DRUG RELATED NEWSGROUPS NOTE: If you do not have one of these newsgroups on your list, you should send a polite letter to your system administrator asking the newsgroup be added. Please use these newsgroups to cut down on cross-posting and to seperate traffic. Please do not mass cross-post. alt.drugs This is the catch-all newsgroup. This doesn't, however, mean you should cross-post every single article in any of the other alt.drugs.* groups here. If it fits into another newsgroup, you should use the other newsgroup and not cross post. alt.drugs.chemistry This group is for the discussion of the synthesis and extraction of psychoactives. It does not include neuropharmacology questions which should go into alt.psychoactives alt.drugs.culture This group is for trip stories, best music to listen to while stoned, other discussions of set + setting and in general the psychosocial aspects of the use of drugs. alt.drugs.pot Growing tips go here and not in alt.hemp. Stuff about hemp as rope, fuel, food, etc should go into alt.hemp. On Usenet "Pot == you get stoned off of it, Hemp == you don't", apparently. alt.drugs.psychedelics LSD, MDMA, DMT, Mushrooms, etc. Probably Ketamine would be included in here as well. Synthesis/extraction threads would be better placed in alt.drugs.chemistry. alt.hemp For the *alternative* uses of marijuana. We're talking rope, fuel, food, and other uses of help. If it has anything to do with marijuana as a drug it should be in alt.drugs.pot alt.psychoactives This group is for the discussion of nootropics ("Smart Drugs") and for the neuropharmacology of drugs. It should not have threads about psychedelics (unrelated to neuropharmacology) or threads about antidepressants (unrelated to neuropharmacology) on it. And under most circumstances questions which might seem to require some degree of neuropharmacology to answer would probably be best left in other newsgroups -- i.e. "What happens if i mix Prozac and LSD?" should probably go in alt.drugs.psychedelics (and/or sci.med.psychobiology). On the other hand, discussion of neuropharmacology of all drugs are encouraged. If you'd like to know what receptors LSD binds to, or how MDMA causes the release of serotonin this is the place to go... talk.politics.drugs Political discussion should, in theory, wind up here rather than in alt.drugs. sci.med.pharmacy Discussion of legal, medicinal drugs. Questions about antibiotics, etc should go here sci.med.psychobiology Discussion of legal, medicinal, psychoactive drugs. Questions about Prozac, Zoloft, Ativan, Valium, Buspirone, etc should all typically go in here unless it has to do with getting high off the drug or mixing the drug with an illegal psychoactive. OTHER NEWSGROUPS alt.drugs.caffeine: everyone's favorite mild psychostimulant. alt.coffee: everyone's favorite black tarry mess with caffeine in it. alt.smokers: cancer sticks and related flames alt.beer: beer rec.food.drink.beer: beer alt.drunken.bastards: lots of beer rec.crafts.brewing: making beer alt.drugs.usenet: Q: is Usenet worse than crack? A: Yes. alt.consciousness: consciousness both altered and not alt.rave: MDMA + loud music + thousands of people OBSOLETE OR OTHERWISE BOGUS NEWSGROUP Please don't propogate these, and if your admin does propogate these, please send them a note to stop: alt.caffeine: use alt.drugs.caffeine alt.hemp.politics: use talk.politics.drugs alt.help.recreational: use alt.drugs.pot