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. Sent from my iPhone 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, > > -- > Prof. Harold K. Bush > Professor of English > 3800 Lindell > Saint Louis University > St. Louis, MO 63108 > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) > <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>