His golf course, Pedernales Cut ’N Putt (“No shoes, no shirt, no problem”), is nearby. Down a dirt road, there’s an Old West town he had built for his 1986 film Red Headed Stranger. He picked the spot in the late Seventies, laying four rocks where he wanted the foundation built. Nelson’s house is a cedar log cabin, 35 miles from Austin, with a sweeping panoramic view of Hill Country. Willie Nelson photographed in Spicewood, Texas on March 15th, 2019, by James Minchin III James Minchin III for Rolling Stone Had a friend of mine that said a bale fell on him and hurt him pretty bad, though.” “I don’t know anybody that’s ever died from smoking pot. He pauses for a second, before telling a joke he’s told a thousand times. “It’s nice to watch it being accepted - knowing you were right all the time about it: that it was not a killer drug,” says Nelson. Years before weed became legal, he spoke about the medical benefits and economic potential of weed if it were taxed and the profits were put toward education. “You know, if I start jerking or shaking or something, don’t give me no more weed. “I’m kind of the canary in the mine, if people are wondering what happens if you smoke that shit a long time,” he says. But look at him now: Still playing 100 shows a year, still writing songs, still curious about the world. He has been jailed for weed, and made into a punchline for weed. Before Snoop or Cheech and Chong or Woody Harrelson, there was Willie. In addition to being the world’s most legendary country artist, Willie Nelson might also be the world’s most legendary stoner. Listen to an audio version of this story below: “You can use ice water, which helps cool it off,” Annie says. So not a ton . . . but he is Willie Nelson.” Annie recently bought Nelson an expensive version of a gravity bong - a fixture of high school house parties, which can shoot an entire bowl of weed into your lungs in one hit. Nelson says he stays high “pretty much all the time.” (“At least I wait 10 minutes in the morning,” Keith Richards has said.) His routine, Annie says, is to “take a couple of hits off the vape and then, an hour or two later, he might want a piece of chocolate. “He’s super-generous,” she says, “and if there’s somebody around, he’ll want to offer it and do it with them to make them feel comfortable.” He turns 86 this spring and has a history of emphysema, so Annie, who’s been with Willie for 33 years, tries to get him to look out for his lungs, especially on show days. Nelson’s wife, Annie, setting down a cup of coffee on a DVD case working as a coaster in front of him, speaks up. Willie Nelson is sitting on a couch at his home, a modest cabin that overlooks his 700 acres of gorgeous Texas Hill Country, when he reaches into his sweatshirt and produces a small, square vaporizer, takes a hit and exhales slowly.
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