Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 25, 2005, at 17:49:06
In reply to For Larry Hoover or anyone else: All-Natural!, posted by bubblegumchewer on December 20, 2002, at 13:01:32
A substance which affects processes in human tissue is a drug. Many of today's pharmaceutical drugs are simple alterations (benztropine from the natural atropine) or taken directly from (galantamine, lithium (the greeks used this), pilocarpine (for salivation, from the herb Iporuru), morphine (from the poppy), etc etc etc) "herbal" or "natural" drugs.
The whole "artifical"/"natural" thing is a false dichotomy, for we humans are part of nature; our drugs are no more unnatural than "herbal" drugs, just like ant hills are no more unnatural than skyscrapers. Far from being discrete, we are part of mother nature coming to understand herself.
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