Sagan, you look high.

Wish we could smoke with you now and talk about K2-18b.

When I show up to an in-person interview high, in hopes they'll think that's my regular behavior:

I mean… if you are always high then that isn’t wrong is it?

To make an apple pie you gotta first create the universe. Def a stoner thought lol

Apple Pie

Sensitivity and fellowship, yet my (former) friend who is a big stoner has gone all-in on conspiracy theories and is championing the Reform party in the UK because Labour are apparently race traitors. Guess weed can't do all the lifting.

If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.
- Yeah for people like Sagan, the "serenity" he's referring to is probably more about quieting his mind.
Maybe weed isn’t relevant in that case, let’s not forget that in the US, weed was promoted by liberals and opposed by the MAGA crowd.
Yeah that quote is very naive and privileged.
Can't win em all. Also, weed in the UK is rubbish /s

Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.

You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.

There's already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.
This is why I really fear it. Then again it helped me find god. Which i then realized structurally does create the complacent worker through pacifying rather than inciting any real change. So I am back to thinking it is a crutch.

Boston City Hall is truly a legendarily gaudy building.

Space Kermit was pretty far out there, man.

Yeah, that's one of the things that I disagree about with the world's most senior space cadet.

TBF, just imagine what a place the world would be if the world leader's idea of quality downtime would be a fat bong, Cartoon Channel and pizza.
To each his own, and though I have never consumed any kind of drugs nor think I ever will (nor can't understand the need of drugs beyond medical field, pretty much contrary of what it is stated in the quote of this post), I concede keeping it illegal while at the same time alcohol and nicotine are both completely legal is one of the reasons I still think our so-called "civilization" is extremely idiotic, mediocre and pathetic. Either make all of them legal but regulate their consumption or make it so it never bothers anyone else or anything else in any way, or make all of them illegal - but the disparity of current legislation about all of them around the world is just nonsense.
- Are they completely legal though? They're age-restricted everywhere I can think of, and you can't drive or operate heavy machinery under their influence. So they're, like, legal but with a couple of caveats?
How come?
I must ask why; the prohibition of it doesn't make any sense to me at all. It's all but proven fact that it's not any more harmful than either smoking cigarettes, or drinking alcohol.
Both of which are completely legal to consume all day, every day.
Weed simply doesn't deserve the status it is given, it was placed on schedule 1 as a gigantic middle finger from the ruling class, against the working class. They did it to punish those they saw as their lessers, and so they could have the police rough up anyone because they owned a small amount of the substance. But the cigarettes and alcohol they've enjoyed for decades and many of them have profited from? Those are fine. This new thing (at the time) that they aren't profiting off of? Let's make it illegal, so we can force everyone to use the things we do profit from.
That's basically the backstory here.
Why you, or anyone would oppose lifting that prohibition is confusing at best, racist/classest at worst.
I'm genuinely curious how you have come to have the position you do. If you don't like it, nobody is going to force you to use the stuff, same with alcohol and cigarettes. So why do you care?

If there is one thing weed is really good at, it is making people okay with being lazy and with their current situation. LSD on the otherhand, can really make you rethink everything.

Did Sagan say that in writing? I know he wrote a few things about his experiences with pot, but those were informal, anecdotal writings, and this sounds much more formal, almost like a public statement meant for publication, or a speech.

Here is a summary with a link to the PDF: https://bigthink.com/health/carl-sagan-on-smoking-marijuana/