At 10:21 PM -0700 7/9/97, Steve Schear wrote:
I know this is off-topic for the list...
But why hasn't some cleaver graduate student engineered a common mold or yeast to yield easily extracted (or directly ingestible) common recreational pharmaceuticals? Ideally it would be a perpetual source, like sour dough starter, and easily cultured. Once distributed to the street it would be impossible to stop or track (since no controlled chemicals would be required for production).
You know, if Jim Bell was still contributing to the list, the chemist in him would surely produce some posts on this. Then, when the narcs and BATFags searched his house and found the inevitable mold on the bread, the curdled milk, etc. (Jim is a bachelor, and a computer person, so the mold, etc. is inevitable) they could add this to the indictment. And "The Oregonian" could breathlessly headline: "Drug-Producing Molds Found in Home of Terror-Chemist." --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."