Joss Stone: I’m a Stoner, Drugs Are ‘Fun’
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 6:07 pm | By: Radical Russ
Joss Stone: “I smoke cannabis, but I don’t think it’s really a drug. It’s more of a herb. I don’t regret saying that at all.”
(Celebrity Health & Fitness) Joss Stone, the UK singer, who rose to fame at 16 because of her sultry, blues-inflected voice, is determined to live a rock star life. She openly admits she smokes marijuana and says she is likely to “dabble” in other illegal drugs because they look like “fun.” Is she high, or just crazy?
Stone said cannabis is less harmful than alcohol, and while she acknowledged that drugs are horrible, she said the also sound like “fun.”
“I might dabble now and then,” she declared. “I smoke cannabis, but I don’t think it’s really a drug. It’s more of a herb. I don’t regret saying that at all.”
First, if you haven’t heard Joss Stone sing, do yourself a favor and find one of her tracks. I first heard her when she was hitting at age 16 but it wasn’t until I saw her on Austin City Limits with Michael McDonald that I realized she wasn’t an African-American woman singing in an old black church’s choir since the age of 3 like I’d suspected, but she was some white teenage British girl!
Now I have even more reason to like her.
Plus, let’s not get too outraged over her saying that she might dabble with drugs. She’s telling one of the secrets about hard drugs they never tell you in school: they are fun. Why do you think people do them? There are people who have taken all manner of drugs, enjoyed their experiences, and didn’t become addicts. There are also people who have played Russian Roulette and not shot themselves in the skull. Drugs themselves aren’t bad; to quote Clapton, “it’s in the way that you use it”.
Some will read this and think I’m encouraging hard drug use. Nope. Neither encouraging or discouraging, I’m just telling it like it is. Drugs are fun… until they stop becoming fun anymore. That’s why I prefer cannabis. Nineteen years with Mary Jane and she’s still fun.
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I just went to itunes to check her out. The first song listed is four minutes and twenty seconds long. I felt compelled to download it.