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  • For Lester Grinspoon. Your Light is Here to Stay

    My dear friend Lester Grinspoon peacefully passed away in the presence of his wife Betsy on June 25th, one day after his 92nd birthday.   I was about to call him on…

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  • Henri Michaux and The Flying Carpet: Cannabis Explorations of an Unique Mind

    „Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.“ Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) He was admired by many of his contemporaries both for his poetry and writing as well…

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  • Marijuana, Escapism, and Mind Traveling

    „Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.“ Thomas Wolfe We all need to escape from our daily routines once…

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  • Marijuana, Empathy, and Severe Cases of Autism

    “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” John Steinbeck, writer, 1902-1968   “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for…

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  • Quote: A Marijuana High Can Enhance Core Human Mental Abilities

    “A cannabis high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others,…

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  • Just Another Altered State of Consciousness

    “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)   Altered States of Consciousness and Western Culture There is the marijuana…

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  • What a High Can Do For Sex

    “If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble…

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  • “War on Drugs” – Quote

    “There has never been a ‘war on drugs’! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol…

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  • Legalization Quote

    “The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.” Sebastian Marincolo

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  • Insight Quote

    “The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar…

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