\u201cHey hey, my my\u201d is a Neil Young song, but by all indications, it is Willie Nelson who will never die.<\/p>\n
Nelson will turn 86 years old in April, but he has years ago eased into a sort of timelessness. The Texas-living godfather of outlaw country still tours constantly, still finds time to engage in politics, and still smokes copious amounts of cannabis. The sun rises, the sun sets, and the Willie Nelson tour bus heads to the next town, a trail of terpene-scented smoke in its wake.<\/p>\n
He is a country and popular music icon\u2013he\u2019s been recording and touring\u00a0since the 1950s, but\u00a0Willie Nelson<\/a>\u00a0is also a very real and very effective positive role model for marijuana use. Here is an enormously successful celebrity, from a not very progressive state, in what should be the twilight of his years, who still looks and sounds pretty good and appears to be in reasonably good health, who smokes weed constantly.<\/p>\n This is no accident. At least some of this longevity he attributes directly marijuana. (Since Nelson credits weed for helping him quit smoking cigarettes, even the most skeptical pro-prohibition doctor may find it hard to dispute that). Willie Nelson is a strong argument that all the Reefer Madness tropes that survive in our society are completely untrue. When (not if, friends, but\u00a0when<\/i>) Texas legalizes marijuana and elects a progressive to statewide office, maybe on the same day, Willie Nelson will have played a key role.<\/p>\n And, yes, fine, he is a stoner icon. Willie Nelson smokes weed just about everywhere and with everyone. He has out-smoked\u00a0Snoop Dogg<\/a>\u00a0and apparently got stoned on the roof of the White House. Look: Willie Nelson might not exist without marijuana. And without Willie Nelson, marijuana culture would be very different.<\/p>\n This is all to say that when Willie Nelson shows up at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California on Sunday, Dec. 16, to receive an \u201chonorary award\u201d at the\u00a0Emerald Cup<\/a>, it will be only right, fitting and proper. And when all future honorees at the\u00a0Emerald Cup<\/a>\u00a0receive an award, they will be handed the rechristened \u201cWillie Nelson Award.\u201d That, too, feels appropriate.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a great deal of respect and admiration for Willie, who is graciously allowing the cup to honor future individuals with an award that will remain in his name,\u201d said longtime Emerald Triangle cannabis cultivator and icon Tim Blake, who founded the Emerald Cup with some friends 15 years ago and has built it into arguably the biggest and most prestigious marijuana-awards show\/product exposition on the growing marijuana-show circuit. \u201cAn unwavering ability to stand true in his beliefs and refusal to accept society\u2019s rigid set of rules are only part of what makes Willie the perfect individual to be recognized as a hero to the cannabis world.\u201d<\/p>\n This also marks a transition for the Emerald Cup\u2019s award. Past honorees have generally come strictly from the marijuana world, like hemp advocate\u00a0Jack Herer<\/a>\u00a0or medical-marijuana pioneer\u00a0Dennis Peron<\/a>. Skeptics or rude cynics might sniff and wonder if the addition of Willie to these ranks doesn\u2019t represent a bend towards commercialism, as he has lent his image and acumen to two recreational marijuana brands. Maybe? The point is that marijuana legalization is an easier sell in red states, and some of the credit is due to Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n TELL US,\u00a0<\/b>are you a Willie Nelson fan?<\/p>\n The post Willie Nelson Might Be the Most Important Marijuana User\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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