James Garner supported legalization of cannabis

“I smoked marijuana for 50 years. I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol should be illegal. But, good luck with that.”

Gotta love someone who says that. Mahalo Raindog~

there's a link to some of his bio at the link in the OP. Interesting tidbits.

way back in the early part of the century and drinking.. but fortunately I don't have any health problems that would be alleviated from MJ. I definitely think it should be legal all over the country like my home state and town of Denver Colorado. And, who knows.. one of these days.. ?

Thanks for the thread, RainDog.

too bad he didn't accomplish anything during the 50 years he smoked pot...

now! I had no idea, either that he smoked pot.

I posted here, in the past, that Louis Armstrong said he smoked pot for the majority of his life because it helped him cope with racist society. There's that smooth - obviously Armstrong had the same response to marijuana that Garner did - I say this b/c not everyone does have the same response, but everyone I know has had that same response... smooth.

Carl Sagan, of course, was also a big supporter of cannabis legalization and assumed it would be legal in his lifetime. But he was an optimist.

remembered things that I had forgotten about the man until after his passing, such as these two prescient episodes from the Rockford Files on this thread by Ptah concerning Grand Juries vs the 5th Amendment and particularly mass surveillance in 1978 two year before Reagan came to power and passed Executive Order 12333.





On top of all that he was a Korean War Veteran with two Purple Hearts, one of them from "friendly fire" (personally I think that should be called fucked up fire or WTF fire) during combat and he attended Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

...and, yeah, reading some of his bio at the link was interesting to me, too.

Stacy Keach in the Cheech and Chong movie(UP in Smoke"?).. after having inadvertently smoked pot.. and when it hits him he says "I have a feeling I'm about to go on the biggest pig out of my life!"..

That's how I remember it anyway.