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Four days after Anna Nicole Smith's death, Bill Maher apopeared on Tavis and told host Tavis Smiley that he believed Smith died of "pretty heavy drugs. And those, of course, are prescription drugs. So if you want to find an issue in this, that to me would be the issue. Prescription drugs are the real killer in this country. When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug-free America. They want an America free of the drugs that are their competition: Marijuana, which never killed anybody. So I guess the lesson is: Kids, stick with marijuana!"

It was revealed that Smith did indeed die from a massive cocktail of pharmaceuticals. On Real Time (March 30), Maher seized upon the opportunity to revisit this theme in his last "New Rule" of the show, "Drugstore Cow":

"This woman was killed by her doctor, who's a glorified bartender," he began. "This month marks the 35th anniversary of a famous government report [the Schaffer Commission]. I was 16 years in 1972. I remember how excited we were when Nixon's much ballyhooed commission came out and said pot should be legalized. It was a moment of great hope for common sense. Then, just like Bush did last year with the Iraq Study Group, Nixon threw it in the garbage..."

"When are we going to get it that America's most dangerous drugs are the legal ones in our medicine cabinets, while some of the most benign ones are growing under a heat lamp in my dressing room?"

Maher battered away like a champion bonghitter: "Forty percent of the U.S. population has tried pot - that's 94 million Americans. Or as I call them - my base. Are we all criminals? No, we're not. But it is criminal when a certain person borrows and doesn't return another person's diamond-encrusted bong, Woody! [referring to fellow CelebStoner Woody Harrelson]

"This week in the American Scientist... they found tobacco and alcohol are far worse than pot, which pretty much mirrors my own experiment in this area. The Beatles took pot and created Sgt. Pepper's. Anna Nicole Smith took legal drugs and she couldn't remember the number for 9-1-1.

"It's about 8:55 here in California - it's almost time for me to take my medicine. I leave with one request: Will someone please just make a bumper sticker that says: I'M A STONER & I VOTE."


News Hawk: Drboomhauer http://www.420Magazine.com
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