I'm still trying to wrap my head around Kevin Smith becoming a stoner ..
1: before, during and immediately after directing cult classic film 'CLERKS' .. he wasn't a stoner. He played one onscreen as Silent Bob, half of the duo Jay and Bob who sold weed outside of the QuickStop.
2: Jay wasn't a stoner during that film: Jay was a heroin addict (maybe he also smoked the odd spliff during this time. I don't know).
3: During all, of this and to date, Kevin Smith was clean of doing any dugs. We're led to believe.
4: Jay wasn't able to star in any way in 'Jersey Girl' because Jay was, at the time, on the run from the police for driving with a deployed airbag. Jay gets sent to rehab. The airbag thing gets a jokey mention in CLERKS 2
5: Fast forward to recent(ish) times and Jay is 100% clean (and I actually believe him) but, and here's the reason I posted this in this thread, Kevin Smith has decided to take up smoking pot ? .. fair play to him and all but after detoxing his best mate over about a decade or two, why has he decided to start getting high for the first time ever ?