Salon: 1935 ad, "WARNING! Shrewd dope peddlers may put some killer "marihuana" in your tea"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 08:01 ET
Can celebrities get busted for bragging about pot smoking?
Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson explains the loose connection between celebs, liberty, the Tea Party and pot
By Adam Clark Estes

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/17/nesson_marijuana_pot_legalization_gaga/index.html



An advertisement distributed by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1935

Lady Gaga appeared on "60 Minutes" a few days ago and talked for a minute about smoking pot while writing music. As the debate around Proposition 19 in California ramped up last year, we heard a lot more celebrities talk about their marijuana habits, and many donated large sums to the legalization campaign. So we wondered, could they get in trouble for talking so openly about breaking the law?

To find some answers we called up Charles Nesson, the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, for some thoughts on the state of drug policy. After studying at Harvard College and Harvard Law School in the '60s, Nesson has become an expert in civil liberties and defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case. Now, he's interested in advancing justice in Jamaica, the evolution of the Internet, as well as national drug policy. While he doesn't know much about Lady Gaga, Nesson is optimistic about a more open dialogue around the notion of liberty in America.