In the late '90s, film star Woody Harrelson suddenly could be 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 appeared in Natural Born Killers, White Man Can't Jump, A Scanner Darkly and Semi-Pro), wanted to separate industrial hemp from smokeable 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 daily toker at the NORML Conference in 2003.

Harrelson narrated Ron Mann's pot-doc Grass and then Mann filmed Harrelson in Go Further, which documents Harrelson's lifestyle that includes raw food, yoga, biodiesel, bicycling and, of course, hemp. He's also spoken at the Seattle Hempfest.

Harrelson spends most of time in Maui, where he lives and undoubtedly smokes the best kona buds the islands have to offer.

Pic: Woody wearing hemp

More Woody:  

On hemp (and marijuana)

Leaves of grass

Bill Maher wants his bong back

Gathering of the CelebStoners

In Peru with Owen Wilson

At the beach with McConaughey

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