"The presentation was successful and I was heartily congratulated. In the staff tearoom afterwards, still very stoned, listening to the ‘experts’ on human behaviour discussing drugs and how people cannot function on marijuana, I longed to ‘come clean’ and inform them of my present condition. Instead, I had this calm realisation that, given these were psychologists, the experts on the human mind and behaviour, then I really did not want to belong to such a group."

— My mother, the psychologist.