Harvard psychiatrist Grinspoon on David Brooks

 

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David Brooks

“His ignorance about this subject is vast”:‘ “I hope he’s on more solid ground with the other things he writes about in the New York Times,” says Dr. Lester Grinspoon of NYT columnist David Brooks. Grinspoon is a Harvard psychiatrist and author of the 1971 book, Marijuana Reconsidered.

Joe Dolce interviewed the 85-year-old Harvard professor emeritus about David Brooks’ widely-ridiculed NYT opinion piece in which Brooks wrote that he’d had fun smoking pot as a youth but believes other people should be punished for smoking pot. ‘ (Boing Boing).