EXCERPT: {{{You’ve probably seen those “Above The
Influence” anti-drug commercials in which they show worst
scenario outcomes to people smoking weed. Really depressing sh*t.
They always make the person out to be an accidental murderer, or
homeless, jobless, friendless. No prospects of anything positive
on the horizon. Well, we have a list of the smartest people who
ever admitted to smoking pot as a nice complement to the most
successful people who owned up to puffin’ dope. Suck it,
ATI.}}}
When are we as a
population going to demand that our government stop pushing their
legal (LETHAL) dope on us... EXAMPLES BELOW:
MIRAPEX - for "Restless Leg Syndrome"
"...hallucinations may occur..."
"...increased gambling, sexual, or other overpowering
urges..."
ABILIFY - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia
"coma or death...And trouble swallowing."
FLOMAX - decreases symptoms from having an enlarged prostate
(mainly frequent urination)
* runny nose
* dizziness
* decrease in semen
ALLI - weight loss aid
"These changes may include gas with oily discharge, an
increased number of bowel movements, an urgent need to have them,
and an inability to control them."
VERAMYSYT - "treats allergy symptoms with a gentle fine mist
that is scent-free."
"nasal sores, glaucoma, cataracts and nasal fungal
infection"
More disturbingly, ads for Veramyst used to say, "The way
VERAMYST works is not entirely understood."
ORTHO-NOVUM - birth control pill
"...benign but dangerous liver tumors. These benign liver
tumors can rupture and cause fatal internal bleeding. In
addition, some studies report an increased risk of developing
liver cancer."
ADVAIR - asthma treatment
"asthma related death"
CHANTIX - anti-smoking aid
"Nausea, sleep disturbance, constipation, flatulence, and
vomiting."
{{{That doesn't sound so bad, except "sleep
disturbance" is more like psychotic nightmares that persist
even after you stop taking the pill.}}} MORE
HERE
...and
make common-sense drugs LEGAL??? It will be a Happy New Year 2012
when they first legalize medical marijuana (DUH)
and then the recreational kind. thinkingblue
Francis Crick - As a
founding member of Soma, a legalize cannabis group, he also
experimented pot, which he believed helped to remove the filters
of abstract thought.
It’s been reported the Apple co-founder smoked pot and took
LSD in his first semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in
1972. Since dropping out from the school, he’s only gone on
to become one of the most successful and wealthiest people in
America. In 1984, he received the National Medal of Technology
from President Ronald Reagan. In 2007, Fortune Magazine named him
the most powerful person in business and then California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger inducted him into the California Hall of
Fame. Fortune also named him CEO of the Decade in 2009 while
Forbes ranked him #57 on their list of the World’s Most
Powerful People that same year. The Financial Times named Jobs
its person of the year for 2010.
I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can have those kind
of accolades being dumb. Plus, the guy’s a Beatles fan,
dated Joan Baez, and sold one of his houses to Bono from U2.
That’s some hip, hip company, my friend.
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, pothead.
It’s hard to argue for pot slowing you down when you look at
Carl Sagan’s record. Apparently a confirmed and admitted
stoner, among his many achievements are a Pulitzer Prize, an
Emmy, a best-selling novel, as well as more than 500 science
papers and articles. He was a founding member of the Planetary
Society, and he won a pipe load of scientific awards. Hardly
surprising, he is said to have believed in the validity of stoned
insights. I believe in them too, it’s just that Carl’s
revolved around the origins of the cosmos, not which bagel store
is open at 3 in the morning.
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, biologist, science historian.
Most famous scientific contribution was the theory of punctuated
equilibrium, which says that most evolution is marked by long
periods of stability. Kind of like most of us after a good bong
hit. One of the most influential and best read writers of popular
science, Gould became an advocate for medical marijuana following
his diagnosis with cancer. He claimed it had an “important
effect” on his recovery. He also testified in court to the
benefits of marijuana, and is quoted as saying “it is beyond
my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a
beneficial substance from people in such great need simple
because others use it for different purposes.”
Gould used pot to help retain his health for twenty years, the
same period during which he wrote The Structure of Evolutionary
Theory, not what you might call an insignificant work.
Francis Crick
Won a Nobel Prize for figuring out the double-helix structure of
DNA. Rumor has it that he was on acid at the time. Crick
wasn’t the first to see twin twisted monsters coming at him
during an acid plunge, but he was the first to recognize as an
important scientific discovery. As a founding
member of Soma, a legalize cannabis group, he also experimented
pot, which he believed helped to remove the filters of abstract
thought.
Margaret Mead
Ok, so it’s probably not totally accurate to describe
Margaret Mead as a pothead, but she was a major proponent for
marijuana, so we’re going to widen the definition a bit.
When she died in 1978, Mead was possibly the most famous
Anthropologist on the planet. Time had named her Mother of the
World in 1969. She authored or co-authored around 40 books,
received 28 honorary doctorates, and was President of both the
American Anthropological Association and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Most famously, she testified
before Congress on the legalization of marijuana. She testified
on lots of stuff, but it’s this one everyone remembers.
Afterwards, she was called a dirty old lady, crazy, and no doubt
many other things.
Andrew Weil
Had a mushroom named after him. Do we need to know any more?
Well, yes, we do. Although he looks like he’s been binging
on an all-night high, Dr. Weil has medical and biology degrees
from Harvard, is a naturopath, as well as a widely acknowledged
expert on medicinal herbs, alternative medicines, and mind and
body interactions. He was on the cover of Time, has written a
bunch of books, and used to write for High Times. He talks about
the advantages of stoned thinking, as well as an innate need to
alter consciousness. Is that him or us? Whatever, it’s
clearly worked for him.
Kary Mullis
Another Nobel Prize winner, another stoner. Mullis tried heavier
drugs than just pot. He invented the polymerase chain reaction,
which if it’s slipped your mind, is the one that allows
duplication of parts of DNA. He says acid helped him to develop
it, perhaps along with pot, which he allegedly smoked just before
his first trip. While most of us have trouble figuring out how a
chair works when we’re high, this guy was working out how to
mimic nature.
Oliver Sacks
If you’ve seen “Awakenings” with Robin Williams,
you already know something of Oliver Sacks’ work. He’s
a neurologist, the film based on his book of the same name. He
also wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sacks is an
Oxford graduate and professor of neurology at Columbia Medical
Center. He’s been referred to as the poet laureate of
medicine, and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates in
the field of neurological science. Not bad for a man who’s
admitted to using marijuana on a more that recreational level,
seeing it as a potential gateway to other minds and other
consciousnesses.
Richard Feynman
Physicist who helped design the atomic bomb. Well, nobody said
anyone on this list was wise, just smarter than average. Feynman
used pot to enhance his out of body experiences while in a
sensory deprivation tank. When he came out, he won a Nobel Prize
for his theory of quantum electrodynamics.
Sergey Brin
He has a BS from the University of Maryland, a MS from Stanford
and took PhD courses at Stanford before putting that on hiatus to
co-found Google with Larry Page. His dad’s a math professor
at the University of Maryland. His mom’s a research
scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His wife,
Ann Wojcicki, is a biotech analyst who graduated with a B.S. in
biology from Yale in 1996. She and Brin are working with leading
researchers to help doctors, patients, and researchers analyze
the human genome data and try to repair “bugs” as if
DNA were HTML. He was inducted into the National Academy of
Engineering, which is “among the highest professional
distinctions accorded to an engineer” and received the
Marconi Foundation Prize, the “Highest Award in
Engineering”. Like Jobs (see above), he’s among the
wealthiest in the world. I can only imagine the first time he described DNA as HTML to
someone, he/she must’ve been like, “are you high?”
To which, he responded, “No! Why? You holdin’?”
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