Sinead O'Connor, who passed away on July 26, used marijuana since she was a teenager. "If you smoke a joint you're much clearer, you realize what your thoughts are," the singer once said. "I smoke dope quite a bit and that really does help."
"I just enjoy the plant. It's as simple as that," Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant said in an interview on July 25. He was referring to marijuana, which the hoopster says "everyone does" in the NBA.
Crooner Tony Bennett, who passed away on July 21, preferred pot. He suffered a cocaine overdose in the late '70s and felt particularly bad when Whitney Houston succumbed to drugs in 2012. "Let's legalize drugs," the smooth singer pled.
Gigi Hadid and her friend Leah McCarthy got off easy with fines of $1,000 after Customs agents at Owen Roberts International Airport on Grand Cayman found flower and paraphernalia in their luggage on July 10. Hadid said it was legal medical cannabis.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is a fan of mushrooms. During her recent visit to China, she was spotted eating at a restaurant in Yunnan that specializes in foraged fungi. Did Pres. Biden's cabinet member feel the effects of the mushroom high?
In 1993, Cypress Hill's second album, "Black Sunday," peaked at No. 1, had a Top 20 single, earned two Grammy nominations and sold more than four million copies. To commemorate that achievement, Sony Legacy has released the "Black Sunday 30th Anniversary Edition."
The 2023 Emmy Awards nominations were announced on July 12 in Hollywood. Here are our fave nominees.
Leslie Van Houten was one of Charles Manson's hippie chicks who became part of his "Family" in the late '60s. Now she's free from prison on parole 54 years after participating in the shocking Los Angeles murders that left seven people dead in 1969.
