Posted on 11/11/2013 1:54:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
U.S. pop star Lady Gaga admitted on radio's "Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show" she was addicted to marijuana for years. "I just want young kids to know that you actually can become addicted to it," she said on Monday's edition of the popular radio program.
"I have been addicted to it and it's ultimately related to anxiety-coping and it's a form of self medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco," she recalled. "I was living on a totally other psychedelic plain, numbing myself completely and, looking back, I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. I didn't know where the pain was coming from, so I was just in a lot of pain and really depressed all the time and not really sure why."
The 27-year-old singer said she got to a point where she knew she "had to stop" because she was jeopardizing her health.
"You can fight. I do put that pressure on myself; I have to be high to be creative. I need that, that's an error in my life that happened for over 10 years," she said. "Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live. I don't want them to torture themselves in the way I have. I want to show people that I will last past 27 and I will last longer, and so will you. I want to change this code in the atmosphere that in order to be remembered, I must die young. In order to be remembered as a legend, I must be dead first. This is unhealthy. The way that we [celebrities] are treated by the media, this is unhealthy. Not just me, I am just one of many people that are treated poorly by the media."
American pop stars simply reflect the habits, values and depredations of their audiences. Decadence sells.
There's a sucker born every minute.....and Gaga is proof.
“I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco”
I have never heard a dope smoker call it a cigarette - normally a doobie, blunt, joint or other names.
Mel
Judging from the quotes in the article, she’s still on something, even if it’s not MJ.
And not one FReeper to say: ‘Good for her!”
Odd.
If you can’t tell, I’m 100% anti marijuana.
How ‘bout you?
I agree.
<;-)
Thx.
I knew somebody would post that...
I'll give her a slight break for wearing a "meat dress" amongst a bunch of "elites".
At least she wasn’t smoking CIGARETTES. Now THAT would have been a crime.
I guess I’m confused. I thought a) pot isn’t addictive and b) I thought Lady Gaga was a man performing as a woman.
Well, at least the misnamed “Lady” Gaga was honest about this.
I had friends in high school in the late 60s who actually developed emphysema from smoking too much dope - not to mention memory loss and paranoia. One of my best friends, a really smart, funny girl from a great musical family who everybody expected to be the next in line, literally destroyed herself before our very eyes because she was permastoned from about the age of 15 on. And she never recovered.
Now marijuana is literally 10 times stronger. And this is what the doper generation wants to do to young people?
bump
Well, her having been a “pot head” certainly shows, he stupidity exceeds all beliefs.
She wasn't exactly brilliant WITH it.
War on Brain cells.
Another MSM can get their arms around.
Stay on the Target.
She is actually a decent serious jazz singer, along with Amy Winehouse, who recent passed away, likely from a drug overdose. They both emulate(d) Billy Holiday, who did the same to herself in 1957. Dinah Washington was another. But then there were Ella and Sarah Vaughan, who didn't need drugs "to be creative".
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