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- From: bagg@ellis.uchicago.edu (matthew john baggott)
- Subject: Re: "ex" smokers of MJ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.230508.27174@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov18.011939.22620@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov18.060032.28622@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <jah.722296312@mits>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:05:08 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <jah.722296312@mits> jah@mits.mdata.fi (Jani A. Heinonen) writes:
-
- > I didn't claim that nobody has ever had hallucinatory or psychedelic
- >experiences with cannabis. I was asking whether anything can be gained
- >by using it. As for the bit about people beginning to write deep
- >philosophical essays abput pot once it's legalized, I'd like to point
- >out that nothing prevents them from doing so now. However, none of the
- >profound psychedelic writers of the 20th century have, to my knowledge,
- >devoted a single chapter to cannabis.
-
- Isn't Lester Grinspoon compiling a book of successful/creative
- peoples' accounts of how useful marijuana has been to them? I
- recall reading so a year or two ago.
-
- It seems to me that the number of "profound psychedelic writers"
- is so small that we can infer very little from their inclusions
- and omissions.
-
- I also suspect that marijuana is less mentioned because it "calls
- less attention to itself." Unlike psychedelics, it can be reliably
- integrated into many other activities. Therefore, I would think
- that people who want explore the nature of reality or their minds
- and souls would take hallucinogens (and might write about it),
- while people who want a new perspective/angle on activities like
- playing music, writing, or doing philosophy might use mj. Until
- this second group of people explicitly becomes more open about
- their drug use and serious studies are done, it'll be hard to say
- how useful the psychological effects of marijuana are. We don't
- really know which great works of art and science were conceived
- under the influence of mj.
-
-
- >--
- >Jani Heinonen jah@mits.mdata.fi Finger for PGP key
- > Religion is the DMT of the masses.
-
- --Matt
-
-