>Wow....never knew that about Louis Armstrong.
He was arrested for it once.
>Official disapproval of pot didn't become an
>issue for Louis Armstrong until one night in
>1931, when he was busted while blasting a joint
>between sets in the car park of the Cotton Club
>in Culver City, near Hollywood. The cops were
>pretty decent about it, being fans of the great
>man, but a rival band leader had dropped a
>nickel on Satchmo and they were obliged to take
>him downtown, where he spent nine days in the Los Angeles City Jail.
>
>The first genius of jazz faced a possible
>sentence of six months, but the judge turned out
>to be a fan, too, and gave him a suspended
>sentence. "I went to work that night – wailed
>just like nothing happened. What struck me funny
>though – I laughed real loud when several movie
>stars came up to the bandstand while we played a
>dance set and told me, when they heard about me
>getting caught with marijuana they thought Mary
>Warner was a chick. Woo, boy – that really fractured me!"
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