Joss Stone recently told Britain’s Star magazine she enjoys smoking pot, but some anti-drug advocates feel the singer should shut up.
British singer Joss Stone regularly smokes marijuana and doesn’t see the harm.
“I smoke weed, but I don’t think it’s really a drug,” she said. “It’s more an herb. I don’t regret saying that at all. I think everyone smokes weed and people who say they don’t are lying! Weed has been given this evil stamp, but how is it dangerous?”
Bill Maher, joking about pot, once warned his audience: “It makes you eat cookie dough.”
But Stone’s comments are catching fire from anti-drug advocates who say that regardless of how the 22-year-old regards drugs, she should remember her influence on her younger fans.
“She should consider the effects that her comments have on other people, especially young fans who look up to her,” said David Raynes, head of the National Drug Prevention Alliance. “People like Joss Stone should keep their mouths shut about things like this. It is terribly damaging and she clearly hasn’t considered the wider effects of the drug, although she clearly didn’t get to become a pop star because she is a student of social sciences. We already have a drug culture in the U.K. and she is simply adding to it.”
Fair enough? Possibly; Stone may mostly avoid flack for pot use, but her comments about harsher stuff could be taken wrong. “I don’t want to take all those horrible drugs,” she said. “Although some sound fun, so I might dabble now and then!”
Stone, only 22, is already well-known for being outspoken through kidding around. In 2005, she appeared in a Gap commercial and later saw that her buttocks had been replaced in some angles by a stand-in with more “ideal” curves. She hasn’t been tied to any plastic surgery, even today, but after seeing the commercial, she seemed to consider it.
“Apparently, I need a J-Lo bum or something,” Stone said during an interview. “Bring in the implants, girls.”
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