After Elizabeth Taylor died, I googled and found a biography
of her that said
she smoked pot with Christopher Lawford. It’s interesting now
because Lawford has joined with Kennedy cousin Patrick to start an organization
aimed at forcing marijuana users into treatment. That the Kennedys would be
considered expert on such a topic is, of course, laughable and lamentable.
Watch a video of Liz smoking.
For my
Black Herstory posting last month, I decided to
google Josephine Baker and sure enough, found evidence that she too had
imbibed. (Baker is one of the women featured on the US government's
Women's History Month website.)
Sadly, I added
Teresa McGovern, daughter of the late Senator
George McGovern, whose pot bust at the age of 18 helped turn her short life
into a tragic one. Also, I found evidence that
Lucille Armstrong, wife of
trumpeter and mj enthusiast Louis Armstrong, was busted for carrying pot in 1954.
Lady Gaga smoked an enormous joint onstage, and she and
Rhianna, who puffed pot in Hawaii and Tweets about it often, both dressed as
“marijuana” on Halloween 2012. But it's
Fiona Apple who's facing hashish charges in Texas.
Lily Tomlin “outed” herself as a pot smoker on the cover of
Culture magazine. Joan Rivers toked up on her reality show saying,
back in the day she smoked it with Betty White, George Carlin, Woody Allen and Bill Cosby.
Roseanne Barr appeared at Oaksterdam University while campaigning for President on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket.
Jane Fonda was caught puffing at a post-Oscar party in 2012.
Heather Donahue of The Blair Witch
Project released a book about growing medical marijuana in Northern California.
Miss USA 2011
Alyssa Campanella said she supports medical marijuana; so does the
reigning
Miss Universe (although both say they're against recreational use).
In fiction, secretary-turned-copywriter
Peggy Olson puffed
pot on
Mad Men. Woody Allen’s
Midnight in Paris depicted Alice B. Toklas and
(possibly) Beatrice Hastings.
Patti Smith’s award winning book
Just Kids describes how she saw pot more as an aid to her work than a social drug.
A video of
Whoopi Goldberg surfaced in which she admits she
was high when she picket up her Oscar for “Ghost.” Capping it off is
Jennifer Lawrence, this year’s Oscar-winning Best Actress who, days later, was
photographed smoking pot in Hawaii.
