Rally ’Round the Flag

Chalk one up for the green team! Musician, blogger, punk rock icon Henry Rollins has come clean about his advocacy for medical cannabis. The former Black Flag frontman has been a weekly columnist for LA Weekly and, following the legalizations in Washington and Colorado, Rollins felt it was his obligation to let his readers know where he stood. He wrote, “Like millions of Americans, I have no interest in smoking marijuana but can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up. I don’t think it is a ‘gateway’ drug any more than alcohol . . . The president and the attorney general could turn over a new leaf in America and leave all matters Mary Jane to the states as they see fit.” Rollins further went on to voice his disapproval for the DEA, and joked about the incoming economic boom for pizza places. Rollins has been open about his opinions in the past, supporting LGBT rights, hunger relief and pacifism.