1. At the foundation of Pollans understanding of the effects of marijuana is this idea that it allows us to live in the now? Briefly, how does marijuana allow us to live in the present, according to Pollan? Why is living in the present pleasurable, as Pollan sees it? Following Pollans thinking (or logic), why living in the now an experience of innocence? How is it “more alive” and “nearer to direct experience? How can it be profound and revelatory? (You don’t have to answer all these subquestions. Just pick those that make your strongest case.)
2.Pollan turns to Aldous Huxley who discusses the effects of certain drugs in terms of opening the reducing valve through which we normally perceive. What does this mean? What is this reducing valve? Connect this idea with the idea of living in the now.
3.Explain how Pollan understand the phenomenon of pot-sponsored epiphanies appearing banal the next day (167 [149])?
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