David:
>Original ritual *sauma was clearly ephedra, with or without
>additional varying ingredients added.
Unfortunately then, such ritual has been recently undermined by
Canadian drug laws and by the especially puritanical views of
drug use (sometimes mistakenly treated as synonymous with
"drug ABuse") in North America as a whole <:(
Perhaps a plea to appeal the laws can be made on religious
grounds. It seems like a more interesting ritual than sitting
in a church before a sermon >:)
At any rate, I guess the strength-giving qualities of soma could
be explained as the product of a stimulant, couldn't they.
= gLeN
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