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Apr 6, 2006

Louis Armstrong




On page four in his biography of Louis Armstrong Laurence Bergreen makes the following statement; "He loved marijuana too. He smoked it in vast quantities from his early twenties until the end of his life; wrote songs in praise of it; and persuaded his musician friends to smoke it when they played. He planned to call an unpublished sequel to his autobiography Gage, his pet name for marijuana, but once his manager found out about the title and the subject of the work, he suppressed the manuscript, trying to protect Louis's reputation. Sections of the work that survived the censorship show that he regarded it as an essential element in his life and beneficial to his health." In an essay posted on The Trebach Report I discuss some very important implications of the above history.



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Anthony Gregory - 4/6/2006

This is more proof, as if we needed any more, that marijuana is a dangerous gateway to jazz music and other antisocial behavior. I'm glad FDR acted when he did, in 1937, to put a stop to it. Otherwise people would be smoking the stuff now and we wouldn't have a drug-free America.