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Paul McCartney. 
“I don’t do it anymore. Why? The truth is I don’t really want to set [that] example [for] my kids and grandkids. It’s now a parent thing,” said this former member of The Beatles, and one of the most iconic musicians on the planet, about giving up pot after 40 years.

McCartney said he now enjoys a margarita or a glass of wine.

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Smoking weed, said McCartney, who is now 74, was more justifiable when he was a rocker running around London. He was reportedly introduced to the drug by Bob Dylan in the ’60s.

In 1980, when he was 37, he was famously busted for carrying 8 ounces of pot with him on a trip to Japan, when he was touring with his band, Wings. As a result of his arrest, his concerts were canceled, he was on the hook for roughly a million bucks, and he spent nine days alone in a Japanese prison cell. “I had an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. I kept thinking, “What have I done to my family?” McCartney recalled in 2011.

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“I was thrown into nine days of turmoil. It was very, very scary for the first three days. I don’t think I slept much at all. And when I slept, I had very bad dreams.”[lz_pagination]