Morgan Freeman Makes Impassioned Plea for Legalization of Marijuana

Hollywood's favorite narrator Morgan Freeman is a longtime marijuana user. And in a new interview has opened up about being an advocate for legalizing marijuana, because according to him, that 'pot is very useful'.

Freeman, 77,  was turned on to the drug by his first wife 'many years ago'.

'I'll eat it, drink it, smoke it, snort it! This movement is really a long time coming, and it's getting legs -longer legs,' he said.

The Oscar-winning film legend was in a car accident seven years ago, in which he suffered injuries that still cause pain, according to the Daily Beast.  He was driving through Mississippi when his 1997 Nissan Maxima skidded off the road and flipped several times.

 Emergency responders rescued Freeman from the crash using the Jaws of Life, and he was taken to

the hospital with a shattered left shoulder, arm and elbow, and nerves had to be repaired with a four-hour surgery. Freeman still wears a yellow compression glove on his left hand - which he hasn't regained full use of - to prevent blood pooling.

Pointing to the glove, Freeman told the Daily Beast that 'Marijuana has many useful uses'.  He said:

 'I have fibromyalgia pain in this arm, and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana. They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, "Legalize it across the board!" 

And what negative effects does it have? Look at Woodstock 1969. They said, "We're not going to bother them or say anything about smoking marijuana," and not one problem or fight. Then look at what happened in '99,' he says, referencing the less marijuana-friendly 30th-anniversary event, which resulted in riots and arrests.'

Despite his hand injury, Freeman is still a shining star in Hollywood, having been in at least four films in 2013 and 2014. His first film appearance of 2015, Last Knights, debuted in April.