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50 Famous Pot Smokers...

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This Map Shows Just How Quickly America Has Embraced Marijuana
  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    They left off Carl Sagan, just to mention one.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    I'm surprised they left out Al Gore. He invented marijuana. :rolleyes:
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      What's the deal with that Madonna image (#9)? Her arm looks nasty. It reminds me of the old nasty landlady with varicose veins on the movie Kingpin.
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        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        What's the deal with that Madonna image (#9)? Her arm looks nasty. It reminds me of the old nasty landlord lady with varicose veins on the movie Kingpin.
        I remember that, I'm going to watch that this weekend now!

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  • Profile picture of the author lcombs
    They also left off John and Robert Kennedy.

    I have to say, I was shocked at how many musicians and actors were on the list!
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

      They also left off John and Robert Kennedy.

      I have to say, I was shocked at how many musicians and actors were on the list!
      Years ago I was reading The Emperor wears no Clothes by Jack Herer and he mention in the book how JFK smoked because of his back problems.
      Being a big revelation to me I told my parents about it. They both gave me the "yeah what's your point" look and said everybody knew that.
      My father was in his late 30's when they made Cannabis illegal and till the day he died he thought that was one of the stupidest things our government ever did.
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      • Profile picture of the author lcombs
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Years ago I was reading The Emperor wears no Clothes by Jack Herer and he mention in the book how JFK smoked because of his back problems.
        Being a big revelation to me I told my parents about it. They both gave me the "yeah what's your point" look and said everybody knew that.
        My father was in his late 30's when they made Cannabis illegal and till the day he died he thought that was one of the stupidest things our government ever did.
        It puzzles me why it hasn't been legalized.
        Most of the members of the House of Representatives are of the generation
        when, if you didn't smoke pot, you were in the minority.
        To say nothing of the fact that it has proven medicinal value and no harmful
        properties.
        It would be an excellent money crop replacing tobacco for those farmers who have been hurt be the anti-smoking campaign, as well as a new source of tax revenue.
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

          It puzzles me why it hasn't been legalized.
          Most of the members of the House of Representatives are of the generation
          when, if you didn't smoke pot, you were in the minority.
          To say nothing of the fact that it has proven medicinal value and no harmful
          properties.
          It would be an excellent money crop replacing tobacco for those farmers who have been hurt be the anti-smoking campaign, as well as a new source of tax revenue.
          Special interest groups keep it illegal, that and the fedsalways seem to have a hard time admitting they're wrong.
          Ironically it was hemp production and a new easier way to separate the pulp from the fiber that started original prohibition. Hearst had his money in timber and had his newspapers to protect his investments. His smartest move was to use the Mexican slang term for Cannabis when he started his fear campaign. Everybody knew what hemp and cannabis where, nobody had ever heard of the new evil called marijuana.
          After 45 years of smoking cannabis and at least 30 years of learning about it, I'm past the legalize and tax idea.
          Now I say legalize and apologize.
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  • Profile picture of the author lcombs
    And, how could they have missed Elvis!!???

    "I missed my turn to smoke but I feel fine."

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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    Wasn't one of Harry Truman's mates from DuPont also behind the prohibition? DuPont had just recently invented something called nylon from which ropes could be made. I recall seeing something about that on a documentary a few years ago.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

      Wasn't one of Harry Truman's mates from DuPont also behind the prohibition? DuPont had just recently invented something called nylon from which ropes could be made. I recall seeing something about that on a documentary a few years ago.
      Yep it was Dupont, Hearst, I think one o f the pharmaceutical guys.
      Harry Anslinger was basically their guy in the govt. and I think related to Dupont.
      He had a high ranking job enforcing alcohol prohibition and needed a job.
      The thing was though that after alcohol prohibition failed they knew they wouldn't get away with cannabis prohibition on the federal level from the start, so the smear campaign was started in Hearst's papers saying this new drug called marijuana was now in the country and reporting on how it was causing blacks and Mexicans to go out and rape white women and murder people after smoking it.
      Anslinger went around from state to state convincing them to make "marijuana" illegal.
      When enough states signed on the feds passed the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act which made it impossible to grow hemp or Cannabis because of the cost. That also gave Anslinger a job making sure nobody was growing without the tax stamp (of which they only printed one for show).
      If I remember right it was Nixon who actually made it illegal on the federal level.
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Just wanted to add a couple things.
        That's just the general jest of what happened.
        Second when the tax stamp thing was going through congress, nobody knew that marijuana was cannabis. So the medical profession or no one else protested, except the bird seed industry.
        They figured out what was going on and had an exemption for hemp seeds written into the law. The only thing was the seeds had to be sterilized.
        To this day if you look at any quality bird seed for song birds it has hemp seeds in it.
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    They actually showed this to my high school class.
    I don't think they had a clue that we wouldn't take it seriously until the entire auditorium started laughing.

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  • Profile picture of the author lcombs
    Something else....

    The concept of this thread is ludicris.
    Seriously! 50 famous people who smoke pot and the 1st one on the list is Snoop Dog!!??
    How about 10,000 famous people who smoke pot.
    Starting with every band who performed at Woodtock.
    Better yet, virtually every Jazz musician from at least the '50s on.
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    The list is incomplete without our own HeySal.
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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      The list is incomplete without our own HeySal.
      LOL. I think it was the word "influential" that kept me off the list. However - I am a lightweight. I used to both drink and smoke a lot during my college days. Now, though, I'm just a lightweight. I only drink a few times a year - serious. I just never really bother with it. A Mike's hard lemonade or split a bottle of Asti with someone at a meet-up.

      Thom can verify that I don't smoke enough to be able to actually handle it without melting into a little puddle before crawling off to fall asleep from it.
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    Uh....
    Ted Nugent.
    And.... I think that's about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

      Uh....
      Ted Nugent.
      And.... I think that's about it.
      Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is another.
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Big Business (aka liquor) has a vested interest in ensuring pot does NOT become legalized.

    Having witnessed the utter devastation drinking can wreak on people.... it's sheer hypocrisy.

    Very sad.
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
      Most of the members of the House of Representatives are of the generation when, if you didn't smoke pot, you were in the minority.
      They tend to oppose it because a huge chunk of the electorate is, or is heavily influenced by, people from an earlier time. Then there are the social campaigners who've got a vested interest in controlling groups of followers, and who have somehow equated pot use with other 'dangerous' activities.

      Of course, these are the same types who regularly use phrases like "sex and violence," and don't get what connecting the two says about their own psychological make-ups. Is that really the sort of mindset we want in our thought leaders and policy makers?


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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

        They tend to oppose it because a huge chunk of the electorate is, or is heavily influenced by, people from an earlier time. Then there are the social campaigners who've got a vested interest in controlling groups of followers, and who have somehow equated pot use with other 'dangerous' activities.

        Of course, these are the same types who regularly use phrases like "sex and violence," and don't get what connecting the two says about their own psychological make-ups. Is that really the sort of mindset we want in our thought leaders and policy makers?


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        LOL, Paul. Very astute point. They've enraged me over so many things lately that I've never even noticed that one. Time to dust off the cinder block again.
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