Grinspoon, Lester

This quotation comes from an anonymous essay that Sagan wrote for Grinspoon, Lester, Marijuana Reconsidered (Oakland, California Quick American Archives 2nd edition, 1994). Also see Poundstone, William, Carl Sagan A Life in the Cosmos (New York Henry Holt Company, 1999) and Kick, Russ, The Disinformation Book of Lists QAqw York The Disinformation Company, 2004), 21. 

For an excellent list of great modern scientists who were inspired by marijuana and psychedelics, see Kick, Russ, The Disinformation Book of Lists (New York The Disinformation Company, 2004), 17. See also Grinspoon, Lester, Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press revised edition, 1997) and Dana Larsen, Stoned Scientists, Cannabis Culture Magazine, April 4,2003, http //www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2783.html... 

Grinspoon, Lester, and James Bakular. 1976. Cocaine. New York Basic Books. Halikas, James, et al. 1997. "Craving." In Substance Abuse A Comprehensive Textbook, edited by Joyce H. Lowinson, Pedro Ruiz, Robert B. Millman, and John... 

Grinspoon, Lester, and Bakalar, James B. Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered. New York The Lindesmith Center, 1997. 

Grinspoon, Lester. The Harmfulness Tax. Social Research, vol. 68, Fall 2001, pp. 880ff. The author proposes a realistic approach to a situation where, in a free society, people will take drugs that can be harmful. Drugs would be legalized and taxed, with the tax being used to pay for drug education and... 

Grinspoon, Lester, and Rick Doblin. Psychedelics as Catalysts of Insight-oriented Psychotherapy. Social Research (Fall 2001) 677-698. 

Grinspoon, Lester and James B. Bakalar. Marijuana, The Forbidden Medicine. New Haven, Conn. Yale University, 1993. 

Grinspoon, Lester. Marihuana Reconsidered. Oakland, Ca. Quick American Archives, 1994. 

These three volunteers represented only a fraction of the varieties of experience we observed in our volunteers. Other publications provide additional examples. In their highly scholarly book, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar provide many other examples of individual personal experiences. Highly literate or artistic individuals often describe elaborate spiritual visions or magical mystery tours (as in the Beatles song, perhaps inspired by such trips). 

Bakalar, James B. and Lester Grinspoon. Drug Control in a Free Society. Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge University Press, 1984. 

Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered... 

Houston and Stanley Krippner. Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar from Harvard have compiled a list of LSD s contributions—largely missing before then—to our popular language ... 

A more comprehensive and scholarly work is Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon and fames B. Bakalar (New York Basic Books, 1979) it contains a complete bibliography and discusses the uses of hallucinogens in psychotherapy. 

Whether they support medical marijuana use or not, many doctors resent the intrusion of nonmedically trained politicians and law enforcement officials into the debate on medical marijuana. One of the most outspoken critics of the government s medical marijuana policy is Lester Grinspoon, M.D., an associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has written two books on the medicinal use of marijuana and served as an official at NORML. After his son died ftom leukemia (a cancer of the blood system). Dr. Grin-spoon became an avid medical marijuana activist, often recommending marijuana to his cancer and AIDS patients. Speaking about his firsthand experience with the medical use of marijuana, Grinspoon said ... 

Dr. Lester Grinspoon supports the use of medicul murijuufm to relieve the pain and nausea caused by AIDS and cancer treatments. 

Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1977. This marijuana expert, both a doctor and Harvard professor, reveals the misunderstandings behind marijuana prohibition in an intelligent manner. 

Shulgin, A. T. 1983. Twenty years on an ever-changing quest. In Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar [eds.], "Psychedelic Reflections",... 

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