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Brave New World RevisitedAnother stimulant of more recent vintage is amphetamine, better known under its trade name of Benzedrine. Amphetamine works very effec]tively but works, if abused, at the expense of mental and physical health. It has been reported that, in Ja]pan, there are now about one million amphetamine ad]dicts. Of the classical vision-producers the best known are the peyote of Mexico and the southwestern United States and Cannabis sativa, consumed all over the world under such names as hashish, bhang, kif and marihuana. According to the best medical and anthro]pological evidence, peyote is far less harmful than the White Man's gin or whisky. It permits the Indians who use it in their religious rites to enter paradise, and to feel at one with the beloved community, without making them pay for the privilege by anything worse than the ordeal of having to chew on something with a revolting flavor and of feeling somewhat nauseated for an hour or two. Cannabis sativa is a less innocuous drug though not nearly so harmful as the sen]sation-mongers would have us believe ...» |
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