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Mad_Professor

Wait, how do you know Carl Sagan smoked? He's like my hero.

 

Drunk Monkey

Bob Marley hands down for sure.

THC Fiend

Bill Nye the Science guy.

There is no possible way this guy wasn't high during his shows.

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Vicki

Have you seen Carl Sagan's Cosmos? If not, you have an excellent chance to do it again on The Science Channel right now every Tuesday night at 9PM and repeated twice on Wednesday. It has been digitally remastered and updated. Really cool, and you can buy the 13 part DVD at the Discovery Store.

Anyway, watch that and listen to how Carl Sagan talks in that and then ask yourself the how Carl Sagan could he have not smoked weed.

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Mamabudz

http://www.druglibrary.org/think/~jnr/sagan.htm

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.

 

iamskfan

Hunter S Thompson! George Jung! I would have to agree...and no, not Johnny Depp, just the characters he plays! lol

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Mad_Professor

Mamabudz, thanks for the link & info!

midnighttokergi

i would have to say Robert Randall in 1977 he was the only american recieving legal supplies of marijuana for medical purposes,the result of a petition in 1976.Fedral authorities wanted him to keep silent aboutthis unique arrangement but Randall knew many others could benifit from medical access to marijuana.He began speaking out at every opportunity and there were many.But Randalls outspokeness would put him at risk.The feds threatened to take away Randallls legal access to marijuana so he appealed to the white house for help. to read more go to http://marijuana-as-medicine.org keep tokin all

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thats f*ckin hilarious. must try potatoes when high

i dunno, bob marley? can't think of anyone

Vicki

I knew Carl Sagan smoked and I always loved this man, but now I adore him.