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Morgan Freeman has made an emphatic plea for the legalisation of marijuana use in US and “across the board”.
The actor has been taking the drug for pain relief purposes following a car accident that left him with a shattered arm in 1977.
“This movement is really a long time coming, and it’s getting legs—longer legs,” he told the Daily Beast .
VIDEO “Now, the thrust is understanding that alcohol has no real medicinal use. Maybe if you have one drink it’ll quiet you down, but two or three and you’re f***ed.”
He said he’d been using cannabis for medical purposes for “many years”.
“However it comes! I’ll eat it, drink it, smoke it, snort it!”
Show all 14 1 /14Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Barack Obama "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Bill Maher "Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Boris Johnson "It was jolly nice. But apparently it is very different these days. Much stronger. I've become very illiberal about it. I don't want my kids to take drugs."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Bill Clinton "I experimented with marijuana a time or two."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Jon Stewart “Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Harriet Harman "I did, when I was at university, smoke cannabis once or twice." But she quickly added she had not taken the drug since then. "I have indulged in the odd glass of wine but not cannabis."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Martha Stewart “Of course I know how to role a joint.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Bill Gates In Stephen Manes’ biography about the Microsoft founder, he writes: “As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice…”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Oprah Winfrey Asked by Andy Cohen when the last time she’d smoked cannabis was, she answered: “Uh … 1982.” “Let's hang out after the show,” Cohen joked. “Okay,” Winfrey said, laughing. “I hear it's gotten better.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis George W. Bush "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Sarah Palin "I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis David Letterman “I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.”
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Morgan Freeman "Never give up the ganja."
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Unexpected successful people who have admitted to smoking cannabis Steve Jobs “The best way I would describe the effect of the marijuana and the hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative.”
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