Chelsea Does

I'm fucked up.

- You are? - Yeah.

I'm fucked up now.

Yeah. Ugh! Oh, my God.

Oh, the room's dizzy. I'm so dizzy.

Are you having bad thoughts?

Yeah.

Ugh.

I want it to be over. 'Cause it just doesn't feel good.

Edible weed is the best. It's the best.

I'm gonna get really high.

I got my weed card just for you.

- You did? For this dinner? - Yeah.

I went to a shady weed place in the Valley.

And my guy was like, "Tell me your symptoms in two words or less."

And they have a list of what's okay symptoms and what's not.

I go, "Uh, headaches." Then I go, "And..." And he goes, "No."

- So, which dish is this? - This is our tomato bisque soup.

A tomato bisque soup. Which weed is in this one?

- OG Kush. - Okay.

- Are there any drugs... - That I haven't done?

Yeah, that you're almost scared to do?

Yeah, I'm scared to do ayahuasca.

- I mean, I'm not really scared. - Yeah.

But I've read a lot about it, and it intrigues me.

I would be scared to shoot heroin.

But if it were legal, I would shoot heroin with a doctor,

giving me a safe amount, so I could just experience the intensity.

I like to experience every possible experience that I can have.

I just can't believe that weed isn't legal absolutely everywhere.

Especially when it makes people so friendly and nice.

- That's a good drug. - It is.

Can we get high and go to the beach?

"This is warm and feels great."

To me, that's my experience in Ecstasy when I'm at the beach.

You like it?

She once had sex with this guy when we were waiting tables.

You had to preface it with this.

This was my first time doing Ecstasy, and he had really rough skin,

and we made out for, like, ever. And then it got infected because...

That was disgusting, actually.

- I remember. - It was really disgusting.

You were walking around in shame. 'Cause then you come down...

There have been some highs where you get super horny, and there are some times...

Like, the last times I've done Molly, I'm not like...

You don't get touchy-feely. Molly's not as touchy...

Why are you laughing at me?

I just had a funny memory come back from the last time we did it.

- Not everybody knew we were doing it. - Right, right.

You got up and straddled me.

- And kissed my ear. - I did?

You're not touchy-feely at all.

And then, when you got off me, and a guy was like...

"What the fuck is going on here?"

I don't have, like, a favorite high.

Like, all highs, they're kind of equivalent.

Yeah, but the next day with weed is so much easier.

But you don't have the hangover.

I've seen you work out at 7:00 a.m. the next day after partying all night.

I am actually in a better mood after I've had a night of drinking.

Like, when I would go on a cleanse and not drink

for eight or ten days... It's awful.

That's true. There was that little period

where you were super healthy and it was like...

- I remember that. - Yeah!

They'd walk out and they'd say, "How's it going in there?"

"She's on a cleanse." "Oh, fuck!"

I was really anti-drugs growing up, which is obviously ironic.

My parents didn't drink.

My dad, he rarely drank. My mom was a lightweight.

It was like, anybody who smoked pot, I was really judgmental.

It's like, "How can you do that? That's terrible."

And then I, you know, tried it and was like, "Oh, wait."

I remember we just couldn't stop laughing. Like, we couldn't...

Like, my cheeks were hurting, and that feeling to me...

It's my favorite feeling in the world. So I smoked a lot of pot.

I did a ton of acid in my senior year, and we'd just, like, dance all night long.

And for somebody like me who has no rhythm,

like, you need acid to dance. Like, I needed it.

Like, I took my SATs on acid,

which didn't turn out so well for me or my SAT score, but...

I remember thinking I was quicker, I was faster, I got it.

Like, I got... You know, I was funnier.

So, as a creative person,

are you a creative person who thinks that it's mind-expanding to do drugs?

Yes. I like drugs.

I think they're good for the imagination.

I think they're good for the thought process.

So, what do you think about sobriety?

- I think you said you don't... - Boring.

...trust people who are sober or something?

- No, I do. I mean... - That's a joke?

I have a lot of friends that are sober because of AA.

I think rehab sounds like a big black bummer.

I mean, I'm very aware that I, you know, drink too much.

People would say, "Oh, you drink too much."

For me, I don't feel a lot of guilt about that. I think that's fun.

I've always been attracted to being bad. Like, I like being bad. It's fun.

So you don't think you're glorifying alcohol or...

I glorify the lifestyle that I lead. I definitely glorify it.

I think it's... it's glorifiable.

Marijuana is so sexy right now.

This is a plant that's gonna make this country rich again.

Colorado has been raking in profits.

And investors have been piling into

the marijuana market in droves.

I think it's probably going to be the biggest growth business

over the next ten years.

Welcome to the future Amsterdam of the West.

My clientele is very upscale.

We are members of what we refer to as high society.

In fact, we just designed a 14-karat gold and pavé diamond vaporizer.

Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson

is getting in on the pot business, complete with his own brand.

You order an ounce, you can get a full Nelson.

Half ounce is a half Nelson.

Willie is 81 years old and he's, uh, still flying high,

- as they say. - Yeah.

- Hey, there! - Hey, how you doing?

- You look cute. - Thank you very much.

- Hi. Enjoying the rain. - How you doing?

- Hey, there, how are you? - Hey!

- This is Annie, my wife. - Nice to meet you.

This is a nice little pad you got yourself here.

How's your weed company?

Well, we're just kinda kicking it off, but it seems to be fairly, uh, popular.

Your publicist was telling me

that you guys have really good weed to go to sleep.

Yeah, well, I think there's some experts there, you know, trying to figure out,

"This weed does this, this weed does that."

I'm trying to help test as much as I can.

- Are you? - Yeah.

I think I read somewhere that you said it cured your addiction to alcohol,

or helped you with your addiction to alcohol and cigarettes.

I had been smoking a lot of cigarettes, and so I decided to quit.

And every time I wanted a cigarette, I'd take a hit off the weed.

Uh, I didn't get much done.

But I quit cigarettes.

- Have you ever done ayahuasca? - No.

I'm going to Peru to do ayahuasca.

It's supposed to be one of those transformative experiences,

where you can look outside yourself, and you kind of...

People say that it changes their life.

Oh, great. I'll go with you.

- Yeah, you could come. - Yeah.

Um, a lot of people smoke pot when they do ayahuasca.

Do you have any Willie Reserve that I can try?

I mean, that's kind of...

- You're the curator. - We can test it.

That's one that's a potential.

So, these two... You're coming out now with a line of weed, right?

And we don't know what it is yet.

And so how many people do you have working at this company?

I don't know. There's, uh, you know, there's a few gals up in Colorado.

I call them the High Women.

- Did you do a lot of other drugs? - Well, I have, but I'm not now.

Did you do LSD? You must have done that, right?

I've tried it.

- Right. - But, no, I didn't like that.

Uh, it lasted too long.

I guess if it had lasted 40 minutes, it may have been okay.

- But 12 hours is too goddamn... - That is the problem with LSD.

You're like, "What the fuck? Still fucking high, like, a day later."

I ate too many cookies one time, and I thought I was dying.

I could feel the flesh falling off the bones.

Yeah, yeah, 'cause you get... every hour, you get higher.

And then you think, "It's not hitting me, it's not hitting me,"

and then you double-down and then you're... It's like a bath.

And has there ever been a pot you've smoked that you didn't like?

I've said this before. Pot's like sex.

Some's better than others, but it's all good.

- Like pizza? - Yeah. Sort of, yeah.

Do you think that this is gonna be your legacy, besides music,

that you've brought marijuana to the masses?

Oh, I think it might be one of the funny ones.

- It is good, right? - Yeah.

It's a cool way for people to remember you.

- Why not? Why not? - Yeah!

Do you get stoned before you go on stage?

- Probably, yes. I just did. - That's the right answer.

So you're a neuroscientist, so what does that mean, exactly?

So I basically study the brain and its relationship to behavior.

I do things like fMRI, like neuroimaging.

So we can see in real time, different types of brain activation.

We also do experiments with drugs, so we give people different drugs

and see how it affects their brain and their behavior.

So, I took a 5-hour Energy drink with one thing of Adderall,

- which is five milligrams, I guess? - Okay.

- Is it five milligrams? - Yeah.

So why did you want to... What's your interest in drugs that...

'Cause I just think everybody abuses so many things.

I certainly have, you know.

I've abused so many drugs or sleeping pills or...

But I think it's important to just kinda demonstrate, like,

what's good for you, what's not good for you.

Not to mix certain things.

So, how are you feeling right now? Like, just physiologically, first.

I feel a little bit, like, high, like, I'm hyper-focusing.

Like, I'm like, blah.

If you put your hands out like this, are you shaking a little?