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OLIVER STONE
going on to talk about legalization. “It can be done. It can be done legally, safely, healthily - and it can be Oliver Stone is one of the most famous directors, screenwriters taxed and the government can pay for education and and authors of the 20th century. We’ve all seen his famous films stuff like that. Also, you can like “Platoon,” “The Doors,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and save a fortune by not putting kids in jail.” “Natural Born Killers.” The vast majority of Stone’s screenplays At the time, Stone held a remarkably forward-thinking and films involve his love of history, which is often used to retell mentality about legalization, which wouldn’t take hold in Colorado or Washington stories in a compelling fashion for modern audiences. for two years after the interview.. Talking about legalization, he said, “As a politiStone has been a controversial figure in tone was born in New York City in 1946, cian, I would fight for decriminalization first, because the media for a variety of reasons. and was eventually admitted to Yale. But that is the immediate by-product of this mess that we For one, he has made many statements shortly after he started, Stone dropped out got ourselves into. It’s very hard to pull out of a $40 related to his leftist political views, and has of Yale and went to teach English in Vietnam. billion-a-year industry, which is the prison industry. supported - or seemed to support - conFrom there, he worked on a Merchant Marine It’s probably more than $40 billion. But they will troversial world leaders and governments. ship that traveled from Asia to Oregon frequentfight you tooth and nail to keep these prisons as big Stone has also been outspoken on his own ly. Stone also had quite a career in the military as they are,” Stone said. personal views of human liberty in the 20th with the United States Army, where he served in “It’s worse than slavery, per capita. In the black and 21st centuries. That includes the use of Vietnam. There he earned many military service community, it is a form of slavery, this drug war, beillicit substances and Cannabis. awards for valor. cause it imprisons a huge portion of people, destroys In 2012, as part of major press junkets In the early 1970s, Stone graduated from New their lives, coarsens our culture. And why? Marijuana for the movie “Savages” (which chronicles York University with a bachelor’s degree in film is much less harmful than tobacco and prescription the US-led drug war with Mexican and and started writing screenplays. His 1978 screendrugs in many cases, and certainly alcohol. This puColombian cartels), Stone play for the film “Midnight Express” won him his ritanical strain got started with Nixon. “MARIJUANA IS laid out his feelings on first Oscar. Afterwards, he wrote another screenIt was a political issue for him, and MUCH LESS HARMFUL Cannabis - which he said play - this time based on his own addiction to it’s gotten worse. It’s like the PentaTHAN TOBACCO AND he has smoked all around cocaine, called “Scarface.” Stone says he kicked gon. You can’t stop it.” PRESCRIPTION DRUGS the world. his addiction to the substance while writing it. While Stone has been relatively IN MANY CASES, AND “There’s good weed In 1986, he started directing films, beginning mum on the subject recently, these CERTAINLY ALCOHOL. everywhere in the world, but with what many consider to be his masterpiece: quotes provide perspective into a THIS PURITANICAL my God, these Americans “Platoon.” From there, Stone became the directodirector who has helped shape our STRAIN GOT STARTED are brilliant,” he said, then rial wunderkind we all know today. WITH NIXON.” culture over the past five decades.
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