Seth Rogen admitted that it would be ‘very difficult’ for him to live without marijuana after smoking the drug helped his low-level OCD and Tourettes.
Speaking while on the cover of the May issue of British GQ, the 38-year-old actor said people were “still weird” about cannabis, even though it has been legalized for medical use in 35 U.S. states.
Seth also reflected on the international incident that was triggered by his controversial 2014 film, The Interview, joking that if the film had been released under Donald Trump, he probably would have been sent to North Korea for ‘execution’.
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Cândido: Seth Rogen admitted that it would be ‘very difficult’ for him to live without marijuana after smoking the drug helped his low-level OCD and Tourettes
Seth explained that he smoked marijuana to help his obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourettes, which are low-level but more pronounced in his father.
Asked if he could live without the drug, he said: ‘It would be like saying that you can no longer wear clothes. It would be a real drag. It would be very difficult for me to do what I need to do in the world. ‘
“The only stigma with the herb is because it affects your brain. And people are weird about it. They don’t like to talk about brain health. ‘
Cândido: The actor said people ‘still find marijuana strange’, even though it has been legalized for medical use in 35 U.S. states
Marijuana is currently legal for medical use in 35 states, including California, Nevada and Vermont, while 15 have also made the drug legal for recreational use.
Seth also confessed that between the ages of 13 and 23 he ‘drank whenever he could, without significantly disrupting his life’, but slowly began to question why he needed to drink so much.
He said, ‘Like, why am I getting drunk on these things and hating me the next day? And I think I realized that they had lied about alcohol and that it held a place in society for the wrong reasons.
‘After I became more comfortable using other drugs that were more stigmatized and without worrying about damage in terms of anyone’s perception of me, there was a point where I realized that I just need to be comfortable taking a quarter of a molly pill. [MDMA] at that party and don’t drink and have a lot better fun.
Shocking: Seth also reflected on the incident triggered by his 2014 film, The Interview, joking that if the film was released during Donald Trump’s presidency it would have been “executed”
‘Or eating a little bit of mushrooms on this thing or having a [weed] lollipop. The next day I don’t have a hangover. I am not throwing up. It is much better for me … In fact, it would be better for you to take a dose of acid than to drink it.
After the release of his autobiography, Seth Rogen’s Yearbook, the Lion King star also reflected on the release of The Interview, which sparked great controversy when it was released in 2014.
The film shows Seth and James Franco as a producer and TV presenter sent to North Korea to kill Kim Jong-Un, on the pretext that they are traveling to the country for an interview with him.
The controversy led Sony Pictures to delay the release of the film and to reissue the scenes, and most movie theaters refused to display the image, leading it to be launched for online digital rentals and limited screenings.
See the full story in the May issue of British GQ available via digital download and newsstands Thursday, April 1
Barack Obama, who was president of the United States at the time, did much to try to defuse tensions with the North Korean government about the film, and Seth admitted that if Donald Trump had been in the White House, he may not have been so lucky.
He said: ‘We would have been f ** king sent to North Korea! Men reportedly showed up, threw me in a van, threw me in the back of a cargo plane and I would have parachuted down in Pyongyang to be executed. I can’t even imagine! ‘
Looking back at the film, which he also wrote and co-directed, he added: ‘Well, mostly that many comedians have the feeling that they are involved in some kind of controversy, in quotes, but none of that was controversial.
‘They experienced a hypothetical controversy of people getting mad at them on Twitter. The president did not give a press conference about the controversy.
“There were no books, documentaries and classes at universities dedicated to radioactive fallout.”
See the full report in the May issue of British GQ available for digital download and on newsstands on Thursday, April 1st.