Celebrity Stoners

Feature: Celebrity Stoners
Monday, November 6th, 2006

Marijuana, cannabis, mary jane, the sticky icky. It goes by many names but one thing is for sure - it’s an awesome recreational and medicinal herb that is free from hangovers and sends you flying high within minutes after tokin’. We’ve all tried it or at least know someone who has, but not much is said about celebrities having a few puffs off the ole peace pipe. That’s where we come in. Browse below to check out some of the celebrities that have indulged in the forbidden herb in our latest feature - Celebrity Stoners.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt used to toke together according to a quote from Aniston in Rolling Stone magazine regarding the tabloids accusing them of having a drug problem: “You see something like that - me and my husband, hooked on drugs. Then you read the story, and it says you smoke pot. It’s not even cocaine or shooting heroin. Pot!”

Al Gore and Bill Clinton have both admitted to using. Gore was quoted as saying: “During my junior and senior year of college, it was looked at in the same way moonshine was looked at in Prohibition days.” Newsflash: It still is. Former president Clinton echoed the famous line: “When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn’t like it, I didn’t inhale it, and never tried it again.” And you had no sexual relations with Miss Lewinski… come on Billy, we’re not all that stupid.

Bill Gates, the richest man on the planet, broke off a relationship with a former employee at a coffeehouse in Amsterdam. He was also arrested for a minor felony and the reasoning was never disclosed but more than likely it was due to having a small amount of cannabis on him.

Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing James Bond in four films, had photos of him snapped inside a headshop in Malibu, California that were published in The Star. Apparently he took his sweet time looking through all the pieces and finally decided on a $1,000 bong. I bet when the ladies come over to Brosnan’s pad he fixes them up a drink, shaken, not stirred, and then promptly whips out his premium bong for some high class toking.

Woody Harrelson, most famous for his role on the television show Cheers, not only smokes but has even helped produce a fine documentary on cannabis simply entitled “Grass.” He was also quoted as saying: “I do smoke, but I don’t go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It’s about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don’t hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.” Amen Woody, amen.

Steven King, a best selling author of numerous books, has had his fair share of the herb and has quite a progressive viewpoint on the matter: “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses…”

Bill Murray was expelled from a pre-med program at Regis college for none other than toking marijuana. He most likely had one too many puffs when accepting his role in Groundhog’s Day. Or maybe not enough? The world may never know.

Montel Williams, host of the popular daytime talk show, Montel, uses marijuana to combat the extreme pain that comes with MS. He dedicated a whole show to why medical marijuana should be made legal for anyone who needs it. It’s a very powerful episode that would be near impossible to argue with and I highly suggest searching for it online and showing it to anyone and everyone.

Bill Maher, host of the popular political debate show Real Time with Bill Maher, not only uses but is on the advisory board of NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws). He regularly references his marijuana use on his show and echoed this line at a NORML conference in 2002, “I’m getting tired of being treated like a criminal or a second class citizen by people who through their preference for liquor or pills for mood alteration show not a superiority of taste but an inferiority.” You just have to admire a man who makes as much sense as Maher.

Two of the best jazz drummers of all-time, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, both took part in smoking the herb. They were each arrested for the petty “crime” of possession. While we’re on the topic of jazz, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis were two extremely popular jazz musicians who used marijuana regularly. It’s probably safe to say that 90% or more of jazz musicians used marijuana at one time or another.

Jack Black, frontman of Tenacious D and star of several films, including the upcoming Tenacious D movie, was voted pot smoker of the year by High Times magazine. I imagine he needed quite a bit of green to get through the filming of The School of Rock.

An obvious and avid user, Steve-O, of Jackass and Wildboyz fame, has went to great lengths for his love of mary jane. He smuggled some white widow across the border by putting a nug in a condom and swallowing it, risking suffocation and then risking it getting stuck inside of him. This is all documented in his third and craziest video, Out On Bail.

Other celebs who have smoked the chronic:
Dan Aykroyd
Candy Barr
John Belushi
Lewis Black
Michael Bloomberg
Paul Bowles
Bill Bradley
Richard Branson
Pierce Brosnan
Christopher Buckley
Lord Buckley
William F. Buckley
Bush Family
Aaron Carter
Jack Carter
Fidel Castro
Neal Cassady
Bing Crosby
David Crosby
Macaulay Culkin
Matt Damon
Rodney Dangerfield
Bob Denver
John Denver
Alexandre Dumas
Melissa Etheridge
Walker Evans
Richard Feynman
Ford family
Errol Flynn
Morgan Freeman
Art Garfunkel
Ringo Garza
Will Geer
Gilberto Gil
Newt Gingrich
Alan Ginsberg
Jackie Gleason
Larry Hagman
Gary Hall
Woody Harrelson
Ed Harris
John Hay
Daryl Hannah
Paris Hilton
David Hockney
Whitney Houston
Victor Hugo
Chrissie Hynde
Jefferson Airplane
John F. Kennedy
John Kerry Queen Latifah
Heath Ledger
Phil Lesh
John Lennon
Lindsay Lohan
Jack London
Courtney Love
Norman Mailer
Bob Marley
Groucho Marx
Matthew McConaughey
Margaret Mead
Mezz Mezzrow
Paul McCartney
Frances McDormand
George Michael
John Stuart Mill
Robert Mitchum
Randy Moss
Willie Nelson
Jack Nicholson
Peggy Noonan
M. Scott Peck
Pablo Picasso
Popeye the Sailorman
Francois Rabelais
Ross Rebagliati
Arthur Rimbaud
Diego Rivera
Carl Sagan
Susan Sarandon
Arnold Schwarzenegger
William Shakespeare
Donna Shalala
Sarah Silverman
Robert Smith
Aaron Sorkin
Sting
Oliver Stone
Charlize Theron
Margaret Trudeau
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
John Trudell
Ted Turner
Oliver Twist
Queen Victoria
Pancho Villa
Prince Harry
Ricky Williams
William Butler Yeats