In the mid-'90s, film star Woody Harrelson suddenly was seen climbing redwoods to protest logging and wearing hemp clothes to protest marijuana Prohibition. The same year (1996) he was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Hustler publisher in The People vs. Larry Flynt, Harrelson was arrested in Kentucky for planting hemp seeds.

At first, the actor (he's also been in such films as Natural Born Killers, White Man Can't Jump, A Scanner Darkly and Semi-Pro), wanted to separate industrial hemp from recreational marijuana - he appeared on the cover of High Times donned in a hemp shirt, sans joint or bud - but he finally outed himself as a active toker at the Seattle Hempfest in 2001 when he told the large crowd, "I recently decided to stop smoking, but I thought more about it and decided I didn't want to be a quitter!"

Harrelson narrated Ron Mann's pot-doc Grass and then Mann filmed Harrelson in Go Further, which documents Harrelson's lifestyle that includes raw foods, yoga, biodiesel, bicycling and, of course, hemp. He was the keynoye speaker at the NORML Conference in 2003.

Born in Texas on July 23, 1961, Harrelson now spends most of time in Maui, where he lives and undoubtedly smokes the best kona buds the islands have to offer. He's married to Laura Louie. They have three daughters - Deni, Zoe and Makani.

In 2008, he co-starred with fellow Top CelebStoners Matthew McConaughey and Willie Nelson in the stoner flick, Surfer, Dude.

In 2009. Harrelson appeared in the The Messenger, 2012 and Zombieland. He won the Independent Spirit award and received his second Oscar nomination for his role as Capt. Tony Stone in The Messenger.

Harrelson wore a hemp suit to the Oscars and appears in the new documentary, Hempsters: Plant the Seed.

He co-stars with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis in Friends with Benefits, opening July 25.

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