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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Ceremonial Chemicals</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="religion.html" title="Religion"/><link rel="next" href="communication_style.html" title="Communication Style"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Ceremonial Chemicals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religion.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="communication_style.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="chemicals"/>Ceremonial Chemicals</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Most hackers don't smoke tobacco, and use alcohol in moderation if at
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all. However, there has been something of a trend towards exotic beers since
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about 1995, especially among younger Linux hackers apparently influenced by
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Linus Torvalds's fondness for Guinness.</p><p>Limited use of non-addictive psychedelic drugs, such as cannabis, LSD,
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psilocybin, nitrous oxide, etc., used to be relatively common and is still
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regarded with more tolerance than in the mainstream culture. Use of
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‘downers’ and opiates, on the other hand, appears to be
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particularly rare; hackers seem in general to dislike drugs that make them
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stupid. But <a href="O/on-the-gripping-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">on the gripping hand</i></a>, many hackers
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regularly wire up on caffeine and/or sugar for all-night hacking runs.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religion.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="communication_style.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Religion </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Communication Style</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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