Surprising celebrities who have admitted to smoking cannabis

David Cameron was 15 when he was discovered to be smoking weed while studying at Eton. The former Prime Minister went on to be branded a ‘hypocrite’ due to his support of anti legalisation legislation.

The former President of the United States has openly admitted to smoking cannabis during his youth. While discussing the possible legalisation of marijuana in 2014, he said: “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. He added: “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”

The talk show host admitted that she smoked weed in her younger years, joking with interviewer Andy Cohen “I hear it’s gotten better!”

Cheryl admitted in her autobiography to smoking weed as a teenager and even confessed to lighting up in front of her Mum Joan. However, she has since taken an anti-drugs stance following her brother’s problems with addiction and a drugs-related death of a close friend.

In 2002, the then 17-year-old Prince was sent to a rehabilitation center for a day after it emerged that he had tried smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. He did not publicly comment at the time, with a spokesman simply saying: ‘This is a serious matter which was resolved within the family, and is now in the past and closed.’

The Take That star was left so devastated when the band split in 1997 that he ended up smoking ‘15 spliffs a day’. Gary said he was so hooked, he’d often just leave have a joint on his bedside table so that he could in bed before he got up in the morning.

The Transformers star once told GQ: ‘I can’t tell you how much bulls**t I’ve been through because I will openly say that I smoke weed. “People look at it like it’s this crazy, hippy, f**ked up thing to do. And it’s not. I hope they legalise it.”

It might surprise you to know that the Spiderman actress is a big fan of lighting up a joint and isn’t afraid of letting the world know. In fact, the star reckons it increases creativity and that the world would be a better place if “everyone smoked weed.”

JenAn has admitted in the past that she enjoys an occasional smoke – although is careful to stress always in moderation. “I enjoy it once in a while,” she told Rolling Stone magazine. “There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn’t call myself a pot-head.”

The actor told The Guardian that while he had quit experimenting with other drugs, he continues to smoke the occasional joint – calling marijuana “God’s own weed.”

Justin has been reported as saying that if weed were legalised the US crime rate would ‘cut in half’, in 2011, Timberlake said he loves smoking pot because it helps him stop overthinking and that people are ‘better high’.

The world famous novelist said when asked about cannabis: “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilisers and have greenhouses. . . .”

Natalie admitted to Entertainment Weekly that while at Harvard University she regularly smoked weed – however, added that she has since kicked the habit.

An advocate of legalisation, Whoopi also uses medical marijuana to treat her glaucoma. She also has her own line of cannabis-infused edibles designed to help women target period pain available in California.

The Oscar winning actor who rose to fame playing a stoner in 1993 movie Dazed and Confused was arrested in 1999 when police found weed in his Austin, Texas home. During the raid they also discovered a naked McConaughey playing the bongos.

The heiress was caught and arrested for marijuana possession at the 2010 World Cup.

The actress admits openly that has been smoking pot for a while — so long, in fact, that Snoop Dogg was her dealer when she was a teenager.

Stewart told Vanity Fair that she doesn’t care who judges her for smoking pot and that it keeps her ‘creative’.

The comedian admitted to smoking a marijuana filled e-cigarette vape pen at the 2014 Emmys red carpet. “This is my pot,” she told reporters. “Liquid pot.”

The comedy star has admitted smoking ‘a lot of weed’ saying ‘I think way more people smoke weed than the media likes to acknowledge’. He even went on to write a list of celebrities he’s shared a smoke with featuring the likes of Paul Rudd and Snoop Dogg.

“I smoke a lot of pot when I write music. I’m not going to sugarcoat it for ’60 Minutes,'” she revealed to Anderson Cooper in an interview for “60 Minutes.” “What artists do wrong is they lie, and I don’t lie. I’m not a liar,” she added.