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1. Robert Mitchum, To Cool To Care
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Robert Mitchum1948 - "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."

Robert Mitchum in his plea for probation stemming from marijuana possession charges

The Hollywood dope scene in the 1940s was hardly preoccupied with pot, booze and pills being more attractive to gregarious starlets wishing to promote an aura of self-confidence. But the southern Californian location of Los Angeles meant that Mexican marijuana was readily available and, if the elite weren't entranced by the herb's navel-gazing properties, the more creative types lower down on the pecking order - the writers and actors and musicians who mingled at bohemian tinseltown parties - were quite happy to get high together.

zaterdag, 13 december 2008 | 1426 Hit(s) | (2 votes) | Read more...

2. Shirley MacLaine Used Marijuana With Robert Mitchum
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In her memoir, Sage-ing While Age-ing, 73-year-old actress Shirley MacLaine says she has led a drug-free existence with two exceptions: she says she smoked marijuana once and chowed down on cannabis-laced "bang brownies" served to her by late actor Robert Mitchum.

She also came close to doing cocaine once -- when she accidentally put a teaspoon of the white powder into her coffee cup after a dinner party.

maandag, 29 oktober 2007 | 1027 Hit(s) | (0 vote)