That useful substance

[Jeremy Osner]

In the introduction to Slow Learner Pynchon says neither to whom nor
how, marijuana can be useful. Any notion that it is useful To Artists
and Storytellers, or it is useful In A Shamanic Context, is the
reader's.

Jeremy, who saw the blessed kind of regeneration be toyed with by
thugs...

--
Floating down the river of dreams
I see strange things, things I never seen
But the crazier things get you know, the more real they seem

-- Other People's Children
"Insects of Sleep"