Right on, Tony Bennett! I like this guy more and more! The “War On Drugs” is a racist sham and although I think drugs are stupid and I am straightedge, I firmly believe we should stop the drug war and legalize drugs (especially marijuana).

rollingstone:

Just hours after hearing the news of Whitney Houston’s death Saturday night, Tony Bennett has found himself in the midst of controversy for suggesting that legalizing drugs might have saved Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. 

“One thing I’ve learned about young people, when you say ‘Don’t do this,’ that’s the one thing there going to try and do,” he said while onstage at Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy gala on Saturday night. “Once it’s legal and everybody can do it, there is no longer the desire to do something that nobody else can do.”

Bennett, who survived cocaine addiction in the late Seventies, won two Grammys last night, bringing his total to 17. He won for “Body and Soul”, a collaboration with the late Amy Winehouse. Bennett told Rolling Stone that he didn’t know Houston, but remembers when he first heard her sing he thought, “that is the best singer I have ever heard in my life.”

To read more about Tony Bennett’s comments, head over to Rollingstone.com 

-Jasmine Stein