today.

Toothpaste? You had Ponds, Three Star, Darkie, Life Savers. Back then you not only had toothpaste, but tooth powder as well.

We have to choose what we think will suit us best, weight one choice against another hundreds of times per day.

You buy hundreds of things every day???

We have to weigh the inputs - advertising, peer pressure, style, function, preferences.

You think those things didn't exist in 1912? And not only that, there were products that you no longer have a choice of.

I am sorry I cannot find the quote and as I think I said (error on page cannot expand previous comment so going by memory) it might have been sixty minutes. Anyway, here's some food for thought. I hope you read them they are of interest. The surprising truth about heroin and addiction., Heroin is harmless, and if you only read one of these links please read the last, Chapter 5. Some eminent narcotics addicts

I think you have wrong three letter agency.

    Google for some of the following, and you'll find the answers.

    Cocaine One

    Cocaine flight crashes in Yucatan (2007)

    Cocaine flight (1990)

    Herion, Opium, etc (1960's on)

    And more (1950's on)

    If you're going to run black ops mission with operations off the books, that budget has to come from somewhere. It's not to say that it's all bad, they get lots of things done, that wouldn't generally be approved of by the public, but are necessary evils.

I know a couple of people who smoked tobacco and never got cancer but they say you will.

Coke is expensive which limits a lot of people using it. That is a reason why Crack Cocaine held such high penalties. It cheaper because it actually cuts the coke while increasing the potency due to amonia and other things being in it. I have no idea what the price of coke is now but I used to be able to get an 8 ball (1/8 once or 3.5 grams) for around $120 or so. That was several years ago. Me and two others could take two of those a night. You build up a tolerance with coke really quick and need to increase the amount to do in order to get the same high. I think they call it chasing the buzz or something. If left unchecked, you can easily do enough to make your heart explode (that was a common fear). You really need someone watching you if your the type of person who eats the entire bag of potato chips in one sitting because they are good and you didn't realize how much you had.

I guess other drugs like heroine and meth have the same effect with getting a tolerance. We used to mix meth in with the coke and call it crank. It would stretch the 10-20 minute coke buzz out to around an hour but you ended up being awake for three days. Coke is perhaps the only drug I have taken that I actually like which means I have to purposely limit myself on it. I went through an 8 or 9 month span were I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000 chasing it and stopped only after someone almost died from a massive coronary in front of us (because of the usage) Another guy got hepatitis C that was traces to the coke he was taking.

About 4 or 5 years ago, a guy I went to school with got an infection from some bacteria that grew in the Coke and infected a needle he used when freebasing. It attached to his heart and he now has a pig valve and the docs told him he could die at any time. Another guy who was into heroine actually died something like 5 months after he quit. He stole IVs of saline from the hospital and was giving himself injections to clam the withdraw pains and get a slight vein rush (after associating a high with injections, you start automatically getting a rush or a high after injecting anything until you get sick again).

Anyways, I'm not the government telling drugs are bad. I'm just some random guy on the internet who has some experience with it. You seem to not have experience and you need to know that they can take you down a dark ride on a path that you might not be able to get off from. Recreational usage means every now and then, not every other day or every day. Make sure if your doing it, that you know someone who has done it to and not turned into a complete waist of good air in the process. Depending on how clean your source is and a number of other things, you can have fun or get hooked or completely lose it. BTW, coke will raise your blood pressure and make your heart race so think twice is your prone to stroke or anything like that. If you really want more information about it, look for a medical site talking about it. Sometimes you can find an advocacy site like this one.

What exactly is the U.S. RDA for expelling coca-cola through your nasal passages?

I don't know about Coke out, but a dose of coke in is about 50 mg.

"LSD was pretty much an accident and it happened on Friday, April 16th 1943, in Basle, Switzerland."

http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/articles/lsd_acci dent.htm

...I'm in the mood to shoot someone except it would be too loud...

Here ya go. I've always loved these guys.
As for the toothache...well, there's always this.

In the US, we find that the CIA actively explored the use of LSD for the purpose of mind control. Ken Kesey got hooked during government experiments.

LSD is not addictive. Get your facts straight.

Daniel

And to think, LSD made this all possible

"Would I have invented PCR if I hadn't taken LSD? I seriously doubt it,"

-- Dr Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winning inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reaction that allows pretty much all the modern research in DNA technology.

And to think on the same Google search that I found that, there was a sponsered link to "How drugs support terrorism" from the government.