From:	Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:	Re: Family matters
Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:12:17 +1200

>It may well turn out that it is the damage is
>relatively benign, but, in my opinion, there is no such thing as benign
>damage to the brain.

Good point.

>In it's pure form yes, I agree. However, it is extremely rare to find
>people smoking "grass" without a medium such as tobacco to cut it.

That's not my experience at all... I've never met anyone who would cut
their pot with anything. What the hell would the point be?

>As regards your comments about BTL replacing hard drugs in Shadowrun,
>that's another argument altogether but from my own point of view, I
>would disagree most strongly. There is a large percentage of the
>population that simply can't afford the cyber implant, player and chip
>habit that BTLs and Simsense incur.

Simsense and BTLs both can be run through a trode rig, and the price of
them isn't much more than a trid or whatever.

>Harder, more expensive drugs would be the chemically
>created artificial drugs. Specialist drugs created for specific
>effects.

And minimal side effects too, so as not to discourage the customers.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON