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To: Snowshoe who wrote (117491)	3/25/2016 8:13:09 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217638

lol. A blast from the past-lol. You know snowshoe when I was in college we sort of made a decision that we guessed that of all the drugs pot was the safest. Looks like we made a good guess. I would not have had nearly as much fun in life without pot-lol. And I'm getting to the age where people don't have much credibility telling me it's hurting my health-lol. Humans don't live much older than I am right now. Carl Sagan was a pothead. He had a theory on what happens with pot which he outlined in his book Brocca's brain. His theory was that the left brain rides roughshod over the right brain. But when one gets stoned, the left brain has much more trouble with pot than the right brain. And he thought that pot tied up the left brain which allowed the right brain to roam free and work on it self-actualization-lol. That seems sort of like what happens. I'm a pretty decent poker player, but I don't play stoned and unless it's just a nickel dime game. It's a lot more fun to play stoned but when they had poker online I tried it many many times and it does not work out well. Though I do laugh more-lol. But as far as stimulating creative ideas, I think there is little doubt hat pot helps that process. Here's how Robert Ornstein one of the great experimental psychologists and one the world's foremost authorities on left brain, right brain, explained the functioning of the two hemispheres. He said the left brain is involved in sequential logic. And this is one of my favorite descriptions of all time:" the right brain is involved in the simultaneous juxtaposition of things"-lol. That is one of the biggest mistakes the academicians make about people's capabilities. Our friend Dick was terrible at math, he would stumble over a basic statistics course. But there is little doubt he was the smartest of all of us. He wrote books better than Hemingway in every respect. He was the funniest of all of us and a joy to be around at all times. And he made that personality up out of his mind. He got his PhD degree when he was barely 22 by writing a book on seal hunting at Point Hope where he became the best seal Hunter in the village. And then he goes to Hawaii as a professor at the University becomes a surfer dude and runs off with the prettiest and best surfer girl in Hawaii-lol. That is true! . He lived a better and more exciting life than anyone I know, by figuring out how to do it, and then he did it. He once told me everybody talks about doing stuff, but I do it. Of course girls were always puty in his hands because what woman can resist a guy like that-lol. He was the alpha male and we are all happy just to bathe in his amazing personality.-lol. He and I used to get stoned together all the time and take magical mystery tour's through the back alleys of Seattle when we lived together down there. He was a visiting professor and I was working on my Masters degree. We called them magical mystery tour's. I got down there first, and then he followed as he was sort of messed up at the time and I was kind of helping him along. Mostly by getting him stoned and telling him jokes, and giving him my girlfriend -lol. Well, he actually took her-lol. The irony is the minute he came down he immediately stole my girlfriend. But I found another one and we had so much fun all four of us getting stoned listening to Fleetwood Mac and going on our magical mystery tour's through the back alleys of Seattle and then on to some of Seattle's fine restaurants. Those were sure fun times and they would not have been nearly as fun without pot.