TORONTO — The team behind “Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time” is out with another sure-to-soon-be-viral video — just in time for 4/20, an annual day when cannabis culture is celebrated globally. This time, though, it’s ex-cops taking the tokes.
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The video was rolled out by Cut.com, whose video with the ganja grandmas five months ago received more than 20 million views.
“The former police officers, like the grandmas we filmed, are a population segment you wouldn’t typically connect to pot. By putting them together, we hope to make something that entertains, informs, and invites people to reflect on their own beliefs,” explains Cut.com’s creative director Mike Gaston.
His producer gets a former law enforcement trio to blaze from a bong in the latest video, perform sobriety tests on each other and talk about their pot-smoking pasts.
“I’ll tell ya, I was on a water bed with a very agreeable woman and listening to Rhapsody in Blue,” says 73-year-old Robert of his first time.
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He believes marijuana should be legal and that “it’s like the last piece of Prohibition.”
As for whether marijuana’s a gateway drug, the retiree states, “If you look at it, everyone who’s a heroin addict started out drinking milk.”
You can watch the whole thing below (as well as the grandmas video, in case you missed that one).
The video featuring the ex-cops was recorded in Washington State, where the recreational use of marijuana has been legalized.
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In other marijuana news, 81-year-old music legend Willie Nelson says he plans to roll out his own brand of cannabis that he intends to make “the best on the market.”
The singer-songwriter announced in a statement Monday that Willie’s Reserve will be grown and sold in Colorado and Washington, two states where recreational use of the drug is legal.
Nelson is a longtime supporter of marijuana for personal use and has spoken of its benefits for hemp production. He’s also pushed for the end of laws criminalizing use of the drug.
The origins of 4/20
The 4/20 moniker dates back to the pot culture of California in the early 1970s, but it became formally attached to April 20 when a group of Vancouver activists held the first day-long rally in 1995.
The annual 420 rallies, which have now gone global, usually have an emphasis on influencing government policy and decriminalizing marijuana.
This year’s event in Vancouver is set to focus on the federal election.
WATCH: Marijuana activist Marc Emery on the 20th annual 420 rally in downtown Vancouver.
With files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press
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