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Willie Nelson Wants To Smoke Marijuana With Trump And Putin
Everyone’s favorite country singer and legendary stoner Willie Nelson says he’d be glad to smoke weed with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama.
The Red Headed Stranger made the revelations in an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week. The host showed Nelson celebrity photos in a rapid-fire fashion and the singer had to say if he’d toke up with them or not.
Nelson doesn’t say no to consuming cannabis with a single person, including the former and current presidents. When shown a picture of Putin, Colbert asks if it would help international relations if Nelson shared a joint with him, to which he replies, “There’s several people I’d like to see take a hit, so to speak.”
When a picture of Donald Trump immediately follows, Nelson says, “Oh yeah. He needs one bad. That could be good for him.”
And capping off the round is a photo of former president Barack Obama. Nelson laughs and says, “Yeah, I think he may have already been there a time or two.” Now that he’s out of office, wouldn’t we all love to see the former Choom Gang leader go for a session in Willie’s bus?
Absent from the lineup of celebrities was Colbert himself. Is the beard the real clue we need to know The Late Show host is jumping on the pot bandwagon?
Colbert left his desk and studio audience to speak to the singer from the inside of Nelson’s famous bus, which wasn’t (at the time) full of marijuana smoke. After asking about the bus’s name and joking about other people with named vehicles, like Batman or The Pope, Colbert complimented the smell of the “air freshener” inside the bus, saying it was “relaxing.”
“Is that lavender? Is that one of the flavors?” he joked, to which Nelson laughed and replied, “If it’s not, it will be. The Colbert Lavender. We’ll have it,” most likely referring to his marijuana company Willie’s Reserve.
Colbert asks about the history of Nelson’s iconic braids, and then the conversation moves to his support for Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Texas. O’Rourke, as Marijuana Moment has previously reported, wants to end the federal prohibition of marijuana and create a legal, regulated system. Colbert brings up the recently viral photo of Nelson wearing a “Beto For Texas” shirt while giving the camera his upright middle finger, a la Johnny Cash.
The pair go on to cover Nelson’s latest album, My Way, which is all Frank Sinatra covers. Colbert plays an old ad for the Space Foundation featuring Ol’ Blue Eyes himself and Nelson joking around.
Nelson relays a story about an astronaut recently visiting the bus and telling the country legend, “You’re the only I know that’s been higher than me.” Maybe Nelson is working his way to a smoke session with Elon Musk.
It’s not Colbert’s funniest segment, but not without some laughs—and certainly respecting, and playing to, Nelson’s famous relationship with the plant.
Watch the full interview below:
Photo courtesy of CBS.
