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| | Marijuana Uses - Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marijuana Uses |
 | | These poems embody aspects of the consciousness of a sixty-something American professor-poet, a character related to me, Sam Abrams, born in Brooklyn in 1935, in much the same problematic way in which the "Walt Whitman" of Leaves of Grass is related to the Walter Whitman, born in Huntington, Long Island in 1819. |
 | | Pot, poetry, getting out into nature, return the Old Pothead, to some extent to radical innocence, to recover the astonishment of the world made new that Thoreau (lucky with yet unspoiled Walden to help) knew about. |
 | | Not that savage indignation is inappropriate nowadays, especially in the context of the use of marijuana, so hedged in by obscenely punitive, obscenely wasteful prohibitory legislation. |
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