Actor Woody Harrelson Anarchist and Marijuana Advocate

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Oscar-nominated actor Woody Harrelson is no stranger to controversy he has previously proclaimed in 2014 to be an anarchist.
Woody Harrelson has been featured in 89 different movies according to IMDB including – The Hunger Games series, Zombieland, the Simpsons and was featured on the 1980’s TV show sitcom “Cheers.”
He’s also been known to be a marijuana advocate for legalization for years and he was featured in the 2008, documentary Hempsters- Plant the seed speaking about industrial hemp alternative uses in society.

“I don’t believe in politics. I’m an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves”
~Woody Harrelson said.

Earlier this year Woody, wanted to open up a marijuana dispensary in Hawaii. In February, The Hawaii Department of Health released a list of 66 applicants who applied for it’s eight medical marijuana dispensary licenses and Harrelson was included in that list.
Applicants had to have $1 million cash just to be able to apply for the license, and they would have to pay an additional $100,000 for each dispensary they wanted to own throughout Hawaii.

Although, unfortunately for Harrelson he wasn’t chosen as one of the eight people to run a dispensary on the island state. That’s not stopping Harrelson though and he will continue to fight for legalization, he is a member on the advisory board of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws to change the laws nation wide regarding marijuana. The reason why legalization of marijuana is being fought is BIG pharma realizes that marijuana a plant is a huge threat to their business of selling pills to customers not people. As late comedian George Carlin said “the BIG pharmaceutical companies want you taking more and more drugs.” They don’t want you self medicating with herbal medicine such as marijuana. In Carlin’s skit he talks about how they start us off early with drugs conditioning us to take pills for our problems he says.

“It’s no accident that were drug oriented really the drug companies got us that way and they’d like to keep us that way, i mean that’s a simple thing,
they start you early with the oral habit the orange flavored aspirin for children, two in the mouth son, something wrong with your head remember that son head mouth, these are orange there will be other colors later on.”
~George Carlin

Already 25 states and the nation’s capital have legalized marijuana for medical purposes. That list includes – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C.
As a result of legalization of medical marijuana medicare prescriptions have dropped significantly exactly what the big pharmaceutical companies didn’t want to happen.

When more and more celebrities like Woody Harrelson stand up and speak about legalization of marijuana and that it’s not harmful maybe we will see legalization until then we will contiunue to lock up non violent marijuana smokers occupying spots that could be used for other violent offenders. We will leave you with Woody Harrelsons hilarious cameo on Saturday Night Live skit about New York Mayor Bill De Blasio’s new policy on marijuana allowing smokers to have 25 grams without being arrested.

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