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To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	11/19/2006 8:41:17 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 10087

Looking at his music record, Carter would be the right time frame. Nelson doesn't seem to have been popular yet when JFK was in office. That that with whatever salt you wish .. After all I break for hallucinations.

To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	11/20/2006 5:10:49 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

wife loved willie. i remember waiting hours for him to show up at disney for a half hour show. wife was in wheelchair , kids were monsters.. willie shows up high as a kite. couldn't play a thing, almost fell over, broke a string on his instrument. i was pissed!

To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	11/20/2006 8:21:01 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

yep .. Carter. "Marijuana is like sex," Willie Nelson once declared. "If I don't do it every day, I get a headache." After playing a concert at the White House in 1978, Nelson accepted President Jimmy Carter's invitation to have him stay as a guest for the night. Before turning in, he wandered up to the roof and enjoyed "a big fat Austin torpedo." [Years later Nelson was asked whether he would sneak up onto the roof of the White House to fire up a joint if President George W. Bush invited him over. "It'd be my pleasure," Nelson declared, "but I doubt very seriously it'd be his intention to have me over!"]

To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	11/20/2006 9:58:56 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

This is great! <g> quote Nixon and Satchmo While vice-president, Nixon had a strange encounter with jazz great Louis Armstrong. Armstrong was on a "goodwill tour" for the US state department, and was waiting in the VIP Lounge of the Paris airport with his troupe of musicians. The story, as told by Armstrong's keyboard player Tommy Flanagan, is that Nixon walked into the lounge with his secret service guards, saw Armstrong, and immediately rushed up to him. Nixon effusively praised the pot-smoking jazz trumpeter, telling him he was "a national treasure... like the Statue of Liberty!" It turned out that they were all on the same plane, going to Moscow. Nixon claimed to be Armstrong's "biggest fan," and repeatedly asked if there was anything he could do for his musical hero. Armstrong said "Yeah! Would you mind carrying these?" and handed Nixon a few pieces out of their large pile of luggage. Nixon happily agreed, never knowing that he had proudly carried the whole band's pot stash right through Russian customs. end quote afroarticles.com (still looking up stuff on JFK and pot. Here is a google list I'm digging through: google.com )

To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	11/20/2006 10:24:46 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

This is very very interesting: veryimportantpotheads.com

To: mistermj who wrote (5033)	12/29/2010 12:04:16 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

I was actually convinced at one time that marijuana would be legalized by 1970, after Bob Dillon declared "Evry body must get stoned" and all the Nixon era anti-pot propaganda became such an embarrassment. Since then I have watched with wonder. Anti pot people (mostly right wingers) aren't so much against marijuana as they are the left wing baggage they believe is carried with it. It doesn't help that every initiative to legalize hemp or medical marijuana is obviously a wink at something broader. Everybody likes Willie Nelson.