16 February 2012

Sir Paul McCartney "gives up cannabis"

As reported in The Telegraph (and everywhere else):
The former Beatle said it was finally time to give up smoking the drug due to a “sense of responsibility” in caring for his daughter. 
“I smoked my share. When you’re bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you’re lucky, at some point,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. “Enough’s enough – you just don’t seem to think it’s necessary.”..

Bob Dylan introduced Sir Paul to marijuana in the mid-Sixties after discovering the Beatle was a “pot virgin”. Following the introduction, Sir Paul became a prolific drug user – more so than fellow band member John Lennon – experimenting with heroin, LSD and cocaine.  
Now let's see if he can make something of himself and do something productive in his life.

2 comments:

  1. "I don't actually smoke the stuff these days," he told Uncut. "It's something I've kind of grown out of."
    Paul McCartney- 2004.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3769511.stm

    Anyway - why this child and not the others? Not that I'm bothered either way - I don't smoke it and haven't for thirty years or so, but I know capable parents who do and crap parents who don't - and vice versa.

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  2. Yeah, hopefully he can turn himself around given his new found sense of responsibility!

    I'm rooting for you, Paul!

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