The Champ
Insight into the life of Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo, who has turned himself into a movie icon by playing bad-ass bad guys (along with a few family-friendly roles in the Spy Kids franchise), seems to often cross paths with cannabis—either creatively or philosophically. In a 2011 interview with Prison Legal News, Trejo criticized the War on Drugs and said he supported legalizing the plant. “But the reality is, and I’m not an advocate of legalizing drugs, I wis
Insight into the life of Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo, who has turned himself into a movie icon by playing bad-ass bad guys (along with a few family-friendly roles in the Spy Kids franchise), seems to often cross paths with cannabis—either creatively or philosophically. In a 2011 interview with Prison Legal News, Trejo criticized the War on Drugs and said he supported legalizing the plant. “But the reality is, and I’m not an advocate of legalizing drugs, I wish they’d legalize marijuana. It’s like, f@*k it, it’s OK.” In the interview, Trejo shares the same sentiments that many of us feel: no one should be thrown in jail for a plant.
On the creative front, cannabis figures in Trejo’s filmography. His production company, Trejo 4.0 Productions, was behind 2004’s High Hopes, which was acquired by Maple Pictures/Lionsgate Canada. The film tells the story of a group of Hollywood hopefuls that decide to steal cannabis from the FBI in an effort to finance a movie.
One film to definitely check out if you want to know the full struggle of this thug-turned-drug-counselor-turned-actor, is Champion: the documentary of the life of Danny Trejo.
