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5 Highly Successful Americans Who Defy Every Stereotype of Being a Stoner

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 18:43
That stoner kid who hacked the CIA director's personal email is the latest to give the lie to the stupid pot smoker stereotype.
 

When somebody hacked into the private email account of CIA director John Brennan last month, the irony was palpable. Here's the head of the world's spookiest spy agency getting played by some kid. And when it turned out that kid was a self-proclaimed stoner hacker, the schadenfreude meter went from the ridiculous to the sublime.

In honor of this stoner overachiever, and in another bid to forever bury the negative myths and stereotypes about marijuana users, we present a list of five other pot smokers who achieved some pretty remarkable things.

1. Stephen Jay Gould. One of the most influential and widely read popular science writers, Gould took up the pot pipe in 1982 after being diagnosed with cancer, and claimed marijuana had

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