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Mark Mathew Braunstein (born August 6, 1951)[1] is an American writer, nature photographer, art librarian, and advocate of medical marijuana legalization. His writing focuses on the topics of vegetarianism/veganism, wildlife conservation, animal rights, sprouting, and raw food. Braunstein has written six books, including his sixth, Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers, and his first, Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic, and many magazine articles.
Mark Mathew Braunstein | |
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Braunstein in 2010 | |
| Born | August 6, 1951 |
| Occupation | Writer |
Braunstein was born in New York City. His parents were Benjamin and Clare Braunstein. Benjamin Braunstein (died 2005) was a book critic and a literature and journalism teacher at Bayside High School, Queens, New York City.[2] Clare Braunstein (January 20, 1926 - April 5, 2011) was a homemaker and an editor of the Hadassah newsletter, and of its cookbook entitled One People, One Heart: Culinary Classics. Mark Braunstein has a brother, Jack A. Braunstein of Gibson, Pennsylvania.[2]
In 1969, Mark Braunstein graduated from Farmingdale High School (Farmingdale, New York)[3] In 1974 he received his B.A.[1] degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. In 1978 he received a Master of Science degree at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
From 1978 to 1980, Braunstein was Editor at Rosenthal Arts Slides, Chicago. From 1980 to 1983 he was Assistant editor at Art Index in New York City. From 1983 to 1987 he was Head of slides and photographs at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Since 1987, he has been an art curator and art librarian at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
Braunstein has been a vegetarian since 1966 and a vegan since 1970.[4]
In 1981, Braunstein published his book, Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic.
An "About the Author" blurb in 1990 said this:
Mark M. Braunstein is the author of Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet & Ethic. In addition to editing reference books on art history, he writes about animal rights and wildlife for journals such as Animals' Agenda, Between the Species, Vegetarian Times, Backpacker and East West. He lives in a wildlife refuge in Quaker Hill, CT, where his favourite hobby is sabotaging hunting. He served as the guest editor for this issue of the Trumpeter.[5]
On August 6, 1990 (his 39th birthday), Braunstein became a paraplegic due to a spinal cord injury from a diving accident. Since then, he smokes marijuana to control the pain and spasms in his feet[6] and has been an advocate of medical marijuana legalization. He testified before committees of the Connecticut legislature seven times over 14 years, urging passage of bills to legalize medical marijuana.[7]
Braunstein, after discovering that some prostitutes were meeting with clients on his private road, began documenting their lives.[8] From his photographs of them and their life stories collected over a ten-year period, he created a literary and photography project entitled "Good Girls on Bad Drugs",[9] which explores the lives of streetwalkers in the New London, Connecticut, area.[10] In October 2017, Braunstein published a book entitled Good Girls on Bad Drugs: Addiction Nonfiction of the Unhappy Hookers.
His sixth and most recent book, Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers, was published in 2022.
Braunstein is single and lives in Quaker Hill, Connecticut.
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... ours is a sick society where misconception cons the conscience while nature's truths go unheard or unheeded, ...
Isaiah, the vegetarian prophet, meant also that humans must sit with the lamb, the kid, the ox -- because humans must make peace with the animals before they can make peace with other humans.
Along with the majority of the non-Caucasian adult world which cannot digest, and therefore does not drink, milk, you too will outgrow it if you withdraw all milk and milk products for one year.
He discovers the worst of conditions awaits the calves for whom the milk is intended. The farm family knows the true cost of milk, the price that must be paid with blood.
While North Americans forest disappear slowly but steadily, Central and South American rainforests disappear quicker than you can say, 'Cheeseburger.'
Only humans drink milk past puberty. Along with the majority of the non-Caucasian adult world which cannot digest -- and therefore does not drink -- milk, you, too, will outgrow it if you withdraw all milk and milk products from your diet for one year.
The hunters took aim (upon deer, not upon us) and were just about to release the bowstrings. BOOM! The blasts from our foghorns twice sent deer fleeing to safety.
On my thirty-ninth birthday, sober but celebratory, I dived off a footbridge into a river and emerged awaiting a wheelchair. I shattered my T12 vertebra and injured that fragile bundle of nerves called the spinal cord.
Once you hear their tragic life stories, you can no longer regard them as criminals or monsters or demons.
Exposed to insufficient light, seedlings grow long and frail stems in a vain attempt to reach for more light. Gardeners call this sorry state legginess. Botanists call it etiolation.
The transition from black-and-white lantern slides to 35mm color slides spanned 30 years—but the transition from 35mm film to digital images occurred virtually overnight. Farewell to the sparkling little gems and jewels called slides.Check the issn.
I became an old man in the blink of an eye. At age 39, I experienced instant old age when I dived off a footbridge into a river and did not land right. The impact broke my back, which injured my spinal cord, which paralyzed me below the waist.
Thus we count on a vegan's average life expectancy to be 90 years.
[S]moking cannabis leaves much to be desired when compared to breathing fresh air. Not smoking is better than smoking. But if light up you will, then follow some precautions to assure your good health, and you also will lighten up.
The War on Drugs is losing, and pot is winning. And people who use medical marijuana have won the right to choose the treatment option in all of Canada, most of Western Europe, and half of the United States.
So next time you're famished and a long way from home, drive up to a Wendy's outlet and order a Baked Potato with Nothing on It, meaning no sour cream and chives, no butter, and no margarine.
Only a fool would intentionally hold his nose while eating, yet we essentially are thumbing our noses at our food when we pay scant attention to what we eat.
What started in 2008 as a partnership between an artists residency center and a foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with spinal cord injuries has grown into a sprawling, multi-site opportunity unlike any other.
Was my lack of decorum the thoughtless and reflexive response of a self-righteous animal-rightist? Did my reply stir in him a bitter memory of an incident with some cantankerous vegan more strident than even I?
Connecticut has gotten right most parts of its medical marijuana program, but some parts are broken. Legalizing adult recreational use of cannabis can fix what's broken and can prevent from breaking what's fixed.
Now that [growing cannabis is] legal for Connecticut's 53,700 patients, a question hangs in the air. How to get started?
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