Remember this little guy?

[Ichingcarpenter]

He ended up smoking pot

[Occulus]

1. Wasn't he, like, super smart and well-respected, too?

I can't remember. Must be the weed.

[tridim]

2. One of millions.

Lots of whom go on to do great things in life. He just did what humans have been doing since humans became human.

The DEA and Conservatives look at the photos in your post and say lock up that evil-doer, how dare he be free to contribute to the good of society.

[TupperHappy]

5. Are you sure he wasn't one of bill-yuns and bill-yuns? (nt)

[HopeHoops]

3. Not locking. It deals with the misconception that pot makes you stupid and criminal.

As Gallegher said, "Pot doesn't make me want to do crimes. It makes me want to crash on the couch."

I smoked a SHITLOAD of it, and took all of my college finals stoned all to Jesus, and still graduated Magna Cum Laude. Yes, it is relevant to science. Think what you want about pot, but it does open your mind up and make you focus on one thing at the same time. The OP is a relevant social post to the subject and NOT out of line.

Other hosts - please keep my comments in mind before you decide whether or not to lock this. I'm not going to.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Not locking.

Marginally related to scientific biography. Marginally.

[Scuba]

6. I give up. Who is it?

[xocet]

7. For the sake of completeness....

Here are an excerpt and a link to further information:

November 28, 1999
Star Power
Two biographies of Carl Sagan explore the scientist as celebrity and the celebrity as scientist.

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Sagan's role as a celebrity-scientist defines two biographies published simultaneously by two leading science journalists, Keay Davidson of The San Francisco Examiner and William Poundstone, a Los Angeles freelance writer. Davidson's ''Carl Sagan: A Life'' and Poundstone's ''Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos'' both narrate Sagan's Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn and New Jersey, and emphasize his aloofness from Judaism and his skeptical outlook on religion. Both provide engaging accounts of the politics and technology of the space program during Sagan's involvement with it. Both reveal Sagan as a dreadful narcissist and an irresponsible parent until middle age, when his third wife, Ann Druyan, apparently transformed him into a something of a mensch. Both books delight in the discovery that Sagan smoked bales of marijuana and attributed to the weed vital moments of intellectual inspiration. Yet these two accessible, carefully documented biographies diverge fortuitously in the details of their exploration of Sagan's life.

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http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/28/reviews/991128.28holingt.html