{"id":715,"date":"2021-08-26T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/wp-home\/?p=176096"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:08:58","slug":"at-80-david-crosby-recalls-his-greatest-weed-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"At 80, David Crosby recalls his greatest weed moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <title>At 80, David Crosby recalls his greatest weed moments | Leafly<\/title>     <!-- Quotes = strings--><!-- No quotes = boolean-->\t   <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->                  <!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- BEGIN Sailthru Horizon Meta Information --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END Sailthru Horizon Meta Information -->  <!-- Google Publisher Tag --> <!-- End Google Publisher Tag --> <!-- Google Tag Manager --> <!-- End Google Tag Manager --> <!-- Chartbeat --> <!-- End Chartbeat --><br \/>\n <!-- Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->   <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) -->   <title>Leafly<\/title>     <title>Leafly \u00ae<\/title>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              <title>Loading\u2026<\/title>     <\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-white fixed flex hidden inset-0 items-start md:h-auto md:items-center overflow-auto\" id=\"age-gate-container\">\n<div class=\"bg-white md:h-auto mx-auto p-lg text-sm w-full\" id=\"age-gate\">\n<p><label for=\"select-country\">Where are you from?<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"age-gate__info\">\n<p><button class=\"button\" data-testid=\"age-gate-no-button\" id=\"tou-cancel\">no<\/button><button class=\"button ml-md\" data-testid=\"age-gate-yes-button\" id=\"tou-continue\">yes<\/button><\/p>\n<p><label class=\"checkbox__label my-xl\"><span class=\"text-xs\" id=\"remember-user-label\">Remember me for 30 days. <br \/>I confirm that this is not a shared device.<\/span><\/label><\/p>\n<p class=\"error error--underage hidden\">Darn! 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A Grammy winner twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2014as co-founder of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash\u2014he has been called everything from an asshole (<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/david-crosby-interview-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by himself<\/a>) to an iconoclast, and often serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of hedonistic excess among the rock star set.<\/p>\n<p>But at 80, the Croz has decidedly mellowed. He\u2019s also entered a new phase in life as an elder statesman enjoying a late-career renaissance. His new album <em>For Free<\/em> just dropped to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/david-crosby-for-free-review-3000121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">glowing reviews<\/a>, his health is sound in body and mind, and he regularly revels in his role as the nation\u2019s premier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-crosby-weed-twitter-coronavirus-968554\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joint rolling critic<\/a> via his always engaging Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>And now\u2014in an exclusive interview with the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/megaphone.link\/POD5080490423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Great Moments in Weed History<\/em><\/a><em>\u2014<\/em>he\u2019s finally weighing in on the positive role cannabis has played in his life, his work, and his recovery from drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the eve of his 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, on August 14, Crosby pushed back against the idea that he\u2019s a music legend and cannabis icon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just another stoner, man,\u201d Crosby said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-he-smoked-the-best-weed-in-the-sixties-and-seventies\">He smoked the best weed in the sixties and seventies<\/h2>\n<p>Maybe so, but he\u2019s still a stoner who smoked out the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, spent much of the 1970s sailing the high seas with some of the era\u2019s most prolific weed smugglers, and enjoyed a reputation for having the strongest stash in the rock scene back in the day when the best buds still came in from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Was the cannabis of that era really so much different than what we puff on today? Crosby had this to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell, that really depended on who you were and who you knew. The pot that we had in the early sixties was crap: bricked-up seeded kilos coming up from Mexico in truck beds. Then somebody brought up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/learn\/cannabis-glossary\/sinsemilla\">sinsemilla<\/a> from down in Michoac\u00e1n. And as soon as we got ahold of that stuff, it was an entirely different world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But really, there was no shortage of truly stunning cannabis back then. We were also getting actual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/strains\/thai\">Thai Stick<\/a> that was still on the stick.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-sober-is-sober-smoking-is-smoking\">\u2018Sober is sober. Smoking is smoking.\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Known for his angelic singing and occasionally demonic off-stage antics, Crosby has long been a counterculture hero for his refusal to literally and metaphorically cut his hair. He\u2019s also someone who famously struggled with substance abuse. In the mid-1980s he spent five months in a Texas prison on drug and weapons charges.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his release in 1986, he quit all intoxicants, including weed. But then, around the year 2000, he decided to reintegrate cannabis back into his life\u2014both as a medicine (\u201cI\u2019ve got tendinitis in both hands\u201d) and as a safer alternative to alcohol and hard drugs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" alt=\"photo-of-crosby-stills-and-nash-in-the-seventies\" class=\"wp-image-176198 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/at-80-david-crosby-recalls-his-greatest-weed-moments-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/at-80-david-crosby-recalls-his-greatest-weed-moments-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/at-80-david-crosby-recalls-his-greatest-weed-moments-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/at-80-david-crosby-recalls-his-greatest-weed-moments-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>After a hall of fame run with The Byrds, Croz went on to create classic harmonies with Crosby, Stills and Nash, pictured here in an undated photo. From left: Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-soft-landing-with-cannabis\">A soft landing with cannabis<\/h2>\n<p>Cannabis had never been among his problem substances, but for a long time he didn\u2019t trust himself to indulge in it. Now he grows his own at home and even has his own personal cannabis line\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/mightycroz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mighty Croz<\/a>\u2014in the works.<\/p>\n<p>So while the Croz himself chafes at the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/canada\/cali-sober-can-you-be-sober-and-still-smoke-weed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California sober<\/a>,\u201d that\u2019s exactly where he\u2019s happily landed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Whatever you want to call it, that\u2019s what I do\u2014cannabis but nothing else. And it\u2019s been a good thing in my life, though I couldn\u2019t and wouldn\u2019t speak for anyone else. Also, I don\u2019t want to preach, but it\u2019s not really \u2018sober\u2019\u2014so that\u2019s my disagreement with that term.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because I think when you\u2019re trying to stay sober you can\u2019t have any gray area. I was trying to kick heroin and cocaine\u2014that\u2019s real serious stuff\u2014and it took me a year in maximum security prison to break it. And then for fourteen years I went to meetings three or four times a week and didn\u2019t touch anything, until I didn\u2019t feel like it was snapping at my heels anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s when it felt okay for me to start smoking pot again, and it\u2019s still the only thing I do. But I think calling that any kind of sober is cheating. Sober is sober. Smoking is smoking. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a middle ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-trust-your-nose\">Trust your nose<\/h2>\n<p>While Crosby can still fondly recall the specific strain of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/strains\/african\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African weed<\/a> he first smoked out the Beatles on 50 years ago, he maintains a healthy skepticism about the hundreds of varieties available at California\u2019s legal cannabis dispensaries\u2014claiming that only the plant geneticists really know what\u2019s in the jar.<\/p>\n<p>So when assessing the modern world of hybrid and poly-hybrid varietals, he falls back on the old stoner adage that \u201cthe nose knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe names? I think a lot of times people just made them up last week. They do that in the stores all the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-dedicated-home-grower\">A dedicated home grower<\/h2>\n<p>At home, Crosby keeps it simple by growing five distinct varietals he\u2019s nicknamed for their most pronounced attributes, like Purple. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left\">\n<p>\u2018What I\u2019ve learned from growing my own pot is that it\u2019s an awful lot of fun.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He enjoys puffing on a Pax vaporizer starting usually in mid to late afternoon and concludes each day by rolling up a fat joint and watching a movie with his wife. In between he often finds cannabis to be a creative catalyst for his songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>He also enjoys growing cannabis as a creativity-stimulating pursuit, one that engenders a profound connection to the plant.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned from growing my own pot is that it\u2019s an awful lot of fun. The plants are beautiful and lovely. They grow like crazy and truly respond to you. What I end up doing in the morning is making some coffee and wandering around in my underwear in the garden. I\u2019ll pluck off a leaf here and there while I water them and tell them how lovely they are\u2026. 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