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Paul McCartney Was Busted Several Times Throughout The 70īs And 80īs
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maandag, 13 december 2004
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 Paul McCartney - Beatle and long time pro-pot advocate was busted several times throughout the 60's, 70's and 80's.
McCartney: "I support decriminalization. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them criminal is wrong."
"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."
1984 saw Paul speaking his words of wisdom after being busted with Linda for cannabis possesion in Barbados. They were fined the equivalent of $200 each.
In 1980, Paul McCartney was released from a Tokyo jail after being held for more than a week. He had been arrested when nearly half a pound of marijuana was found in his luggage during a Band on the Run concert tour in 1980. "I think we could decrimalize marijuana, and I'd like to see a really unbised medical report on it," he said after being deported from Japan.
He was once arrested in 1972, for growing it.
Paul McCartney helped pay for a 1967 advertisement in the London Times that called for legalization of pot possession, release of all prisoners on possession charges and government research into marijuana's medical uses.
John Lennon told a Paris newspaper that their band smoked pot at Buckingham Palace before being decorated by the queen in 1965.
Read more how the Beatles and Bob Dylan were being introduced to Marijuana
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