Oliver Stone
(1946 )
American film director.
Oliver Stone "If it hadn't been for marijuana ..."
Oliver Stone first smoked grass in Vietnam during the war there. "If it hadn't been for marijuana and my black brothers in Vietnam," said Stone in a recent interview with Konch, "I don't think I'd be the same person, I don't think I'd be alive."
"That's why I did the bunker scene in Platoon, the bit with Elias and the shotgun reefer," added Stone. "Vietnamese grass is one of the most powerful, transforming herbs in the world. When I got high on that stuff, listening to Smokey, that's when I began to understand that life is sacred, that life has great vibrancy, which, in my case, was a perception I couldn't get out of."
In 1999 Stone got busted for driving with his blood-alcohol level over the limit, and cops had found hash in his car, along with muscle-relaxants and a few other pharmaceuticals.
The charges would be dropped if Stone entered a rehab program for "marijuana addiction," Stone cynically did the program and then merrily continued on his toking ways.
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