The us’s proudest pothead has determined to hold up his joint.
Willie Nelson, the rustic song luminary whose title is nearly synonymous with lights up, mentioned in a contemporary interview that he has stopped smoking marijuana because of respiring problems.
“I’ve abused my lungs fairly just a little previously, so respiring is a bit more tricky at the moment and I should be cautious,” Nelson, 86, advised the San Antonio tv station KSAT.
“I do not smoke anymore — take higher care of myself,” mentioned the Grammy-winning crooner of “At the Highway Once more.”
Nelson is understood for his braids, bandanas and fondness for buds. He’s a distinguished recommend for the legalization of weed, co-chairing the advisory board of the Nationwide Group for the Reform of Marijuana Rules.
He’s additionally one in all a slew of celebrities at the back of a cannabis-themed trade project. Willie’s Reserve, “a top rate hashish way of life logo,” was once introduced in 2016 in partnership with a New York-based non-public fairness company.
Nelson has lengthy touted what he sees because the scientific advantages of pot, telling Rolling Stone this yr that he believes he’s nonetheless alive as of late because of years of smoking marijuana.
“I wouldn’t be alive. It stored my lifestyles, in point of fact. I wouldn’t have lived 85 years if I’d have saved consuming and smoking like I used to be when I used to be 30, 40 years previous. I feel that weed saved me from in need of to kill other people,” Nelson advised the mag, including that it “almost certainly saved numerous other people from in need of to kill me, too — available in the market under the influence of alcohol, operating round.”
Within the interview with KSAT, Nelson — who has battled pneumonia and emphysema over time — looked as if it would dismiss rumors and hypothesis about his well being.
“I don’t give a [expletive]. I’m right here, I’m happy to be right here.”
