George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou)
(1963)
English pop singer
"... I started smoking grass because is was wither that or
some kind medication which I didn't want to take," he says. "Then when you
couldn't get a joint you lit up a cigarette and that was that. It took about
three years for me to become a real smoker and in the last year-and-a-half
I've been trying desperately to give it up and have been failing miserably."
Dope smoking seems such an unlikely pursuit for a self-confessed control
freak. "I know," he laments, shaking his closely cropped head. "But, I tell
you, this time last year I was a complete and utter pothead. I know it's
lunacy but the horrible truth is that the grass really helped me.
