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Cultivation and use of cannabis were generally outlawed in 1928. Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, in its original form, the plant or herb was classed as a class B drug, but was downgraded to a class C drug in January 2004.On May 7 2008, and against the advice of the government's own commissioned report, the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced the government’s intention to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug. In 2008, the UK government commissioned a study into the effects of the downgrading of cannabis from Class B to Class C. Subsequently British prime minister Gordon Brown announced his government would disregard the findings of the committee, which recommended that cannabis should remain a Class C substance. On 26 January 2009, Cannabis was reclassified as a Class B drug in the UK.



Robert Altman"I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day."(On the advisory board of NORML)
Jennifer Aniston"I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it". (Supposedly she and Brad Pitt smoked up together prior to meeting with Bill Clinton.)
Louis Armstrong"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crapÉit's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an assistant - a friend."
Jack BlackActor and singer for the band "Tenacious D".Voted pot smoker of the year by High Times magazine. Jack will be playing a set at an upcoming NORML conference.
Michael Bloomberg (NY mayor)When asked if he ever smoked pot, he replied, "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it!"
Tom Brokaw"There was this early benign attitude, certainly toward marijuana, and then even toward cocaine later on, which was not an area for me. I didn't go there. But you know, marijuana was being passed around at very establishment cocktails parties like an after-dinner drink of some kind."
James Brown
George W. BushIn the taped recordings of a conversation, Bush explained his refusal to answer questions about whether he had used marijuana at some time in his past. "I wouldn’t answer the marijuana questions," Bush says. "You know why? Because I don’t want some little kid doing what I tried." When reminded that the latter had publicly denied using cocaine, Bush replied, "I haven't denied anything."
Johnny CashA good friend of Willie Nelson's. Cash made headlines when he refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact: "On the Sunday morning sidewalks / Wishin', Lord, that I was stoned."
Tommy ChongBorn in Edmonton, Alberta. Cheech Marin was a draft dodger living in Vancouver when he first met Chong. Check out his action figure.Chong was recently sent to jail for 9 months for selling waterpipes over the internet.
Winston Churchill
Bill Clinton"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."
Francis Ford Coppola
Bob DenverIn 1998 Gilligan received probation after signing for a package containing 30 grams of pot. It turns out that he was buying pot through the mail from his co-star Dawn Wells (Mary Anne).
John Denver
Jimmy Dorsey
Bob DylanIntroduced the Beatles to wacky tobaccy in 1964.
Richard Feynman (scientist)Nobel Prize Laureate physicist, founder of quantum electrodynamics.
Carrie Fisher
Jane FondaPerhaps her and Ted enjoy cannabis together?
Peter Fonda
Harrison Ford
James Franco"I don’t consider weed to be any worse than having a beer," says actor James Franco, who plays a marijuana dealer in the new film Pineapple Express.
Art Garfunkel"If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too... with my musicians... and my marijuana."
Newt GingrichSpeaker of the House. Smoker of the weed.Gingrich said he smoked pot while studying in the 1970s. To do so, Gingrich said, "was a sign that we were alive and in graduate school in that era."
Al GoreGore has maintained his marijuana usage was "infrequent and rare" and ended in 1972.
Larry Hagman
Woody Harrelson"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."
Whitney HoustonJanuary 2000: Hawaiian airport security guards searched Whitney's carry-on bag and found 15 grams of pot.
Chrissie Hynd"Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sir Mick Jagger
Thomas Jefferson
John F Kennedy
Steven King"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. . . ."
John Lennon


Bill Maher(On the advisory board of NORML)

Norman MailerOne's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness-the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Bob Marley"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960s, when I first start singing."

Linda McCartneyLinda made headlines as a result of an open fondness for marijuana. While being treated for breast cancer she smoked pot to ease the discomfort of chemotherapy.

Sir Paul McCartney"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude."

Matthew McConaughey
George Michael"...this time last year I was a complete and utter pothead. I know it's lunacy but the horrible truth is that the grass really helped me. It got me through making [my album] Older. I was under more stress than I'd ever been. This [album] had to amount to something substantial to justify the wait. And grass really helped me with the lyrics. I'd know there was something I really wanted to say but I wouldn't know how to say it, so I'd have a few drags and stand behind the mike and in a few minutes it'd be there. It's bad because I don't want to smoke but I can't see myself giving grass up as a writer." [source]

Robert Mitchum"The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous or quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity."

Bill Murray

Friedrich Nietzscheused cannabis as medicine

Willie Nelson"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"(On the advisory board of NORML) Sept.17, 2006: Wille Nelson cited for marijuana possession

Jack Nicholson"My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system."

Conan O'Brian

Sinead O'Connor

Luke Perry

Pablo Picasso

Brad PittSupposed he and Jennifer Aniston enjoyed smoking up together. Brad has been seen wearing pro-marijuana shirts. Looking for a pro-marijuana shirt?

Ross RebagliatiThis Canadian was almost stripped of his Gold Medal in Snowboarding after traces of marijuana were found in his system during post-race drug testing.

Keanu Reeves

Seth RogenDid Seth Rogen and James Franco really smoke a joint while presenting at the MTV Awards? Watch video

Carl Sagan"Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience."

William ShakespeareFragments of pipes unearthed near Shakespeare's garden showed traces of cocaine and cannabis. No direct evidence connecting the pipes to Shakespeare.

Paul Simon

Wesley SnipesHas been seen in Canabis Cafes.
Alan Sorkin
Sting
Oliver Stone
Margaret Trudeau
Pierre Elliot TrudeauPhoto of Trudeau trying a hooka pipe.
Ted TurnerA former anchorperson for CNN said that it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
Dionne WarwickWhitney Houston's Aunt... also caught with pot at an airport. Do you think they ever smoked a joint together? Maybe they did some hotboxing.
George Washington
Neil Young