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When I lived in Mexico, the natives who had used mescaline told me also about marijuana which, in those days, was almost unheard of by young American students. The point is that the Mexicans who smoked marijuana cigarettes did not do so to expand their minds or to alter their consciousnesses--the common phrases today. They did so simply because these cigarettes were regarded as aphrodisiacs.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 153