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Marijuana delinks habits of the mind, yet chronic use of the herb can also be habituating.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
In 1963, the White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse concluded that the hazards of smoking marijuana were “exaggerated” and that harsh criminal penalties (which in Georgia, for example, included the death penalty for selling pot to a minor) were “in poor social perspective.” For a country punch-drunk on antimarijuana hysteria, it was a momentary jolt of sobriety.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
My brain is already a dark, rattling space, empty of any perspective but full of futile anger at inanimate things: maps, stones, mud, rain. I am angry at the incline, and I am angry at remoteness. I am angry that I am here. I am angry that this is my choice.
The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Katherine May
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