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How often did Carl Sagan smoke marijuana?

Asked by Qingu (21185points) February 16th, 2010

It is well know (among some communities) that Carl Sagan, eminent astronomer and populizer of science, was a total pothead.

But how often did he smoke weed? Once a week? Once a day? Several times a day?

The only reference I could find to Sagan’s frequency of use is in his masterful essay about the joys of smoking pot, where he says, “Through the years I find that slightly smaller amounts of cannabis suffice to produce the same degree of high, and in one movie theater recently I found I could get high just by inhaling the cannabis smoke which permeated the theater.”

And I’m not really sure how to interpret this. He also says “I find that today a single joint is enough to get me high.” To my eyes, that seems to be a lot to get high. So together these two statements could imply that Carl Sagan has smoked so much pot that he is no longer even building up a tolerance to it. But that still doesn’t even answer how often he smoked.

Like space, a grand and glorious mystery.

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