Terence McKenna – 124 Trialogue 1991 Cannabis

Terence McKenna: “In the absence of cannabis the dream life seems to become much richer. This causes me
to sort of form a theory, just for my own edification, that cannabis must in some sense thin the boundary
between the conscious and unconscious mind. … And if you smoke cannabis, the energy which would normally
be channeled into dreams is instead manifest in the reveries of the cannabis intoxication.”
Terence McKenna: “And what I really value about cannabis is the way in which it allows one to be taken by
surprise by unexpected ideas.”
Terence McKenna: “Alcohol, on the other hand, is demonstrably one of the most destructive of all social
habits. What a bright world it would be if every alcoholic were a pothead.”