No single experiment could yield valid results unless it is conducted over many years. There are too many strains of the stuff - and each affects the user differently

--- I have it from a reliable source.

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On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Larry, I think I am correct is stating unequivocally that more than a few
> on this LIST have already performed that experiment.
> 
> More usefully:  the old Hoffman thesis about MT's possible sexual
> adventuring in the mining camps and then SF was based to a large extent on
> speculations about the "counter-cultures" already at work in those regions.
> What do we actually know about marijuana usage at the same time, and those
> same places?  For instance, as the reporter on theatre in SF, I would
> imagine that he was at least around the stuff, and knew the smell, etc.
> 
> just thinking out loud here, --Hal B.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Peter--
>> 
>> I don't know if this is true, but it might explain why some of my students
>> =
>> claim that Twain reads funnier under certain conditions.  Before anyone on
>> =
>> this list performs this experiment oneself,
> 
> -- 
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