Influential black cannabis users

Cab Calloway - Reefer Man. In the 1933 film, International House: D44pyeEvhcQ Check out the hair action! YouTube link. Lyrics. "Why, that cat's still high."

s9FZMHNhJ80 Youtube link. Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit (lyrics at that link). Strange Fruit is still a song for today. The Guardian. "On the last day of 1999, Time magazine selected Strange Fruit as its choice for the best song of the passing century. ... Released in 1939, the record eventually sold over a million copies and became one of the most influential songs of all time,..." Like many musicians of her time Billie Holiday used marijuana and other drugs, and suffered due to the growing drug war. Times are worse today in some ways. See Jim Crow, and search for info on the drug war and modern-day Jim Crow. See Race, ethnicity, and the drug war.