Look, we’ve all smoked pot/weed/mary jane/whatever you want to call it in our time. It happens. Getting stoned makes food taste better, music sound better, troubles melt away, etc. And then most of us sorta grow out of it and move on. Not Morgan Freeman, however – he wants to LEGALIZE IT! in a bad way, and recently decided to share his love of MJ in all its forms with The Daily Beast.
I ask him about his stance on the legalization of marijuana, since he’s a longtime user. “They used to say, ‘You smoke that stuff, boy, you get hooked!” says a chuckling Freeman. “My first wife got me into it many years ago. How do I take it? However it comes! I’ll eat it, drink it, smoke it, snort it! This movement is really a long time coming, and it’s getting legs—longer legs. 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 fucked.”
He pauses, and points to the glove-aid jutting out from his left suit sleeve. “Marijuana has many useful uses,” he says. “I have fibromyalgia pain in this arm, and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana. They’re talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they’ve discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, ‘Legalize it across the board!’”
“And what negative effects does it have?” Freeman continues. “Look at Woodstock 1969. They said, ‘We’re not going to bother them or say anything about smoking marijuana,’ and not one problem or fight. Then look at what happened in ’99,” he says, referencing the less marijuana-friendly 30th-anniversary event, which resulted in riots and arrests.
Now that’s someone that’s passionate about marijuana. It’s sort of hilarious and also, whatever, man. Morgan Freeman is 77 years old, he can do whatever the hell he wants and no one should say shit about it. Besides, it’s not like he’s some shitty burnout – you can hardly say he’s lazy/hasn’t accomplished anything.
Light up, Morgan. You do you.