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 Mayamoi rated 28 months ago - Surprising list of noted pot users.
From the page: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: "The basketball great has said he uses marijuana to alleviate the migraine headaches that have bothered him for years. ``I use it to control the nausea which comes with the headaches,'' he said during a book s...
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- raindrop rated 18 months ago
- even the great Carl Sagan smoked pot and was inspired by it.
- MissPop rated 18 months ago
- very important potheads....even carl sagin....proof that the myths about weed are complete bollocks.
- thefuzzymode rated 20 months ago
- Wowwww'sahhhhh!....>This list is expansive yo!
Low and behold.....According to this even Feynman was even "on dope?"
(Welllllll I'll be goddddddd damneeeed.)
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- seidojohn rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "Using the pseudonym "Mr. X'', Sagan wrote about his pot smoking in an essay published in the 1971 book "Reconsidering Marijuana.'"
- Trippy-Hippie rated 28 months ago
- Breaking down the Myths surrounding marijuana
- AKGrocksdude rated 19 months ago
- George Washington: the colonist hippy
- Cylons rated 19 months ago
- Bob Marley was a pothead? I'm going to have to re-evaluate my whole worldview!
- Marywhalen rated 21 months ago
- From the page: "LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Author
In 1869, this author of Little Women published "Perilous Play," a short story wherein a group of young socialites enjoys hashish bon-bons. That same year, the periodical Scientific American wrote, "the Cannabis indica of the US Pharmacopoeia, the resinous product of hemp, grown in the East Indies and other parts of Asia, is used in those countries to a large extent for its intoxicating properties, and is doubtless used in this country for the same purpose."
Starting in the 1860s, the Ganja Wallah Hasheesh Candy Company made and marketed maple sugar hashish candy. In Philadelphia, during the American Centennial Exposition of 1876, at least one pharmacist sold hashish.
SOURCE: Palmer and Horowitz, eds., Sisters of the Extreme, 2000 Ernest Abel, Marijuana, The First 12,000 Years
MYTH: Pot Smokers Don't Accomplish Much"
A VERY INTERESTING SITE
- iggypoprocks rated 21 months ago
- A surprising list of some influential people who have enjoyed the kind herb.
- Mayamoi rated 28 months ago
- Surprising list of noted pot users.
From the page: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: "The basketball great has said he uses marijuana to alleviate the migraine headaches that have bothered him for years. ``I use it to control the nausea which comes with the headaches,'' he said during a book signing last year and upon the time of his arrest for carrying a small amount of the drug through Toronto. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, author of Little Women.
BILL BRADLEY Athlete/Politician: During his run for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, he admitted to smoking pot on a pundit show, prompting Sam Donaldson to out himself also. . . While running against Bradley for the presidential nomination, admitted pot smoker Al Gore supported medical marijuana; while running against Bush he backed off.
BING CROSBY,Singer and actor: Louis [Armstrong]'s influence on Bing extended to his love of marijuana, which he alternately called mezz (after Mezz Mezzrow), gage, pot, or muggles. Bing didn't develop the lifelong appetite for it that Louis did, but he enjoyed it in the early days--it was legal--and, like Louis, surprised interviewers in the 1960s and 1970s by suggesting it be decriminalized.
RICHARD FEYNMAN,Physicist; Jack London, Margaret Mead. . .
CARL SAGAN
Scientist, author of "Cosmos,'' "Contact,'' and "The Dragons of Eden.''
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 on August 20, 1999.
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. 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. Ann Druyan, Sagan's former wife, is a director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
NEWT GINGRICH
Politician
Congressman Newt Gingrich co-introduced legislation to allow marijuana's use as a medicine at the Federal level on September 16, 1981. On March 19, 1982 he wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "We believe licensed physicians are competent to employ marijuana, and patients have a right to obtain marijuana legally, under medical supervision, from a regulated source. ...Federal policies do not reflect a factual or balanced assessment of marijuana's use as a medicant."
Gingrich admitted that he smoked marijuana when he was in college. He stated in 1995 article from The Economist, "That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era." One year later he attacked Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry for making the same admission, and charged without substantiation that one quarter of the White House staff used drugs. "See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality," Gingrich said. "That's why you get to go to jail and I don't. Any questions?" Yeah, how can you be such a hypocrite?
And there are several other surprises on the list as well. Hey even bush used pot as well as cocain and was arrested no less than 2 times for driving under the influence of Alcohol and once for being disorderly under the influence, something like that hard to keep up with him. But it didn't stop him from becoming the decider.
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