When Simone de Beauvoir, the French existentialist, first tried to smoke marijuana, she, like Bill Clinton, did not inhale. It was May 3, 1947, and she was as new to New York City as she was to the drug.
Friends taught her how to breathe in the smoke, but she was immune to its effects. “I feel guilty,” she wrote, glumly, in her diary. “No angel bothers to lift me from earth.” She added, “I turn toward the bottle of bourbon.
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