For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has … - Patrick O'Brian

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Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

Patrick O'Brian

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.

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