"Celebrities Like Cannabis"

30 Celebrities from all around the world, talk about, their first experience of Cannabis via Cigarettes, Food & Bhongs. They consist of outstanding writers, actors, comics, singers, activists, athletes, musicians, politicians, lawyers, smugglers and an English, 66-year-old Grandma who cooks and eats it.

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Howard Marks "Mr Nice"
Smuggler/Author
Oxford, England l964

Denys (a fellow Balliol College undergraduate) had brought with him some marijuana in the form of Kif from Morocco. Up to that point I had heard the odd whisper of drugs being taken at the university and was aware that marijuana was popular with British West Indian communities, jazz enthusiasts, American beatniks and the modern intellectual wave of angry young men. I had no idea of marijuana’s effects, however, and with a great deal of enthusiastic interest, I accepted the joint that Denys offered and took my first few puffs.

The effects were surprisingly mild but quite long lasting. After a couple of minutes, I started having a sensation akin to butterflies in the stomach but without the customary feelings of trepidation. This led to a desire to laugh followed by my interpreting most of the conversation as amusing enough for me to do so. I then became acutely aware of the music that was being played. James Brown’s "Please, Please, Please," and of the aesthetic qualities of my immediate environment.

Each of these experiences was completely new to me and highly enjoyable. My next sensation was of the slowing-down of time. Finally I became hungry, as did everyone else, and invaded the premises of what later became the Sorbonne French restaurant, but was then the Moti Mahal, on a street appropriately named the High.

This was my first experience of Indian food, and I became addicted to it for life.