I had no idea Carl Sagan was a huge pothead. Learn something everyday. This mans awesomeness knew no bounds. Unfortunately the new Cosmos Series doesnt live up to the original but it was awesome to see it revived. ------- The poet of the cosmos was a dedicated marijunaphile. In 1971, he wrote an essay under the pseudonym Mr. X, in which he explained why he loved cannabis and extolled the ways it stimulated his curiosity and thinking: “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. It was a point obvious in a way, but rarely talked about. I drew the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down. One idea led to another, and at the end of about an hour of extremely hard work I found I had written eleven short essays on a wide range of social, political, philosophical, and human biological topics. Because of problems of space, I can’t go into the details of these essays, but from all external signs, such as public reactions and expert commentary, they seem to contain valid insights. I have used them in university commencement addresses, public lectures, and in my books.”
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:20:11 +0000
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