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Country music iconWillie Nelson, 86, has always been known as a passionate weeds. He has his ownmarijuana product lineHe actively participated in the legalization of marijuana and he wrote a lot of song lyrics celebrating all the things of cannabis. But now, the legendary musician has announced that he was no longer smoked because ofrespiratory issues.

"I abused my lungs a little in the past, if the breathing is a little more difficult these days and I have to be careful," Nelson said to Ksat TV'sPaul Venema duringrecent interview. The singer had to cancel his tour in early August due to respiratory problems, but when he recently reached, his long-standing publicist said he always used cannabis but stopped inhaling the smoke for the moment. She also said he has food and he wassteam The last time she saw it.

Nelson has already said hestarted smoking From six years growing in the rural community of Abbott, Texas.

"The cigarettes killed my mother, my father, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law - half of the people of my family were killed by cigarettes. I watched my father die after sleeping in bed with oxygen the last two years of his life, "wrote Nelson in his memory of 2012Roll me and smoke me when I die. "Cigarettes killed more people that all the wars put together, I think. But as my old boyfriendBilly Cooper The habit of saying: 'It's my mouth. I will carry coal from if I want. I think I would have been better with coal. "

When hestop smoking Cigarettes, Nelson had already taken smoking marijuana, which he actually said what helped him do the switch. "The day I stopped ... I took out the pack of cigarettes that I had just bought, opened it, threw away, rolled with 20 joints, replaced the 20 Chesterfields and pose the pack in My shirt pocket, where I'm always kept my cigarettes, "he writes." Becausehalf of the habitFor me, went to get and clarify something. "

In April 2019, he saidRolling stone May the weed "saved life" because he kept it "want to kill people". But now, it changes its air, because being able to make a priority. Nelson is not ready to leave the scene or the road - just for now.

"I like the bus," he told Ksat TV. "It's my house."

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