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More importantly, you can strengthen the case against your more straight-laced, beer-drinking Harvard colleagues. Grinspoon has shaped a compelling and coherent argument against claims that pot is any more dangerous than, say, alcohol...
...Lester Grinspoon...
...updated introduction to the 1994 edition, Grinspoon makes it clear that his intent is neither to encourage nor to stigmatize those who partake of the demon flower. This is just the facts, ma'am, a fogie's guide to Xanadu. Grinspoon has collected and synthesized a great deal of information, and he gives ample to time to the anti-weed agenda. The author quotes a few scary tidbits from the FBI: "He [the user] becomes a fiend with savage or 'cave man' tendencies. His sex desires are aroused and some of the most horrible crimes result..." Horrible crimes...
...this research is after all, personal and subjective. Grinspoon, by necessity, aims for generalizations. Maribuana Reconsidered is a long book, equal parts history, biology and psyche, with a little bit of philosophical speculation thrown in for good measure. You might want to skip a few of the more boring chapters, particularly "From Plant to Intoxicant," which will only interest the most finicky connoisseurs...
More compelling are the case studies from history and literature presented in "Acute Intoxication-Literary Reports." Grinspoon includes everything from Theophile de Gaultier's observations of "a multitude of bodiless heads like cherubims, with such comical expressions" to Alan Ginsburg's musings on the benefits of snibidish, all vigorously footnoted...