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Louis Armstrong smoked cannabis through most of his career.

He called it medicine. He still played around 300 concerts a year. Extraordinary discipline. One of the greatest musicians in history.

The stereotype says if you use it, you don't do anything.

Reality is more nuanced than that.

Episode 3, from Smoke Signals, 14:08.


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