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HOW DOWNEY, JR. FIRST CAUGHT DISNEY’S EYE

Opening with a joke during his Disney Legends awards speech, Robert Downey, Jr. talked about smoking weed at Disneyland.
Marijuana Moment

  • “The very first time I went to Disneyland, I was transported to another place—within moments of being arrested,” Downey said. “I was brought to a surprisingly friendly processing center, given a stern warning, and returned to, if memory serves, one very disappointed group chaperone.” Must be nice.
  • Before he was cast as Ironman, the great actor—whose director father allowed him to use pot at age 6–was equally famous for doing super-heroic amounts of bad drugs.