Did Harry Potter Really Say “I Love Weed”?
Did Daniel Radcliffe, the actor best known for playing Harry Potter on the silver screen, really say “I love weed” at a party in London? The British media are all over the story, as reported in the Telegraph:
Draco Malfoy has leapt into the drugs storm surrounding Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe defending his on-screen arch-enemy.
Actor Tom Felton, who plays the evil wizard in the movies spoke out about the rumours that co-star Radcliffe used cannabis.
Radcliffe was allegedly pictured inhaling from a rolled up cigarette at a party earlier this month.
A fellow reveller at the gathering said that he overheard the 20-year-old actor declare “I love weed” at a private house party in North London.
But Felton came to the defence of his wizard friend when he appeared at an NEC exhibition…
J. K. Rowling Snubbed by Bush White House for Promoting Witchcraft
Think Progress reports:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civil award, and is given to individuals who have contributed to: 1) the security or national interests of the United States, 2) world peace, or 3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
In his new book, Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor, former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals how politicized the revered Presidential Medal of Freedom became during the Bush administration.
Latimer writes that administration officials objected to giving author J.K. Rowling the Presidential Medal of Freedom because her writing “encouraged witchcraft” (p. 201):
This was the same sort of narrow thinking that led people in the White House to actually object to giving the author J.K. Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged withcraft.
