The music icon says he believes it’s “addictive” and “leads to other drugs”
Elton John criticized the
legalization of marijuana, saying it’s “addictive” and impairs cognitive thinking.
“I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” John, who was named Icon of the Year by
Time Magazine, told the outlet. “And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally. Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
John, 77, looked back on his own experiences with drugs, saying that cocaine was his drug of choice after being introduced to the narcotic by former manager and lover John Reid. Following the death of his friend Ryan White, who
contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion, John
checked into Chicago’s Parkside Lutheran Hospital on July 29, 1990 — and has remained sober ever since.