Watch Zach Galifianakis smoke a joint on live television

Stoners, you have a new hero, and his name is Zach Galifianakis. On Friday, during a conversation about Proposition 19 on Bill Maher's talk show "Real Time," the "Hangover" star said he thought people's opposition to legalizing marijuana might be due to the fact that the drug was still considered taboo. Then he did his part  to make it a little less taboo by pulling out what appeared to be a joint on live television. The crowd cheered as he lighted it, smoked it and passed it to conservative Republican Margaret Hoover, who smelled it and exploded into shocked laughter. We think the "Real Time" discussions would get way more fun if guests got high together more often.

-- Melissa Maerz

Comments

[Michael]

This is the mentality of the pro Prop 19 people. They refuse to deal in facts. They refuse to deal in reality. How could anyone with a working brain be convinced to vote for a proposition that strips away the rights of Calfornians to keep marijuana smoke out of their homes, and marijuana impaired workers out of the workplace, by watching someone get high on TV? The "idiot box" has reached a new low.

[WOI]

@ Michael:
There is NOT A SINGLE WORD in Prop 19 that "strips away the rights of Calfornians to keep marijuana smoke out of their homes" or anything remotely similar to this. Quit spreading asinine lies.

As for "marijuana impaired workers," the proposal is simply designed to prevent someone from getting fired for smoking a joint while not on the job - as long as the joint does not negatively affect the work performance of the employee. The text EXPLICITLY recognizes "the existing right of an employer to address consumption that actually impairs job performance by an employee." There are tests for that, ya know! Furthermore, if you have voluntarily agreed not to consume weed while working for a certain employer, and you do, you can still be terminated, not for smoking week, but for being in breach of contract.

If there is anyone who "refuse[s] to deal in facts," it is the paranoid fear-mongering liars like yourself.

[Galaxy420*]

We are in California. Zack is awesome. Even if prop 19 doesn't pass, it will soon. Eventually the old follies will die out and the young will have numbers in the future.
I voted yes on prop 19. And so what if Zack smoked a joint? Who gives a flying F. It is his body, he can do what he wants. No one has the right to govern what he chooses to do.
Thanks Zack. Apparently, the old in the country have forgot what this country was founded on. FREEDOM.
Zack is a genius.
YES ON PROP 19
Because it is hypocritical that alcohol, cigarettes and prescription pills are all legal, and all kill more people than marijuana ever has or will.

[Andy J.]

Zack is my new found hero, and Michael you sound like a fooled lil tool! Lost in this politically incorrect world! I used to smoke, but had to quit just because of people like you! I am ashamed of this country keeping the laws which were all made under false pretence! Propaganda all lies thought up by fools. How can you keep these laws active now that the truth has come out! We will legalize someday whether its now or ten yrs because my generation has done it, loved it, and everyone knows that its pointless to fight it! It's time for us to get this country back on track! We need to start by legalization, then tax it. And I personally guarantee it to be a safer, friendlier atmosphere all over the US. Do I need to go into how much money would be saved or how much could potentially be made. Sounds like a sure fire way to start paying off our country's debt. But what do I know I'm just a 24 yr old punk right? I can get so drunk I can't walk or talk, but I have never once seen anyone even come close to gettin that stoned. When u over smoke you tend to eat then take a nap. Now tell me Michael what's better eating and sleeping or wrapping your car around a pole after a late night at the tavern? People like you make me angry, someone so blind to the real truth, open them lost lil eyes and try sayin once that maybe you've been mis- informed. Everyone has but that's what's great about being a human, we make our own choices and believe what we feel is right. Just because a bunch of power hungry ignorant fools lied, lied, and lied to get laws passed, don't mean they are right.