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How did April 20th become known as National Weed Day? For years it was claimed that “Four Twenty” was police dispatch code for “Marijuana Smoking in Progress” {in reality it signals ‘a homicide’}.Others believed it referred to the number of chemical compounds found in the substance {which is actually 315}, or even that it has some connection to Adolf Hitler’s 4/20/1889 birthday. But Hitler’s ’stash was above his lips.
So let Sleuth remove the haze from the holiday: The date traces back to five friends from San Rafael High in California, who began meeting up in 1971 at 4:20 in the afternoon “to score some free weed.” Calling themselves The Waldos, the group “used 420 as code” for their drug-related activities, so their parents and teachers wouldn’t know what they were talking about. The Waldos got to know the local band The Grateful Dead, who spread the ‘Wake ’n’ Bake message before and during their shows in the Bay Area.
“We’re talking about the day of celebration,” group leader Jerry Garcia later exulted, “the real time to get high, the grandmaster of all holidays: 4/20 or April 20th.” Taking a leaf from their book, model Brittany Wagoner became Miss High Times of 2010 before she would head to Colorado to help lead the charge for legalization there. “I had always smoked (above left),” Brittany admitted while listing her favorite activities as “meditating, hitting my bong and my Incredibowl and tending the plants in my garden.” Paints a pretty picture (above right).
Let’s be blunt: Sleuth is more turned on by tits and ass than hits and grass. So this is no half•baked salute to Sativa nor a re•hash of some other site’s herb blurb. Rather it’s Indica of the fact that we’ve managed to weedout the Top Twelve celebrities whose use of the juice is legendary…and who view ‘chronic’ as their tonic. So give your holiday a spark with ‘The Doobie Dozen’ of stoned foxes that’ll bowl you over!
1. RIHANNA – The Goddess of Ganja seemingly starts getting ripped at 4:20 in the morning…but sniffs between spliffs: “The world’s going to judge you no matter what you do, so live life the way you fucking want to.” That includes RiRi’s reported plans to launch “her very own line of weed called MaRihanna.”
2. PARIS HILTON – The High Heiress of Hollywood was arrested twice within two weeks in July 2010—first at a World Cup soccer match in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Stadium…where 1999 Playboy Playmate and fellow Fred Durst-dater {despite his Limp Bizkit} Jennifer Rovero took the rap and was deported…then Hilton was “caught carrying cannabis into the country when arriving by private jet to Corsica airport! The very next month, Las Vegas police announced they “followed the vapor trail and odor of marijuana to the Escalade” Paris and her boyfriend were riding in down the Strip. When “Miss Hilton pulled out a tube of lip balm,” a spokesman confirmed, “cocaine in a plastic bag came out of her purse.” Now that’s hot! Not.
3.MILEY CYRUS – “Hollywood is a coke town,” the former Hannah Montana huffs (and puffs), “but weed is so much better. I really don’t like coke. It’s like, what are you, from the ’90s? Eww.” Even detoxed druggie Kelly Osbourne calls her “Bob Miley” {in reference to the Rasta reefer mon}, and the ‘Wrecking Ball’ belter has a pit bull named Mary Jane. Marijuana “is the best drug on earth,” she told Rolling Stone in 9/13. “Weed won’t kill you.”
4. CAMERON DIAZ – “I’ve smoked since I was a teenager,” Diaz declares. “It balances me in the mad world of Hollywood.” “I was green even in high school!” the Charlie’s Angel announced in UsWeekly in January 2011. She went to Long Beach Polytechnic with rapper Snoop Dogg, the self-proclaimed ‘Master of Marijuana’ (below): “He was a year older than me,” Cameron confided. “I’m pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have!” Asked to confirm, Snoop smiled, “I might have sold her some of that white girl weed.” But let’s be realer: Is he still her dealer?
5. LADY GAGA – “I smoke a lot of pot when I write music,” says former Catholic school girl Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. “If I ever need some clarity, I smoke a joint.” Often, it seems clear, since Gaga announced in November 2013: “I have been addicted to it” recently. “I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco. I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely.” And scarcely keeping a ‘Poker Face’—notice how many of our top tokers seem to become jokers after inhaling the ‘Laughing Grass’?
6. KRISTEN STEWART– “Before she became a big movie star,” observes the Celeb Stoner site, “Kristen Stewart wore pot-leaf bikinis and was often photographed smoking pot”: “You can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is images of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe (above left),” sighs the sudden superstar of the Twilight films. “It was taken the day the movie came out (11/17/08). I was no one. I had just turned 18. The next day it was like I was a delinquent slimy idiot, whereas I’m kind of a weirdo, creative Valley Girl who smokes pot. Big deal.” Later, she told Conan O’Brien: “I just wanted something in my mouth.”
7. ADRIANNE CURRY – She “had problems with hard drugs as a teenager,” Celeb Stoner states, “and went to rehab”—recovering to win the first-ever America’s Next Top Model contest in 2003! Three years later, Curry married Christopher Knight—who had played bland middle son Peter on The Brady Bunch as a child actor—and won two Stony Awards as ‘Stonette of the Year’ for their reality show My Fair Brady. They divorced in 2011—three years after Adrianne hosted the Marijuana Policy Project’s party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. “As a semi-celeb, I am sick and tired of people coming down on me for being pro-marijuana,” she snaps. “I believe pot is so much safer than alcohol or anything else for that matter. I’m proud to be picked as the Top Celeb Stoner, even if there are countless celebs that could burn me under the table. They just don’t admit to it!”
8. MISCHA BARTON – The O.C. star whose character was killed in a car crash was pulled over in her SUV by West Hollywood police at 2:46 a.m. on 12/27/07 after “straddling two lanes of traffic” and then found to be in possession of pot. “Ms. Barton had smoked marijuana before she was stopped,” the cops confirmed. Mischa got three years’ probation in exchange for going to drug rehab…and called Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on 1/11/08 to vow: “I don’t know what to say about it, except that I’m not perfect and I just don’t ever intend to do something this stupid again.” Except 32 months later when she was spied ‘floating her boat’ on a yacht (above left): “Here’s Mischa Barton smoking up in St. Tropez yesterday,” The Superficial reported on 8/12/10, “and, listen, I’ve got absolutely nothing against pot. But can we maybe find someone else to be the celebrity poster child for marijuana use?”
9. MEGAN FOX – Raised “very strictly Pentecostal” in Tennessee, the Transformers beauty “later attended Catholic School for twelve years”—before transforming into an acknowledged pothead: “I’ve done drugs. I didn’t enjoy anything other than marijuana,” she declared (above left). “I can’t tell you how much bullshit I’ve been through because I openly say that I smoke weed. People look at it like it’s this crazy, hippie, fucked-up thing to do. And it’s not. I hope they legalize it.” Fox nips it in the buds while signing on to the cause (above right)!
10. SUSAN SARANDON – “We’ve legalized marijuana recently,” the soon-to-be-70 stoner stated in 2010. “Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.” It came to Colorado and Oregon in the Nov. 2012 election, after which the activist actress admitted that she likes “to get stoned before attending awards shows, except for the Oscars.” Asked by Andy Cohen on Bravo to “name one major Hollywood event that you showed up to stoned,” the Bull Durham doobie dame replied: “Only one??!”
11. SARAH SILVERMAN – She famously “takes a big bong hit backstage” in her 2005 documentary Jesus is Magic, and kicked off the second season of her eponymous Comedy Central series the next year with the skit “High, It’s Sarah.” Though her sister’s a rabbi in Jerusalem, Silverman’s an agnostic who’s built like a brick tit•house: “The world now has the munchies for Sarah Silverman,” the New York Daily News noted in 8/14 after the comely comedienne showed up with “liquid pot” in her vape pen on the Emmys red carpet. “I have to be honest,” the plain-spoken smoker says. “I have contempt for pretty much every drug other than pot. At a party, I have so much fun stoned, flitting about. I want to share my love of marijuana with the world!” And those mammaries are dope two.
12. CHARLIZE THERON – When she was just 15, the Oscar-winning Monster’s mother shot and killed her abusive father in front of the teen in South Africa, so it’s little wonder Charlize found herself “not fitting in” at school and “sought escape.” For the past two years she dated Sean Penn—the squint•essential stoner Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High—so it’s not exactly a shock that Theron was “caught smoking marijuana out of an apple bong at a party on July 10, 2001” (above left).
As National Weed Day dawns, let’s leave you with our No. 11 Topless Toker Sarah Silverman’s classic line: “It’s always 420 somewhere, right?” So it’s time to pause—lest we get some blow back—in our app•roach to showing smoking stars who are hardly ‘going to pot.’ Instead we hope they make your joint point and share your seed with those in need!
If you’re still not mellow enough, let’s make it a Bake•er’s Dozen, by adding Lucky Number 13, BARBARA STREISAND. “I’d take out a joint and light it, passing them around to the band,” the singer revealed in 1972. “I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. The best dope in the world. I never ran out.”
Sounds like the perfect ‘Stoney END’ to us!
