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As was Timothy Leary on LSD! http://deoxy.org/leary.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary



Not into weed, never was, even though a child of the 60s. Never turned on or tuned in, but did drop out & enlist in the Nuclear Navy during Nam.

Sound medicinal or therapeutic uses make sense, & research should continue.

However, recreational or experimental use of mind & mood altering drugs is very risky. I knew a number of souls who altered their consciousness & never recovered, yes, even on grass. Habitual pot robbed them of their motivation and ability to face the challenges of daily life, just like alcohol or other drugs can. Many others did just fine, and have (had) accomplished, rewarding lives like Carl Sagan.

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According to his biographer, Carl Sagan kept it quiet...



http://froogle.google.com/froogle?hl=en&lr=&q=Carl%20Sagan%3A%20A%20Life&btnG=Search&...

Many things are revealed in the biographies that were not known outside a close circle of friends. For much of his adult life, Sagan used marijuana and believed that it gave him many of his best ideas. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/475954.stm

Carl Sagan was an avid user of marijuana, although he never publicly admitted it during his life. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X," he wrote an essay concerning cannabis smoking in the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered, whose editor was Lester Grinspoon[4]. In his essay, Sagan commented that marijuana encouraged some of his works and enhanced experiences[4]. After Sagan's death, Grinspoon disclosed this to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson[5]. When the biography, entitled Carl Sagan: A Life, was published in 1999, the marijuana exposure stirred some media attention[6]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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"Who's Out There? 1975" - National Archives film explores the new view of extraterrestrial life (1975)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6292577234133732501&q=649442

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Free online courses for anyone who wants to brush up on their Astronomy... http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/Astronomy/default.asp

Physics... http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/Physics/default.asp

or other sciences... http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/default.asp

or math... http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Math/default.asp

or whatever... http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/FreeEdMain01.asp

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Lesson 26: Life on Other Worlds...

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/Astronomy/GenAstro/IntroAstronomy01_VOD.asp

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When Galaxies Collide
Photograph by NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (USCS/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA

The violent meeting of two galaxies dislodges a tail of stars and gas in a view from the Hubble Space Telescope. The tail is more than 280,000 light-years long, or almost three times the length of the Milky Way. Galaxy collisions play out over hundreds of millions of years. In this one the spiral galaxy UGC 10214, dubbed the Tadpole, broke apart when it was sideswiped by a smaller star system, visible as the blue compact galaxy in the upper left region of the Tadpole. Stars themselves don't crash head-on. It's the gravitational fields of the dark matter and visible matter that get mangled together, throwing stars out of their orbits. Dozens of distant galaxies glint in the background, many of them also in the process of colliding. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0302/feature1/zoom3.html