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With refusal to enter the fray associated with whether cannabis is or isn’t a gateway drug… do you know activist, author, and all-around accomplished woman, Maya Angelou, imbibed during her late teens and early twenties?

Introduced to recreational while working at a bar, she fondly recalled its ability to enhance four of the five senses (taste, sound, smell, and touch) in the second installment of her autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, initially published in 1974.

A self-described disciplined Toker, she was well-versed in the vernacular practiced by consumers during the 1940s and described its access in Black ghettos as being slightly more difficult to obtain than rationed whiskey. Later at the behest of her presumed common-law husband, she briefly used cocaine but was dissuaded from shooting heroin with another lover after he suggested that she had a higher calling.

The recipient of more than fifty honorary degrees, three Grammy awards, a P…