Cooking dope isn't exactly revolutionary, but it does make a welcome change to spliffs.
To the "spliff bunker," a studio cave he would regularly construct to write, sleep and get high in, is added the "campfire," which is how the older Strummer nurtured neo-hippie communalism at festivals like Glastonbury and in his own rural backyards.
Even if I manage to cut out cigarettes from my life, I have another habit to face, because I prefer to smoke spliffs.
He pauses to relight his spliff, and warms to his theme.
When I was their age, I spent my Saturdays playing Madden and teaching myself how to roll spliffs.
Actually, I was only aware of one blunt being lit up, but as I wasn't expecting anybody to be spliffing at 10 in the morning (least of all a certain prominent comedienne. She wasn't like that when I knew her), as I said, more pot smoking than I'd anticipated.
London's premier 4/20 destination drew groups from every stoner tribe – West Country hippies, south London Millwall fans, endless teenage boys in New Era hats – to roll spliffs under umbrellas and talk about legalising the herb.
In his 20s he was a member of one of the biggest pop-R&B outfits and in his early 30s, he wrote and produced a Grammy-winning masterpiece one afternoon when he popped in to a studio to cadge a spliff.
While there are still ridiculous, Gulf State-style cases where people are being slapped with a criminal record for possession of barely enough cannabis to make a spliff, there is evidence to show that these three forces are not the only ones briefing their officers to ignore low-level drug offenses.
After all, I'd chosen to get into a car outside a club in the early hours of the morning, just planning to smoke a spliff, not expecting the doors to slam.
Twenty states plus Washington, DC, allow the consumption of pot for medical purposes; Washington state will soon join Colorado in licensing sales to those who simply want to enjoy a spliff.
