Dr. Marc Breedlove

I've never been around people smoking marijuana before.

And they assure me, oh, the campus cops, they'll look the other way.

And I'm thinking, and that very summer in Greene County, where I'm from, a judge had sentenced a young man for possession of marijuana, had given him a life sentence.

Whoa.

For possession of weed?

This is 1972, and this is the Ozarks, right?

Not the same sort of place.

So I'm thinking, well, maybe the campus cops would overlook you smoking dope, but I'm not going to give Yale any excuse to send me home.

It was like a kid in a candy shop.

And because I regarded everyone there as – they certainly knew more than I did, all of them.

And they were probably smarter than I – it was like I never felt the pressure to be the smartest person in the room.

OK, I'm not – I don't care.

And I took as many classes as I could.

And I always wanted to take six – you were supposed to take no more than five courses each.

term.

And so I would always want to take six and the dean wouldn't let me.

So I'd take five courses in a lab, which is like half a course, et cetera.

And I'm just, you know, I'm not getting A's and everything, but I don't care, right?

So I'm having a great time.

And that's when I learned about neuroscience.