Morgan Freeman On Marijuana

(Photo of Morgan Freeman is from flickeringmyth.com.)

The following quotes from Morgan Freeman are from an interview at The Daily Beast with Marlow Stern:

 “They used to say, ‘You smoke that stuff, boy, you get hooked!' 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.”

“Marijuana has many useful uses. 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? 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,” (referencing the less marijuana-friendly 30th-anniversary event, which resulted in riots and arrests).