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...surprise, then, at a report in the current Nature. Chemicals found in chocolate, it seems, go after the same brain receptor system targeted by marijuana. In theory, you could even get high on chocolate--though not easily. Unlike THC, the active ingredient in pot, chocolate's chemicals turn on only a few circumscribed regions of the brain. A 130-lb. person would have to eat about 25 lb. of the stuff in one sitting to get a noticeable buzz...
...they include the fear attached to everything new--modified versions of the terror he experienced at taking that first shower at U.Va. Then there is the fact of immobility itself, which entails an entire reorganization of one's image. He loathes the fact that he is developing a small pot belly because of atrophied abdominal muscles...
...here we are, in the summer of 1996, with Susan Molinari--someone who was barely out of college when politicians began to describe collegiate pot smoking as experimentation--saying, "I did experiment with marijuana." She says she did it "less than a handful of times." She says that "looking back on it, it was the wrong thing to do." Evidently the guy with the Fu Manchu mustache still hadn't graduated...
...hasten to say I don't care whether Susan Molinari smoked pot in college. I say this as someone who, being closer in age to Bob Dole than to Susan Molinari, has passed blithely through successive national crazes for marijuana and white wine and Perrier water and microbeers without wavering for a moment in a lifelong loyalty to Scotch whisky...
Apparently, Molinari didn't know that the first time she was asked about marijuana, in 1992. She said she'd never smoked pot, leaving herself open to being nailed later for lying. Now she understands the drill. When she followed the prescribed script, she instantly became virtuous enough to open the convention. There were no complaints, even from those militant Christian-morality monitors I have come to think of as the Khomeini wing of the Republican Party. Dole and I went back to our Scotches...