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> CARL SAGAN: POTHEAD
Not really relevant, but Sagan *was* a so-called "pothead", much to
my delight! A big "Fuck You" to the War On Some Drugs.
TC
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>>Biographer: Sagan Smoked Marijuana
>>
>>By Scott Andrews Associated Press Writer
>>Saturday, August 21, 1999; 7:04 p.m. EDT
>>
>>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The late astronomer
>>and author Carl Sagan was a secret but avid
>>marijuana smoker, crediting it with inspiring
>>essays and scientific insight, according to
>>Sagan's biographer.
>>
>>Using the pseudonym ``Mr. X'', Sagan wrote
>>about his pot smoking in an essay published
>>in the 1971 book ``Reconsidering Marijuana.''
>>The book's editor, Lester Grinspoon, recently
>>disclosed the secret to Sagan's biographer,
>>Keay Davidson.
>>
>>Davidson, a writer for the San Francisco
>>Examiner, revealed the marijuana use in an
>>article published in the newspaper's magazine
>>Sunday. ``Carl Sagan: A Life'' is due out in
>>October.
>>
>>``I find that today a single joint is enough
>>to get me high ... in one movie theater recently
>>I found I could get high just by inhaling the
>>cannabis smoke which permeated the theater,''
>>wrote Sagan, who authored popular science books
>>such as ``Cosmos,'' ``Contact,'' and ``The
>>Dragons of Eden.''
>>
>>In the essay, Sagan said marijuana inspired
>>some of his intellectual work.
>>
>>``I can remember one occasion, taking a shower
>>with my wife while high, in which I had an
>>idea on the origins and invalidities of racism
>>in terms of gaussian distribution curves,''
>>wrote the former Cornell University professor.
>>``I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall,
>>and went to write the idea down.
>>
>>Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience
>>of food, particularly potatoes, music and sex.
>>
>>Grinspoon, Sagan's closest friend for 30 years,
>>said Sagan's marijuana use is evidence against
>>the notion that marijuana makes people less
>>ambitious.
>>
>>``He was certainly highly motivated to work,
>>to contribute,'' said Grinspoon, a psychiatry
>>professor at Harvard University.
>>
>>Grinspoon is an advocate of decriminalizing marijuana.
>>
>>Ann Druyan, Sagan's former wife, is a director
>>of the National Organization for the Reform of
>>Marijuana Laws. The nonprofit group promotes
>>legalization of marijuana.
>>
>>Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996. He was 62.