First it was Oliver Stone smoking a joint on the cover of High Times magazine. Now it's Stone's Platoon buddy Charlie Sheen who's puffing the ganja.
Except Sheen isn't smoking just any old cannabis indica or sativa, he's sampling his very own strain: Charlie Sheen OG.
In an interview with Playboy magazine, Sheen said he was “honored” that somebody invented a strain named after him, even though he's not a “pot” person himself–although this photograph at ContactMusic.com suggests otherwise.
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''They now sell pot named after me in the dispensaries,” Sheen apparently told Playboy. “'The quality's fine. There's too much quality, if anything. I couldn't feel my hands after a while. I smoked some with a friend, and she said, 'What a trip. I'm with Charlie Sheen smoking Charlie Sheen.' ''I was like, 'How do you think I feel? I'm smoking myself!' ''
According to ContactMusic.com, Sheen said that if his kids went on to smoke weed and he caught them in the act, he'd have a few questions for them. ''Well, I'd want to know about the quality and how much the damn thing costs, you know, just to make sure they're not getting f***ing ripped off,” he said. “And my next question would be, 'Is it Charlie Sheen OG?' ''
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Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).