John, Paul, George, and Ganja
All the beatles adventures: All arrested for weed several times, John Lennon deemed too stoned to be a threat to the US, and Paul MacCartney speaking in favor of legalization
John Lennon (1940 -1980) - British musician and frontman of ‘The Beatles’
Famed front man of The Beatles busted for hash in London in 1968. 5 years later almost deported from America because of the charges.
John Lennon was once deemed too drugged up to be a threat to national US security, secret files have revealed. The late Beatles legend, along with Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe and The Doors, was investigated by the FBI to see if he posed a communist threat.
However, newly released documents show an informant told agents that although Lennon “appears to be radically orientated”, he “does not give the impression he is a true revolutionist, since he is constantly under the influence of narcotics.”
Paul McCartney (1942) - British musician and frontman of ‘The Beatles’
“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.”
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. “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 for bringing nearly half a pound of marijuana into Tokyo for a Band on the Run concert tour in 1980. (John Lennon told a Paris newspaper that their band smoked pot at Buckingham Palace before being decorated by the queen in 1965.)
George Harrison (1943-2001) - British musician and guitarist in ‘The Beatles’
This Beatle was arrested in London in 1969 after the police raided his home and found 570 “grains” of pot.
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