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Is that really necessary?

Frankly I don't know why anyone would call themselves "chunk", but hey, it was an honest mistake.

Happy Birthday.

Agreed. Unless you HAVE to drive in, don't bother.

I'm a storehouse of useless information. Just call me the Cliff Claven of the board.

This game RAWKS. :gang: :biggun: Check www.gamefaqs.com. They have a couple of strategyguides that can be helpful. I've found that barge mission impossible to do with the sniper rifle. I used the bazooka after positioning myself where msoprano13 pointed out. I had to use a weapon code to pass it, but hey I wasn't gonna let myself get stuck there 4 ever.

I think you just did.

SF

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Ahh yes, cashmere, the finer things in life. Cashmere and wool are actually the same thing. Cashmere is really a type of wool. Cashmere hairs are supposed to be much much much finer than ordinary wool. Plus real Cashmere comes from goats raised in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan (hence the name cashmere), and I think from goats even in Tibet, but don't quote me on that. Because these goats live in brutally cold conditions, it is said that Cashmere hairs provide much better insulation than regular wool. So these two factors i.e., (1) better insulation, and (2) the fact that you have to get the Cashmere from goats in South Asia, accounts for the higher price tag.

blahhhhh

Merry X-mas. :D :D

So long as the spores are used "for entheogenic research purposes only," i.e., mushroom research, yeah. . .

Whoops.

It's not just you: The Agony of Ecstasy: Memory Loss Growing Forgetfulness Seen Even in Occasional Users By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Medical News Reviewed by Dr. Tonja Wynn Hampton April 9, 2001 -- It's not just loss of sleep from weekends spent at all-night rave parties: Long-term ecstasy users lose important parts of their memory. As have previous studies, a report in the medical journal Neurology finds that people who use the drug known as ecstasy, X, or E have trouble remembering things. The new study, however, shows that people who take the drug only two or three times a month experience memory loss. And that loss continues to worsen over time. "We certainly know that for those who are chronic users, their memories are indeed impaired over time," lead author Konstantine Zakzanis, PhD, tells WebMD. "The question that remains is, "Is this change permanent or reversible?" Ecstasy is a MDMA, short for methlyenendioxymethamphetamine, a member of the amphetamine family of drugs known to damage important brain cells in animal studies. The drug has been around for a long time, but achieved popularity only in the 1980s with the advent of the all-night dance parties known as raves. "It was originally used as a diet suppressant in the first world war," says Zakzanis, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. "In the 1940s and 1950s, it was used in marital counseling to help couples deal with their emotions. In the mid-'80s, it found its way into the rave culture. Most people feel euphoric, happy -- a lot of people get energetic, too, but that may be because the ecstasy people buy on the street is often mixed in with other substances, such as caffeine or Tylenol or amphetamine." Unlike previous studies that tested ecstasy users only one time, Zakzanis enrolled 15 users in a yearlong study. The participants, aged 17-31, used the drug an average of 2.4 times each month. All study subjects agreed to stop taking the drug for two weeks at the beginning and at the end of the year -- a drug vacation confirmed by blood tests -- so that measurements of mental function would not be confused by lack of sleep or a lingering "high." Memory tests showed that the ecstasy users' memories declined over the course of the year. Certain types of memory were affected -- particularly the ability to recall the contents of a news story that was read to them. On this test, they did only half as well as they had done a year before. The ecstasy users' vocabulary skills also declined, as did their abilities to remember people's names and to remember how to get from one place to another. "The subjects were listening to a news story and they found it difficult to remember the story after a delay," Zakzanis says. "They reported driving and forgetting where they were going, but didn't forget how to drive a car. And they had difficulty remembering names when introduced to someone." Zakzanis says heavy ecstasy users also lost the ability to remember to do something in the future. "The more chronic users were impaired more greatly than sporadic users -- so the more you use this drug, the more function you lose," he says. Una D. McCann, MD, led several studies of ecstasy's effects while a section chief at the National Institute of Mental Health. Now an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she continues this research and is familiar with Zakzanis's work. "We and actually a handful of other groups have found that [ecstasy] users don't perform as well on a variety of tests for [mental] functions -- but the one problem that comes up most is memory," McCann tells WebMD. "It seems that the more complicated a memory task is, the more of a deficit we see." The Zakzanis study is the first to follow patients over time, McCann says. "It takes away a lot of the criticisms of other studies, because people say maybe the subjects had worse memory to begin with. But the finding that the users got worse over the course of a year counteracts that complaint -- that's the beauty of this study." Zakzanis says that the ecstasy users in his study are still coming in for tests. Some of them have quit using the drug -- but only time will tell whether the damage to their brains can be undone.

By the way, the article doesn't discuss alcohol, just marijuana.

I've actually studied this topic and one of the articles I read explains pretty well the history of marijuana legislation dating back to as early as the early 1900's. The article can be found here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlr2.htm It's rather dry and technical at times, but if you want to know a detailed answer to the question you asked, this is it. I also took a class in college "The Psychology of Drugs and Behavior," and the professor presented almost the exact reasons as those presented in the article. Here's the conclusion of the article if you just want the nuts and bolts of it: The early laws against the cannabis drugs were passed with little public attention. Concern about marijuana was related primarily to the fear that marijuana use would spread, even among whites, as a substitute for the opiates and alcohol made more difficult to obtain by federal legislation. Especially in the western states, this concern was identifiable with the growth of the Mexican-American minority. It is clear that no state undertook any empirical or scientific study of the effects of the drug. Instead they relied on lurid and often unfounded accounts of marijuana's dangers as presented in what little newspaper coverage the drug received. It was simply assumed that cannabis was addictive and would have engendered the same evil effects as opium and cocaine. Apparently, legislators in these states found it easy and uncontroversial to prohibit use of a drug they had never seen or used and which was associated with ethnic minorities and the lower class.

:laugh: No offense Magilicuti, but you come off as extremely cocky. I don't think you even realize it. Smell the roses.

Ditto. Music was bangin. It was a great night.

I prefer a slightly older crowd i.e., 22-23 and up. Though not always true, maturity level is commensurate with age. As long as the young ones act mature, I don't have a problem with an 18 and over crowd--it's all good.

I think they close at 6:00pm. I've never stayed late enough to find out though.

And just a tip, the biggest mistake people make with these things is stuffing them down their ear canals, which ironically could damage your ear drum and leave you with a nasty earache. Wear them so they feel comfortable.

:laugh: I hope that's a joke and those guys are NOT serious. :laugh: