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Ronstadt’s reserved detail, however, doesn’t detract from the story, but rather sets her apart in a way from her friends and acquaintances who experimented with drugs or suffered from overuse of alcohol. She clearly admits to her “hippy” leanings, but she succinctly puts to rest any rumors of personal drug use with the humorous quote from Janet Stark, her friend and long-time assistant: “When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.” There is almost a third-person detachment that makes for a better book.
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Linda Ronstadt recalls rock heyday when many performers were high on the charts
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By CONFIDENTIAL
BY MARIANNE GARVEY, BRIAN NIEMIETZ AND LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT |
OCT 26, 2013 AT 2:00 AM
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.
