{"id":43573,"date":"2018-09-24T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/hitunes-which-member-of-the-beatle-smoked-the-most-weed-sept-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:31:14","slug":"hitunes-which-member-of-the-beatle-smoked-the-most-weed-sept-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/hitunes-which-member-of-the-beatle-smoked-the-most-weed-sept-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"HiTunes: Which Member of The Beatles Smoked the Most Weed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In our series, "HiTunes," we investigate various marijuana lore throughout music history, debunking myths and sifting through hazy rumors for the blunt truth. <\/em>Why have multiple artists written songs warning others about smoking with Willie Nelson<\/em><\/u><\/a>? <\/em>Why do so many songs about weed reference Humphrey Bogart<\/em><\/u><\/a>? <\/em>What albums required the most weed to make<\/em><\/u><\/a>? We'll explore these urban legends and more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tracking The Beatles’ substance intake provides a something of barometer for ‘60s rock as a whole. Jittery, amphetamine-aided R&B\/teeny-bop pop gave way to mellower, blunted folk rock (Help!<\/em>, Rubber Soul<\/em>), then to head-blown psychedelia (Revolver<\/em>, Sgt. Pepper<\/em>), and finally to coked-up eclecticism (The White Album<\/em>, Let It Be<\/em>). While the band’s well-publicized popularization of LSD might have been the bigger overall contribution to drug culture, the Fab Four also clearly loved to smoke herb. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\nAs such, their tenure as a band is filled with charming, often hilarious anecdotes about toking up. It all started in The Beatles\u2019 infancy around the time they were cutting their teeth in German clubs, and as is the case for many first-timers, their first smoking experience wasn\u2019t all that successful. Wrote George Harrison in his 1992 memoir, Anthology<\/em>: <\/p>\nWe first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn’t actually try it until after we’d been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, ‘This stuff isn’t doing anything.’ It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, ‘This stuff doesn’t work, man.’<\/em><\/p>\nThe band\u2019s true cannabis awakening occurred four years later. At New York\u2019s Delmonico Hotel in 1964, they met Bob Dylan for the first time, and when unable to fulfill the folk singer\u2019s request for \u201ccheap wine,\u201d he suggested they blaze up. After Beatles manager Brian Epstein claimed the band had never tried weed, Dylan was a little shocked, having misheard the \u201cI can\u2019t hide\u201d refrain in \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d as \u201cI get high!\u201d So they lit up, and the rest is history.<\/p>\nBy the time they were filming Help! <\/em>a year later, the band was so fond of pot that they had difficulty focusing on set. Recalling the shoot in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0040ZN98G\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final interview<\/u><\/a>, John Lennon said:<\/p>\nThe Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time. <\/em><\/p>\nSome tales of The Beatles\u2019 stoner phase are apocryphal, such as the claim that they blazed a joint in a Buckingham Palace bathroom directly before being knighted in 1965 (Harrison said it was just a cigarette). But less publicized was the band\u2019s advocacy for legalization. In 1967, all four Beatles and Epstein appeared in an ad in British paper The Times <\/em>that called for cannabis legalization, medical research, and justice for small-time drug offenders. For a few members of the band, this was just the start of their advocacy.<\/p>\nWhile The Beatles were an intact unit, the members were so closely linked that it was often difficult to tell whose lyrics were whose, whose philosophies made their way into the music, and whose fondness for specific drugs outshone the others\u2019. Once they broke up though, the individual members\u2019 personalities became more well-defined on their own. This holds true for the musicians\u2019 affinity for marijuana, as well.<\/p>\nToday we ask the question: which Beatle smoked the most pot? Like the prior HiTunes <\/em>question of albums whose sessions involved the most pot-smoking, this one\u2019s impossible to quantifiably prove, so we\u2019ve got to work off of the anecdotal evidence that exists. Here are our guesses as to each Beatle\u2019s level of consumption, ranked lowest to highest. <\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UM7iL0HCcM0\"\/><\/p>\n4. Ringo Starr<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nDespite an auspicious start to his stoner career, Ringo seemed to taper off his consumption more quickly than any of his bandmates. He was undoubtedly the MVP of the inaugural sesh with Bob Dylan, though. According to a story that\u2019s been recounted in multiple books, and most recently, on air with Conan O\u2019Brien, he not only took the first hit, but smoked the entire first joint to himself, not knowing proper puff-puff-pass etiquette at the time. \u201cWe got high and laughed our asses off,\u201d he told Conan in 2012. \u201cI went first. The drummers always go first. That\u2019s just how it was.\u201d<\/p>\nAfter this debut performance, there\u2019s a sharp drop-off in Ringo stoner tales. All the evidence we have of him continuing to smoke after The Beatles broke up is his cover of Hoyt Axton and David Jackson\u2019s \u201cThe No No Song\u201d in 1974. In it, he sings about being offered Colombian weed (along with cocaine and whiskey, later on in the song), but he turns it down. It was the early \u201870s though, so name-dropping marijuana in a song \u2014 even if you eventually turn it down \u2014 was still somewhat of a sign of being down with the doja.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZN_8M4OpMo\"\/><\/p>\nThe most definitive word on Ringo comes from a 2015 Rolling Stone <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/tommy-chong-on-weed-jail-and-getting-high-with-every-beatle-except-paul-104263\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/u><\/a> with Tommy Chong, which will be cited on multiple occasions throughout this list. After all, who better to hand down stoner rankings than Chong himself? When asked if he\u2019d ever smoked with the Beatles drummer, Chong said he\u2019d only ever smoked near <\/em>Ringo, <\/em>not with <\/em>him, per se:<\/p>\nWell, Ringo was always trying to get over alcohol. He was always on some kind of wagon. He was so sweet. He\u2019d always give you big hugs and kisses. He was kind of weird, but again, I got high with him and Keith Moon. I think Keith Moon was there and Ringo, but Ringo turned it down because he was on the wagon. So again, I smoked in his presence.<\/em><\/p>\nThere you have it. Ringo: not big on pot. <\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JA1uC8ohUSY\"\/><\/p>\n3. John Lennon<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe #2 and #3 rankings on this list are basically neck-in-neck. #3 has a whole lot of evidence to suggest a love of pot, but also a ton of evidence against it. #2 simply has a few pot anecdotes in its favor, and nothing on the opposing side. But with the evidence at hand, John Lennon seems to land in the bottom half of The Beatles\u2019 stoner rankings. <\/p>\nThe evidence for John being a massive pothead is pretty staggering. In 1968, he an Yoko Ono were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-arrested-for-drug-possession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/u><\/a> after some 200 grams (!!) of hash was found in their home. The next year, he went further than any other Beatle in terms of political action for cannabis legalization, testifying before the Le Dain Commission, a federal task force assigned to drug law reform, in Canada. Speaking to the commission about his fight for legalization, he said: <\/p>\nThe only real help we’ve had, and the only people like you that we’ve ever been approached by or the only people we’ve heard of that are doing anything like this, is going on in Canada, and Canada is America without being American, without that, \u2018we are the mighty whatever\u2019 scene\u2026 This is the opportunity for Canada to lead the world\u2026 America is too paranoiac to do anything.<\/em><\/p>\nWith possession of a superhuman amount of hash and noted attempts at political activism on his record, Lennon seems like a grade-A stoner. But dig a little deeper and it doesn\u2019t seem quite as clear-cut. London police sergeant Norman Pilcher, Lennon and Ono\u2019s arresting officer in the 1968 possession case, was constantly suspected of planting drugs on targets, especially celebrities. Eventually, in 1973, he was sentenced to four years in prison for \u201cperverting the court of justice,\u201d specifically by \u201cfabricating evidence.\u201d Couple that with Ono later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/celebrity\/latest\/news\/a12552\/yoko-ono-daily-beast-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/u><\/a> that she always \u201chated\u201d marijuana, and Lennon\u2019s arrest seems a little less damning. <\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LftibKEA7U\"\/><\/p>\nThen you have that aforementioned quote about the Help! <\/em>film set from Lennon, where he said that grass had the band \u201cbeyond comprehension\u201d to the point where \u201cnobody could communicate with us.\u201d That hardly sounds like a glowing endorsement of the drug. But again, we\u2019ll leave the final word to Tommy Chong, who also told a Lennon story during that 2015 interview:<\/p>\nTommy Chong: With John Lennon, that was weird. We were at a party at [record producer] Lou Adler\u2019s house, and all the hippies were there, the Stones, Mick Jagger and the boys, and John Lennon, Rod Stewart. I was looking for a place to get high, and Lou said, \u201cUse the bedroom.\u201d So I went in there and lit up this big, old, smelly joint \u2014 the real stinky kind \u2014 and something caught my eye. There was a guy sitting on the floor by the bed, and it was John Lennon. So I walked over and I offered him a toke, and he refused because of his immigration problems. So he was sitting there in a bit of a funk, but on the floor. It was pretty funny. Then I turn around and Rod Stewart walks in and was looking in the mirror, fluffing his hair up, so I offered Rod Stewart a toke and he turned it down because of his throat. \u201cI\u2019ve got to watch my voice.\u201d So, even though John never smoked any, I always tell people that I got high with John, because I did get high.<\/em><\/p>\nAgain, if you turn down a chance to smoke with Tommy Chong, you\u2019re probably not that big of a stoner.<\/p>\n2. George Harrison<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThe most private Beatle, George Harrison, didn\u2019t leave a ton of weed stories in his wake, but what we have suggests a fondness for grass. For starters, he and his wife Linda were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/london-police-conduct-drug-raid-at-home-of-george-harrison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/u><\/a> for possession in 1969. Now, it was<\/em> the notorious cop Norman Pilcher who busted them, too, but the amount of hash was allegedly far less than what was found in Lennon and Ono\u2019s house, so it seems a little less likely to have been planted.<\/p>\nThen, we\u2019ve got this snippet of a later interview with Harrison (source unknown) in which he waxes a little poetically about pot\u2019s connection to music. It\u2019s light on hard evidence, but watch it and tell me this guy didn\u2019t love the herb:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwXCDls6kYc\"\/><\/p>\nBut most importantly, what\u2019s Tommy Chong got to say about George? Harrison was the last Beatle for whom he provided stoner info, but far from the least prodigious:<\/p>\nTommy Chong: George and I smoked up a bunch of times. I met George at this hippie party way out in Malibu. It was really funny because, remember Tony Dow from \u201cLeave It to Beaver\u201d? He was Wally. He was at the party, too. So, I had the joint, I handed it to George, George took a toke, handed it back to me, and I looked and there\u2019s Tony Dow, Wally [laughs]. He\u2019s waiting for me to hand it to him. And I couldn\u2019t resist, I said, \u201cGee, Wally, does the Beaver know about this?\u201d [Laughs] And he gave me this disgusted look, like, \u201cC\u2019mon man, get off of that shit,\u201d but he smoked up. I got high with George a bunch of times. And George played on a Cheech and Chong record one time, \u201cBasketball Jones.\u201d That whole intro is him. He was a real beautiful guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r95-7zfgtLw\"\/><\/p>\n1.<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>Paul McCartney<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nPaul doesn\u2019t seem like the biggest stoner in the Beatles. He was the cute, sensitive one in their early years, and today embodies the cool, chill grandpa. But boy, does this guy have a rap sheet. As far as we can tell, he\u2019s never been arrested for anything but <\/em>pot possession, which he\u2019s been hit with on five <\/em>different occasions in five <\/em>different countries. <\/p>\nBut first, we\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t mention that dude also wrote the only Beatles song that\u2019s been revealed to be explicitly about weed. In his memoir Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now<\/em>, Macca claimed that \u201cGot to Get You Into My Life,\u201d from the album Revolver<\/em>, was an \u201code to pot, like someone else might a write an ode to chocolate or a good claret.\u201d The song\u2019s metaphor is so subtle that we included it on our <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/hitunes-a-history-of-musics-best-weed-slang-and-metaphors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/u><\/a> of music\u2019s best weed slang and metaphors a few months ago. <\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1537815065674_ScreenShot2018-09-24at2.47.38PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/files.merryjane.com\/uploads\/generic\/1537815065674_ScreenShot2018-09-24at2.47.38PM.png\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 301px;\"\/><\/p>\nImage of Paul McCartney smoking with Fela Kuti <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/tGkeuMPPmW\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\nBut let\u2019s get to these godlike arrest records. In 1972, McCartney was arrested and fined \u00a31,000 for possession in Sweden. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/paul-mccartney-busted-growing-pot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">various sources<\/u><\/a>, it was a negligible amount of weed, but Sweden\u2019s drug laws were still quite draconian at that point in time. McCartney\u2019s next bust came at his home in Scotland less than a year later, when local police discovered several cannabis plants growing in his farm. This fine, for just \u00a3100, was much more reasonable.<\/p>\nPaul\u2019s record actually got him banned from the U.S. for a couple of years, but when he was allowed to return in 1975, lo and behold, he and his wife were busted yet again. Los Angeles police pulled them over after running a red light and smelled some ganj, for which Linda took the fall (probably a smart move, considering Paul was the driver and would\u2019ve faced harsher charges). <\/p>\nPaul\u2019s pot follies continued into the \u201880s. By far his biggest bust occurred at Tokyo\u2019s Narita Airport in 1980, right at the start of the Wings\u2019 Japanese tour. Customs officials found half a pound of marijuana in his luggage, which Paul assured them was for personal use only. He was held for 10 days, then released and deported without charge. His last bust came in Barbados in \u201884, when he was caught with a small amount and fined $200. His celebrity status and stoner rep might have made McCartney a target, but it clearly took him a while to learn his lesson.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUNtaFuq6RA\"\/><\/p>\nIn more recent years, McCartney\u2019s cut pot out of his life. \u201cI don\u2019t do it anymore,\u201d he told The Mirror <\/em>in 2015, \u201cWhy? The truth is I don\u2019t really want to set an example to my kids and grandkids. It\u2019s now a parent thing.\u201d He continued, \u201cInstead of smoking a spliff I\u2019ll now have a glass of red wine or a nice margarita. The last time I smoked was a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\nFollow Patrick Lyons on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/P_Lyons_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using anecdotal evidence, archival interviews, and an analysis of some reefer rumors, we\u2019ve attempted to answer an almighty question: Which Beatle was most fond of the sweet leaf?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3035],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>HiTunes: Which Member of The Beatles Smoked the Most Weed? - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/hitunes-which-member-of-the-beatle-smoked-the-most-weed-sept-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HiTunes: Which Member of The Beatles Smoked the Most Weed? 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