The papers on the table were full of the great and famous names of inventing things, the names of more than a hundred medicines, the food of hundreds of delicious flavors, the cultivation of hundreds of new varieties of cannabis sativa, the discovery of which would have made Bradbury proud.
And all the time he was writing and reading and trying to write about the uses and abuses of the wondery and its practitioners, he was thinking to himself: "What do they use it for? And why do they do it? What validates their claims?"
Nothing, that is it, nothing.