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Succesful Stoners With Influence

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Public perception of cannabis is changing, it’s time to identify people who have used cannabis and achieved high levels of success or influence.

This list of stoners is based on “power to influence cultural and social attitudes, political clout, individual wealth, and a person’s media profile” – not just on popularity or support for marijuana policy reform.

For more public endorsements of cannabis, check out our list of influential people who actively support decriminalization.

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Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high? – The Daily Show
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Bill Gates, Microsoft

As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice… – Bill Gates Biography
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Lebron James, NBA Superstar

James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron. – ESPN
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George Clooney, Actor

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there. – The Weed Blog
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David Letterman, Late Show

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night. – Cannabis Culture
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Robert Downey Jr, Actor

Robert Downey Jr. said he started smoking weed at age 8. – NBC New York
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Hugh Hefner, Playboy

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. – Drug Policy
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Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot…and that’s how I got to know the people ‘half in’ the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes. – SF Chronicle
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Rihanna, Singer

Kush rolled, glass full… I prefer the better things! – Daily Mail
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Johnny Depp, Actor

I’m not a great pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol. – Playboy
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Oliver Stone, Director

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast. – The Raw Story
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Bill Maher, Real Time

Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana… About 50,000 times. – Youtube
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Morgan Freeman, Actor

Never give up the ganja. – The Guardian
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Angelina Jolie, Actress

The one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly – I hate feeling like that. – Metro
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Snopp Dogg, Rapper

It makes me feel the way I need to feel. – Esquire
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Matt Damon, Actor

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and step-father. – Weed Quotes
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Barack Obama, President

When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point. – Youtube

> Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users | Marijuana Policy Project

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The Marijuana Majority, Quotes From Public Supporters of Decriminalization

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Marijuana Majority exists to help more people understand the simple fact that supporting commonsense solutions like regulating marijuana sales and ending marijuana arrests are mainstream positions and that there’s no reason those who support reform should be afraid to say so.

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Morgan Freeman, Academy Award-Winning Actor

It’s just the stupidest law possible… You’re just making criminals out of people who aren’t engaged in criminal activity. And we’re spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can’t win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It’s stupid – The Daily Beast
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Danny Devito, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Even if one doesn’t smoke pot one has to see the benefits of decriminalising it! – Twitter
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Joe Rogan, Comedian & UFC Commentator

People say, ‘Well you can abuse marijuana’… You can abuse cheeseburgers too, you don’t go around closing Burger King… If people…commit crimes while on those drugs they should in fact be punished, but you can’t punish someone for something that hurts no one. – YouTube
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Rosario Dawson, Actress

I’m for the legalization of marijuana, absolutely… We’ve got a lot of things that we need to be putting our focus and attention on and it’d be really great to take it off of joints. – CNN
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Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist

Is it rational to forbid patients who are dying from taking marijuana as a palliative to permit them to gain body weight and to get some food down?… That’s a highly irrational official government position – YouTube
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Elijah Wood, Actor Wilfred

The whole notion that marijuana is illegal is past the point of ridiculousness... To be honest, I’m not really much of a pot smoker… But I’ve always been an advocate. I just feel it should be decriminalized. – High Times
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Quentin Tarantino, Filmmaker

It’s slavery… All the reasons that they have for keeping this going are the all same reasons they had for keeping slavery going after the whole world had pretty much decided that it was immoral. It’s an industry. – George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
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Bill Maher, Comedian & TV Host

It’s like gay marriage. These things that we believe are third rails, and then somebody has the guts to challenge it and they find out, ‘Wow, the American people actually are ahead of us. – HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher
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Seth Rogen, Actor

There are probably 400 people getting murdered at this second, and these two cops are taking an hour to write up my court summons for smoking a joint... That just seemed so…ridiculous to me. – Playboy
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Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California

These [recreational marijuana users] are incredibly upstanding citizens: Leaders in our community, and exceptional people. Increasingly, people are willing to share how they use it and not be ashamed of it… These laws just don’t make sense anymore. It’s time for politicians to come out of the closet on this. – New York Times
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Brad Pitt, Actor

The drug war is actually being used to hold a portion of our society down... It’s criminal in itself… The only way to end the war on drugs is to take the profit out of it… We have to look at the what-if-everything-was-legal and people were allowed to make their own choices. – Huffington Post
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Bill Clinton, 42nd President

I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment. – Rolling Stone
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Snoop Dogg, Rapper

Go to Amsterdam where it is legal and you see that the crime rate is nonexistent. There are people riding on bicycles being happy and it’s because of the environment that’s provided by the legalization of marijuana. Hollywood Reporter
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Jack Nicholson, Academy Award-Winning Actor

The illicit drug market funds terrorism and — this is a huge problem in America — fuels the foreign gangs. More than 85 percent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offenses. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalization. – Daily Mail
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David Duchovny, Actor

I’m all for legalization. I don’t think it would lead to any more use. Everybody I know, if they want to, has smoked pot. The fact that it’s illegal doesn’t stop anybody I know, so why not allow everybody to benefit from it? It would be billions of dollars of tax revenue. – Shockya.com

 

> Support Marijuana Reform | Marijuana Majority

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Zach Galifianakis Smokes a Joint on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher (Video)

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To celebrate the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, here is a clip from two years ago when Zach Galifianakis smoked a joint on Bill Maher’s show to express his support for California’s Prop 19.

Maher, a longtime supporter of marijuana law reform, welcomed Galifianakis to his talk show, where a panel discussion ensued about California’s upcoming Proposition 19 vote on whether to legalize, tax and regulate cannabis.

“It’s a tricky thing politically to jump on that bandwagon [and vote for the legalization of marijuana] because I think that maybe people still see it as taboo,” Galifianakis, the star of Hangover, said.

Pulling a joint and lighter from his coat pocket, Galifianakis fired up and started puffing, pausing to allow conservative reporter and fellow guest Margaret Hoover to sniff the joint, confirming it was the real thing.

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Bill Maher On Creativity and Psychedelics (Video)

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Adderall is the drug of choice these days on campus. Oh, what fun. I don’t know what I would enjoy more, the extremely focused parties or the highly detail oriented sex. But here’s the thing, when Steve Jobs was young, the drug of choice was acid and Jobs told his biographer that dropping acid as a young man was one of the best things he ever did because when he took it with his girlfriend, the wheat field started playing Bach. Which is pretty unbelievable – a computer nerd had a girlfriend?

Now, maybe there’s not a connection between LSD and genius, but it’s something no great American ever said about a Kit-Kat bar. If it weren’t for acid, you might not have an iPod and you definitely wouldn’t have some of the best music in your iPod. Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA while on acid. The Beatles made “Sergeant Pepper” while on acid.

And it’s not just anecdotal. In a study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine last month, scientists found that a single dose of psilocybin, which is the drug in mushrooms, created a quote “long-term positive personality change in most patients.” People improved in the areas of sensitivity, imagination, and broad-minded tolerance of others. In pharmaceutical speak, psilocybin is known as an asshole inhibitor. And couldn’t we use a little more of that?