> I still have tapes of my band
>jamming when we were stoned out of our minds. At the time, we thought
>we rocked, but when we listened to the tape the next day we all realized
>we sucked.
Louis Armstrong didn't have that problem:
>SIMON: I do have to ask you about a devotion in the life of Louis
>Armstrong, marijuana? I guess from a fairly early age he probably
>had it every day of his life. He believed in it.
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>BERGREEN: Yes, he did. This is one of the more difficult things
>about him to understand. He always -- often said that he was old
>enough to remember when booze was illegal and pot was legal because
>of course he came of age in the Prohibition era in the 1920s. And
>the idea was -- and he was not wholly mistaken at that time -- that
>it was healthy. Well, it was healthier than toxic moonshine, which
>was making other jazz musicians sick and even killing them. And he
>felt that it relaxed him a lot. So even though he got into trouble
>with the law a few years later for possession of marijuana, he
>continued to use it in very heavy quantities, you know, three
>cigar-sized joints a day, at least, throughout his life. Now, this
>did have a long-term harmful effect. I think if you talk to a
>doctor, they'll tell you that that amount of heavy, chronic
>marijuana use will have a bad effect on your lungs, for starters,
>and Louis did indeed suffer lung problems in his last -- later
>years, and couldn't blow for a long period as a result.
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