I always took quarters because that was enough. But I never took a whole dose of the stuff. Newman: Yeah, I tripped a couple of times. If it’s true, it’s diabolical! You get cirrhosis of the liver with alcohol, but marijuana doesn’t harm you, so the government tried to devise a way to make it harm you. And now there’s the State Department’s statement that was issued about paraquat being sprayed on Mexican marijuana… if it’s true, and it may not be, it may just be something to intimidate people from buying it. A lot of people smoke marijuana, and it’s less harmful than alcohol. Newman: Well, because marijuana is obviously harmless and there shouldn’t be penalties for it. High Times: Why did you agree to pose in a “Repeal POThibition” T-shirt? But the third time: “It’s not working… it’s not working… Ohhh myyy God… I’m too light to put… my… foot… down… on… the… floor.” And then some of my friends put Taj Mahal on the record player, and I wanted a tuna fish sandwich-real bad. I had already smoked twice before and not gotten off. High Times: What was it like the first time you got high? You come to New York and smoke Colombian, and it’s all of a sudden awaaaay… “Look at the trails, man!” I used to smoke Mexican in L.A., where you need about six hits before you get high. With cocaine, however, it’s just “Wow, this is really groovy… and tomorrow we will learn Japanese…” And then I start writing the same sentence over and over again. I can work on pot, write on it and create things on it. It’s an introspective high, and it’s made me very creative. Newman: Marijuana has taught me a lot of things. High Times: Does marijuana help you create comedy? There are rumors that Laraine Newman will play the role of Wang Lung’s wife in the upcoming remake of The Good Earth.Ĭlearly an avatar of our time, Laraine Newman is the First Lady of hip rock comediennes. Critics have compared her to Bea Lillie, Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand. In the current box-office blockbuster American Hot Wax, Laraine has the challenging, difficult role of an aspiring young Carole King-type songwriter trying to get the attention of Alan Freed. Every week on NBC’s Saturday Night Live millions of people watch in hypnotized hilarity as Laraine fulfills her role as the heir of Imogene Coca and Carol Burnett. In 1972 she joined Groundlings, an L.A.-based improvisational group.įrom these humble beginnings Laraine Newman has become the sex/comedy symbol of a generation, a peer of such mighty entertainers as John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and Bill Murray. Later she studied mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris and took classes in theater at the California Institute of the Arts. Laraine Newman’s first job as a paid performer came when she was a teenager she appeared in a summer theater program in the parks of her native Los Angeles. Newman’s birthday March 2, we’re republishing it below. From the July, 1978 issue of High Times comes an interview with Laraine Newman by Harry Wasserman and Carol Ryder.
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