Linda Ronstadt: 'All Drugs Should Be Legal'

Linda Ronstadt: 'All Drugs Should Be Legal' Dec 2, 2022 20:27:54 GMT

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Linda Ronstadt during her hit-making heyday in the ’70s

Linda Ronstadt, who did her share of cocaine as the leading female rock singer of the '70s, thinks marijuana and other drugs should be legalized.

"People who smoke pot are generally peaceful," she told the Daily News in 2013. "I think it should be legal. I think all drugs should be legal, just like alcohol. You take the money out of it, and suddenly there's not going to be a big drug trade because all of a sudden the drugs will be cheap. The whole idea of the drug cartels and the violence surrounding them will be gone. We can tax it and it will be a huge tax revenue, and I think it will be easier to educate people. There will be less HIV from infected needles, less hepatitis C; all that stuff could be controlled for the better."
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"I think (pot) should be legal. I think all drugs should be legal, just like alcohol. You take the money out of it, and suddenly there's not going to be a big drug trade because all of a sudden the drugs will be cheap."

Speaking of her past use, she said, "It was going on all around me. I didn't feel prudish about it. As long as you could still play, I didn't care what you did, but if it impaired your ability to play, out you go."

In a 1975 interview with Rolling Stone, Ronstadt admitted: "I had to have my nose cauterized twice. I think they shot sodium nitrate up there. I'm okay now. I don't put anything up my nose anymore, except occasionally my finger."
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In the current documentary, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, she recalls about the drug scene in the '70s: “The kind of paranoia that was introduced by drugs was so destructive in our overall ability to communicate with each other and it really saddened me. Then, at some point, we all stopped."
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Known for hit songs like "You're No Good," "Blue Bayou" and "When Will I Be Loved," Ronstadt switched gears in the '80s and started performing jazz and Mexican music. Sadly, she can no longer sing due to her suffering from Parkinson's, which was diagnosed in 2013.. "No one can sing with Parkinson’s disease," she sighed. "No matter how hard you try."
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This article was originally published on October 26, 2013 and updated on January 2, 2020.

Linda Ronstadt: 'All Drugs Should Be Legal' Dec 21, 2022 10:08:35 GMT

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Alcohol had worse effects than marijuana on performers when she was touring, Linda Ronstadt recalls. (Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

She's a nominee for the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Linda Ronstadt could've partied with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during her 1960s and '70s heyday. Promoting her new book "Simple Dreams: A Rock and Roll Memoir," Ronstadt told Confidenti@l she didn't need all three components of the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll experience.

"It was going on all around me," she said about intoxicants. "I didn't feel prudish about it. As long as you could still play, I didn't care what you did, but if it impaired your ability to play, out you go. Or if you turned into an ugly gorgon, I didn't like that so much."

The singer said alcohol tended to be worse for the people around her.

"People who smoke pot are generally very peaceful," she said. "I think it should be legal. I think all drugs should be legal just like alcohol."

The "You're No Good" singer clarifies that she's including all drugs in her argument.

"The same number of people will be doing it, but they won't have to steal your TV to get it," says the 67-year-old Ronstadt.

"You take the money out of it and suddenly there's not going to be a big drug trade because all of a sudden the drugs will be cheap," she says. "The same number of people will be going into a nod on your sofa if you let those kinds of people around. The whole idea of the drug cartels and the violence surrounding them will be gone."

Ronstadt, who was raised in Tucson, Ariz., where her brother Peter spent a decade as chief of police, is no stranger to places where cartels bring drugs into the country.

"We can tax it and it'll be a huge tax revenue, and I think it will be easier to educate people. There would be less HIV from infected needles, less hepatitis C; all that stuff could be controlled for the better," she said.

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