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Dave Chappelle Ate Magic Mushrooms Gifted By A Stranger, Joe Rogan Says
Comedian Dave Chappelle recently rented out a movie theater at 1:00 AM and took psilocybin mushrooms that a stranger handed him.
That’s according to Joe Rogan, who also attended the private screening of Quentin Tarantino’s new film with Chappelle after the pair performed a stand-up show in Tacoma, Washington.
“I’m pretty sure he ate mushrooms from a fan the other day,” Rogan said on his podcast last week.
“We have a private screening of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood at one o’clock in morning. Dave is eating mushrooms that some fucking guy gave him in the crowd,” he said.
Rogan, no stranger to tripping, said he did not partake in the psychedelic festivities this time.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” he joked.
That said, Chappelle did gift a bag of unlabeled cannabis edibles to Rogan, he said.
“I don’t know where the fuck they came from,” Rogan said. “They were in a bag.”
While Chappelle has incorporated marijuana and magic mushrooms in his comedy routines (like this 1998 bit where he also talked about taking shrooms he got from a stranger and then hallucinating during a haircut), he’s also seriously advocated for reforming cannabis policy.
Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, who ran for governor of Maryland in 2018 on a pro-legalization platform, credited Chappelle for first putting the idea or marijuana reform in his head.
The two had an “ongoing conversation about the history of marijuana enforcement—the way it was targeted at our community and Latino communities—and that just sort of opened my eyes,” Jealous told Marijuana Moment last year.
Whether Chappelle will go on to become a vocal advocate for psychedelics reform is yet to be seen.
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Photo courtesy of YouTube/Joe Rogan Experience.
