Robert Mitchum, arguably the coolest actor to ever hit Hollywood, probably had the place pegged correctly, if this particular story is true.
It seems the late actor was quite the marijuana smoker early in his career. In the late 1940s, he was arrested for possessing the dreaded weed and did a stint in jail. Upon his release, a reporter asked him to give his assessment of what jail was like.
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