Note to David Brooks

One of the biggest potheads ever--for his entire adult life--was a guy named Louis Armstrong--perhaps the most important American artist of the century.   I believe that after he died they found a crate of it in his basement.  For one thing, he was one of the few jazz greats who may have never done heroin.  Here are some of his many testimonials to it and his famous reefer song (in code, as per song title, "Muggles"):