Morgan Freeman Revealed Long-Time Marijuana Use

Morgan Freeman confirmed that he has been using marijuana for a long time now. He said that the manner in which he takes it is highly varied - he can eat it, drink it, smoke it or even snort it! It was his first wife who introduced weed to him many years ago, he noted.

Freeman was involved in a car accident seven years ago. He was then driving on a Mississippi highway when his 1997 Nissan Maxima skidded off the road and flipped over and over. He was medically evacuated to a hospital in Memphis, where doctors operated the nerves on his left arm for four hours. At present, his left arm has not been fully restored to its original power. Furthermore, he has to wear a compression glove to prevent blood stasis. To alleviate the unending pain caused by the said accident, Freeman said he uses marijuana.

“Marijuana has many useful uses,” Freeman told The Daily Beast. “I have fibromyalgia pain in this arm, and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana. They’re talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they’ve discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life.” For him, that alone is reason enough to legalise marijuana across the board.

Freeman cited the Woodstock event in 1969, where organisers said they would not care less about people smoking weed. The said event was held without a notable riot or fight, but when marijuana was again banned from the event in 1999, the 30th anniversary celebration event was filled with arrests and fights.

Marijuana is a commonly used illicit drug derived from dried parts of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. It contains substances than can modify human’s cognitive function, and is banned in many parts of the world. Although such a thing called “medical marijuana” had been established, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has neither approved nor recognised marijuana’s medicinal benefits.

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