The movie \u201cAlmost Famous,\u201d about a fledgling rock critic on tour with a band in the 1970s, has a scene where a roadie takes out a joint to share. \u201cI know this is good,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s from Crosby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catching up with 77-year-old David Crosby in Monterey, California on his current nationwide tour<\/a>, I asked him how, of all the rock-and-roll stoners of his day, he became known as the guy with the best weed.<\/p>\n \u201cI was the first one of the musicians I knew in LA to connect up with sinsemilla, out of Mexico,\u201d Crosby replied as his still-impish eyes twinkled. \u201cSomeone down there knew if you removed the males, you get much stronger pot. And it was a revolution, because we had crap pot up until then. I had it before anyone else had it, so I\u2026. acquired a reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n Crosby is now putting his reputation on the line, both by establishing an international brand of cannabis called \u201cThe Mighty Croz<\/a>\u201d and by joining the advisory board of NORML,<\/a> the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Croz, whose singing is as strong and beautiful as ever, lent his voice to robocalls and ads in the recent effort to legalize recreational pot in North Dakota.<\/p>\n Crosby began his musical career with The Byrds in 1964 and formed the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968. Joined later (at times) by Neil Young, the group was wildly successful and also politically outspoken. In 1982, Crosby was convicted of possessing heroin and cocaine, plus weapons charges, that put him in a Texas prison for nine months. He later went sober and published two autobiographies, as well as writing\u00a0\u201cStand and Be Counted\u201d (Harper San Francisco, 2000), documenting his participation in many of the landmark events of the 1960s and beyond.<\/p>\n He writes in that book, \u201cI still believe we were right about acid and we were right about pot. They did blow us loose from the past and they did give us a new perspective, a way of setting ourselves apart from the rest of straight society\u2026 Unfortunately, marijuana was illegal and you had to go to illegal people to get it. Those people would then hand you a gram of cocaine and say, \u2018If you think that\u2019s fun, try this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n I asked Crosby how he came back to using cannabis.<\/p>\n \u201cI did fourteen and a half years absolutely sober,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re addicted to something \u2014 alcohol, cigarettes, heroin, cocaine \u2014 when you quit you have slip dreams. You wake up thinking that you\u2019re doing that awful thing again. When those dreams stop, then it\u2019s no longer snapping against your heels. And after a few years of feeling no pressure at all, I realized I probably could smoke pot again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t smoke it in the daytime,\u201d Crosby continued. \u201cIn particular I don\u2019t use it before I play; I do it after. I have a lot more fun if I do it before I play, but I think I do better if I work straight and get loaded afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n For him, cannabis is best combined with songwriting.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I do every night, after dinner with my family, I go into the bedroom and I build a fire,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cAnd then I vape some buds and take a guitar off the wall and play. Stoned. And it\u2019s just the right thing for guitar: you get hung up and you play until your fingers hurt. I do that all the time. That\u2019s how I write music.\u201d<\/p>\n And what was his motivation for joining the NORML board?<\/p>\n \u201cLaws against marijuana should change because it\u2019s correct to change them,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cIt\u2019s an innocent substance and it does no harm at all. We drive slow and eat ice cream, that\u2019s our big crime. We don\u2019t rob stores, we don\u2019t go out and rape and pillage. I\u2019ve been in prison, I know what it\u2019s like. And to be in there because you smoked or sold some flowers, it\u2019s a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n Crosby predicted that in the coming years arrests for marijuana will slow.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see people going to jail for pot for anything,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s going to define the situation are the numbers. The states are looking at marijuana as a huge state-controlled tax income. They have money for schools, roads and hospitals \u2014 lots of it. Game over! It\u2019s going to be legal everywhere. Michigan<\/a> just went for it. The money will decide it.\u201d<\/p>\n When it comes to his own cannabis business, Crosby\u2019s business partner Steven Sponder, co-founder of The Mighty Croz brand, said they are still searching for partnerships.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are being very selective about who we decide to partner with, and we expect to make a decision in the next few months,\u201d Sponder said. \u201cQuality and the ability to serve David\u2019s fans in various states and countries is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong>\u00a0do you have a favorite celebrity strain?<\/p>\n The post David Crosby Lends His Voice to Marijuana<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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