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Schwarzenegger: `Marihuana ist nicht eine Droge, es ist ein Blatt'
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Durch Ciar Byrne
Genügende Probleme mit den wilden Feuern bereits, gegenüberstellend, die Kalifornien gefegt haben, kann der Gouverneur Arnold Schwarzenegger des Zustandes in eine neue Reihe getreten sein, indem er behauptet, daß Marihuana nicht eine Droge ist. In einem Interview mit GQ Zeitschrift, der Hollywood Stern drehte den Regler von Kalifornien beharrt: „Ich nahm keine Drogen.“
Der Interviewer, ehemalig Täglicher Spiegel Herausgeber Piers Morgan, gesetzt ihm zum Stern, dem er zugelassen hatte, Marihuana in der Vergangenheit zu rauchen. In Pumping Iron, the bodybuilding documentary which launched his career 30 years ago, he was shown taking a drag on a spliff.
“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,” said Austrian-born Mr Schwarzenegger, 60. “My drug was pumping iron, trust me,” he added.
When George Butler’s critically acclaimed 1977 documentary Pumping Iron was re-released in 2002, before Mr Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, he was unconcerned by the scene showing him smoking marijuana, saying – in a pointed reference to former US president Bill Clinton who claimed never to have inhaled: “I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that’s what it was in the Seventies, that’s what I did. I have never touched it since.” Mr Schwarzenegger said that it was not necessarily a matter of public interest whether politicians had taken class-A drugs.
He said: “What would you rather have? A politician taking the stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?”
The Republican governor, renowned for his green policies, said Washington had not done enough on the environment. “So we pick up the slack and show the rest of the world America is not just Washington. There are 600 mayors in America who have joined the Kyoto treaty. For us, it is very important that America gets back the great reputation it once had.”
He said: “I think we have to do everything we can as a country to get out of the Iraq war, and to take a lead on the environment.”
Despite his insistence that the US must finish the war in Iraq, Mr Schwarzenegger included Tony Blair in a list of the greatest leaders in history, alongside Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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