{"id":6922,"date":"2016-10-28T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2202935"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:55:57","slug":"willie-nelson-the-outlaw-country-legend-reflects-on-his-personal-cannabis-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/willie-nelson-the-outlaw-country-legend-reflects-on-his-personal-cannabis-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson: The Outlaw Country legend reflects on his personal cannabis history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/willie-nelson-the-outlaw-country-legend-reflects-on-his-personal-cannabis-history\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><strong>By Ricardo Baca,<\/strong> <em>The Cannabist<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 Willie Nelson\u2019s relationship with cannabis is the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson is a legalization activist, a social warrior and now a ganjapreneur via his own<a href=\"http:\/\/williesreserve.com\/\"> Willie\u2019s Reserve<\/a> pot brand, and he still gets high regularly at age 83. But he\u2019s also not the most discerning of cannabis consumers. Does Nelson prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/tag\/sativa\/\">energetic sativa<\/a> marijuana strains to the more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/tag\/indica\/\">calming indicas<\/a>? \u201cThey\u2019re both good,\u201d he tells me. Does he prefer smoking weed to vaporizing cannabis oil? \u201cI enjoy smoking both ways,\u201d he says with an affable smile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2202940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline\" readability=\"51.5\"><img width=\"1650\" alt=\"Willie Nelson plays his guitar at Humphreys by the Bay in San Diego, California on October 19,2016. The country music legend discussed his history with marijuana, the time he stole and tried to smoke hemp and his new cannabis line, Willie's Reserve which is for sale in Colorado with Cannabist editor-in-chief Ricardo Baca on his bus before the show.\" class=\"lazyload \" data-src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willie-nelson-the-outlaw-country-legend-reflects-on-his-personal-cannabis-history\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willie-nelson-the-outlaw-country-legend-reflects-on-his-personal-cannabis-history 620w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.denverpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/thecannabist-co-potca6411135_vc_10242016a.jpg?w=780&#038;crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 780w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.denverpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/thecannabist-co-potca6411135_vc_10242016a.jpg?w=810&#038;crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 810w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.denverpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/thecannabist-co-potca6411135_vc_10242016a.jpg?w=630&#038;crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px 630w\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>Vince Chandler, The Denver Post<\/p>\n<p>Willie Nelson plays his guitar at Humphreys by the Bay in San Diego, California on October 19,2016. The country music legend discussed his history with marijuana, the time he stole and tried to smoke hemp and his new cannabis line, Willie\u2019s Reserve which is for sale in Colorado with Cannabist editor-in-chief Ricardo Baca on his bus before the show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nelson becomes more passionate when addressing how this plant is often grown, especially in unregulated environments: \u201cI don\u2019t like it when they put chemicals and pesticides in it; That makes it not much better than a regular old cigarette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting across the table from an eagle-eyed Nelson in his tour bus, I ask the country music legend if he considers himself to be a connoisseur of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess if anybody is, I would be,\u201d he says, letting out a grizzled laugh that virtually self-italicizes the last part of the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/10\/28\/willie-nelson-reflects-on-cannabis\/66254\/\">Read the full story at thecannabist.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson talks in detail with The Cannabist on his lifelong relationship with weed \u2014 his first time getting high (he didn&#8217;t), his willingness to sesh with Donald Trump and the actual intent behind &#8216;Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6825,2435,6813,77,6826,9,1495,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6827,2436,6818,2655,6828,33,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}