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It's the Cannabis or Me, Heather Told McCartney
Matt Born | Daily Mail | 01/23/06

Sir Paul McCartney had to fulfil one important condition before Heather Mills agreed to marry him, she revealed yesterday.

He had to agree to stop smoking cannabis.

Heather Mills McCartney - as she now calls herself - said her husband would use the drug as regularly as others drink cups of tea.

"Him and (his first wife) Linda smoked it every day for the whole of their lives together," she said of a relationship that lasted more than 30 years. "But I would not get married to him if he was taking drugs. I hate it.

"I could not have him lying to our child (they have a two-year-old daughter, Beatrice) about not taking drugs and then going out for a sneaky puff."

Despite having slept on the streets as a teenager and then spent several years working as a model - both worlds where drug abuse is rife - 37-year-old Heather said she had never been tempted to experiment herself.

"I've never taken drugs in my life," she said.

"One time at Ascot two models ran into the toilets and sniffed some cocaine off the cistern and I was, like, totally shocked.

"I never drank either until I met Paul. I was drunk (recently) on two glasses of wine at a Christmas party. I'm a very cheap date."

Her abstinence is in marked contrast to the early years of her 63-year-old husband, whom she married in 2002.

As a Beatle, he was a the forefront of the Sixties psychedelic revolution. And in an interview two years ago, he said that drugs had "informed" much of the band's music including songs such as Got to Get You Into My Life (which was about pot) and Day Tripper (about LSD).

He also admitted that he had tried both heroin and cocaine when the Beatles were in their prime.

In 1980, McCartney was arrested at Tokyo airport after customs officials discovered half a pound of marijuana in his luggage. He spent ten days in a Japanese prison cell before being released and deported.

Despite his habit, it appears Sir Paul had little difficulty giving up smoking dope following his fiancee's ultimatum. "He says he had a good incentive," she said when asked if he had found it hard to stop.

Heather said her revulsion of drugs came from having spent time counselling addicts.

"Fifty per cent of people can smoke joints their entire life and be fine. But the other 50 per cent, if there is a history of depression in their family or in their genes, then they can not smoke marijuana."

Given her own family's history of mental instability, she was sure that she "go wacky" if she ever tried it, she said.

In the interview with the Observer magazine, Heather said she was having difficulty sleeping because of screeching voices in her head.

"It was good," she said, when asked about being with her husband during his current tour of America, "but I didn't sleep well. The screaming always goes on in my head."

Confused, the interviewer inquired whether she was referring to Sir Paul's fans screaming outside the hotel - before being put straight.

"The screaming of the dogs and cats I had seen on the videos (about animals being skinned alive in China for their fur)," she said.

"Little puppy dogs and ***** cats, their faces so trusting. Just before the noose comes."

Heather, who is campaigning for a EU wide ban on fur from China, was also scathing about celebrities who wear fur such as Naomi Campbell.

She described the London-born supermodel as a "stupid, superficial hypocrite" after she started modelling fur having previously led a campaign for Peta, the animal welfare group.

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Tokamak

"I've never taken drugs in my life," she said.

Then how dare you condemn them!

"Fifty per cent of people can smoke joints their entire life and be fine. But the other 50 per cent, if there is a history of depression in their family or in their genes, then they can not smoke marijuana."

And the study that supports this is found where, exactly???

Given her own family's history of mental instability, she was sure that she "go wacky" if she ever tried it, she said.

In the interview with the Observer magazine, Heather said she was having difficulty sleeping because of screeching voices in her head.

That might actually be a good decision on her part...

Jeez... Its so sad to see one of the greatest musicians that has ever been turned into a hypocrit by such an air-headed twit. It really reflects in his music. That last album was absolute trash (except the mediocre 'Jenny Wren').

Peace.

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troublemaker_42

I absolutely love self-professed experts on drugs, who have had zero experience with them, or little knowledge of them. No different than a parrot....if they hear something often enough, they'll repeat it, wholly belieivng it with no knowledge whatsoever to back it up

cannipleza

paul mcartney sucked anyways, bring on the brian wilson

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nerphroll

Like he really quit...

 

dedbr

I told my wife that there were two women in my life, her and mary jane...

She said she knew better than to get in between a man and his true love....

Ded

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TheNewGuy

I think you have an addiction, and need to get help. Nobody should be in love with a drug. Women are bad enough on thier own.

Btw Paul McCartney always sucked.

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dedbr

...I'll run right out and check myself into the clinic.

Right after I kiss my wife goodbye and tell her I love her and goodbye and smoke a big fat hooter....

( Dedbr cotinues to scrub the outside of the bunker....)

Addiction? No bunker pass, New Guy....

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Buzzby

At that point I'd have said "Hasta la vista, Baby!" Not because I can't live without pot but because I wouldn't marry someone who gave me irrational ultimata.


Then don't lie about it! Growing up, there are things that are for adults and not for children. That's pretty simple. How many parents try to pretend that they never drink alcohol?


Even if this was true (which it's not), Sir Paul is not part of the latter category. He had a long and successful career while smoking on a daily basis.


She's mildly schizophrenic, so Paul can't smoke. I fail to see the logic in that, but prohibitionists are rarely logical.

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Chron

"Despite his habit, it appears Sir Paul had little difficulty giving up smoking dope following his fiancee's ultimatum."


Um.... Perhaps it was easy for him to quit because he had no habit!!! This tiresome propaganda really stinks. To them, anytime a person uses an illegal drug, it is automatically drug abuse. Consume a glass of wine every day, and you're a casual drinker. And some people actually fall for this.

I can't believe Sir Paul would ditch Mary Jane because of the demands of someone who has NEVER SMOKED BEFORE. Unbelievable. And then of course, the inevitable "But... but... what am I going to tell my kid" talking point comes into play. Tell the kid that her father smokes pot, and when she becomes an adult she'll have the option of doing the same. Geez.......