(This image of a marijuana bud is from the website called ilovegrowingmarijuana.com.)The Marijuana Policy Project has released its annual list of the 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users -- a list that they release about this time every year. Some of the people on this list have used the gentle herb in the past but no longer use it, and others on the list may still smoke it. But they all have one thing in common -- marijuana did not ruin their lives (as those who are invested in maintaining the prohibition would like for us to believe).
I'm just going to list the top twenty here. If you would like to see the whole list, you can go to the MPP website.
1. President Barack Obama
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. President Bill Clinton
4. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
5. Stephen Colbert
6. Jon Stewart
7. Jay-Z
8. Secretary of State John Kerry
9. George Soros
10. Bill Maher
11. Bill Gates
12. President George W. Bush
13. Governor Andrew Cuomo
14. Senator Rand Paul
15. Dr. Sanjay Gupta
16. Lebron James
17. Rush Limbaugh
18. George Clooney
19. Mayor Michael Bloomberg
20. Lady Gaga
