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ギリシャのロマ居住区で発見された謎の白人少女マリア。この事件をめぐって、ロマに対する差別が助長されるのではないかという懸念が広がっています。ロマをめぐっては、フランスで15歳のロマの少女が学校にいるところを警察に拘束され、コソボに強制送還された出来事が波紋を広げています。
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UK(イギリス)版スプラッシュ 10月24日(01 of09)
\'LIKE NAZI GERMANY\' 「ナチスドイツのようだ」\n\nギリシャのロマ居住区で発見された謎の白人少女マリア。この事件をめぐって、ロマに対する差別が助長されるのではないかという懸念が広がっています。アイルランドにもロマのような移動生活民族がおり、「アイリッシュ・トラベラー」と呼ばれています。「アイリッシュ・トラベラー」の団体、「アイリッシュ・トラベラー・ムーブメント」のマシュー・ブリンドリー氏は「ロマへの偏見はナチスドイツのようだ」と批判しています。\n (credit:Huffington Post)
US(アメリカ)版スプラッシュ 10月24日(02 of09)
ATTACK OF THE DRONES: \'40 NEW ENEMIES\' PER STRIKE 無人戦闘機の攻撃：攻撃のたびに「40人の新しい敵を生み出している」\n\n2004年から07年までイエメンの大使代理を務めたナビール・クーリー氏が、「カイロ・レビュー」に寄稿し、「アメリカが無人戦闘機を使ってイエメンで殺戮を行うたびに、アメリカの敵となるアルカイダ要員を40人から60人作り出している」と批判しました。\n (credit:Huffington Post)
イタリア版スプラッシュ 10月24日(03 of09)
INGLESI E AMERICANI CI SPIANO イギリスとアメリカが我々をスパイしている\n\nエドワード・スノーデン氏のNSA（アメリカ国家安全保障局）内部告発をスクープしたグレン・グリーンウォルド記者がイタリアの週刊誌「エスプレッソ」に寄稿しました。「NSAはヨーロッパ各国政府でスパイ活動を行っている。もちろん、イタリア政府もだ」とグリーンウォルド記者は述べています。 (credit:Huffington Post)
カナダ版スプラッシュ 10月24日(04 of09)
UP UP UP アップ アップ アップ\n\nカナダの調査会社ナノス・リサーチ社による最新の世論調査で、カナダ自由党の支持が2009年の夏以来最高となりました。かつてはクレティエン、マーティン元首相時代に政権を担っていたカナダ自由党ですが、最近は党勢が衰え、野党第一党のザも新民主党に譲っていました。 (credit:Huffington Post)
スペイン版スプラッシュ 10月24日(05 of09)
ALEGRÍA TEMPORAL つかの間の喜び\n\nスペインの労働力調査が24日発表され、第３四半期の失業率がわずかに下落しました。フルタイムの雇用は20万7000人で、前四半期の16万9500人よりも5.3%アップしています。 (credit:Huffington Post)
ドイツ版スプラッシュ 10月24日(06 of09)
ABGEHÖRT VON \"FREUNDEN\" 「友情」にひび\n\nメルケル首相の私用電話がアメリカの諜報機関によって盗聴されていたことをハフポストドイツ版でも大きく取り上げています。記事のコメント欄には「9/11以降、アメリカは『危険な巨人』と化した」「メルケル首相が本当に盗聴されていなかったと今まで思っていたとしたら、もっと注意深くあるべきだったのでは？」「メルケル首相の反応が鈍いのが悲しい」と言った声が寄せられています。 (credit:Huffington Post)
フランス版スプラッシュ 10月24日(07 of09)
DEUX POIDS ２つの重み\n\nフランスでは現在税制改正の議論が進んでいます。「レッドブル」のような清涼飲料水に一缶あたり25セント、１リットルあたり１ユーロの税金をかけるというものです。今後は、チョコスプレッドの「ヌテラ」のような砂糖で作られた製品にまで課税対象が広がるかどうかも議論されそうです。 (credit:Huffington Post)
マグレブ（アフリカ北西部）版スプラッシュ 10月24日(08 of09)
ET MAINTENANT? さて？\n\nチュニジアでは、2013年2月6日に野党「民主愛国主義者運動」のベライード党首が何者かに暗殺される事件が発生しました。それから１年も経たない現在でも流血を伴う政治的危機から脱していません。10月24日から3日間、スィディ・ブジドでテロリストと見られる武装集団との衝突で死亡した国軍の6名の兵士を国民が追悼する日とすると、モンセフ・マルズーキ大統領が表明しました。 (credit:Huffington Post)
日本版スプラッシュ 10月24日(09 of09)
｢リベンジポルノ、現行法で対応できる｣\n\n恋人や配偶者との関係が破たんした人物が、腹いせに相手のわいせつな写真・動画などをネット上に流出させる「リベンジポルノ」。10月23日の参議院予算委員会で、谷垣禎一法相は民主党の櫻井充(さくらいみつる)議員の質問に答え、「我が国の現在の法制でも、ある程度想定される事案は大体、処理できる」と述べて、現行法で対応できるとして新しく規制をかけることへの慎重な立場を示しました。 (credit:Huffington Post)
【US版】無人戦闘機：飛行機の未来
Boeing Phantom Ray(01 of10)
Type: Military (U.S.)\r\n\r\nDescription: Boeing\'s stealth Phantom Ray took to the skies for the first time in April 2011. According to Boeing, the Phantom Ray can perform missions such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; suppression of enemy air defenses; and electronic attack.\r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: Unknown. This is a \"demonstrator\" so there will likely be a future variation of the Ray. (credit:Boeing)
General Atomics Predator Avenger(02 of10)
Type: Military (U.S.)\r\n\r\nDescription: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Predator Avenger C is a beast. According to the two-page brochure, the PAC is a \"Next-Generation Multi-mission ISR and Strike Aircraft\" and successor for the Predator B that can be stacked with a multitude of weaponry. \r\n\r\nDeployment: There is one demonstration craft currently in Afghanistan. (credit:General Atomics)
SOCOM Mini Drone Of Doom(03 of10)
Type: Military (U.S.)\r\n\r\nDescription: Yo dawg, I heard you like drones so I put a drone in your drone. One small deadly warhead-equipped mini-drone stuffed into another, to be launched from the main drone and remotely aimed at a target. \r\n\r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: This warhead-equiped micro-UAV could be flown by SOCOM in the skies by spring 2012. (credit:Getty Images)
Suicide Switchblade(04 of10)
Type: Military (USA)\r\n\r\nDescription: AeroVironment\'s Switchblade is meant to be a portable, rapid deployment, beyond line-of-sight, \"loitering munition\" that is a \"magic bullet.\"\r\n\r\nA bit of advice, AeroVironment: Don\'t describe a remote-controlled bomb as a \"loitering munition\" that you call \"Switchblade,\" as it conjures up images of 1950\'s-style greasers loitering on street corners, flipping open switchblades idly as they wait for their favorite gals. \r\n\r\nLuckily, greasers won\'t be in charge of flying Switchblades. They\'re to be controlled by infantry and according to the AeroVironment, \"Flying quietly at high speed the Switchblade delivers its onboard explosive payload with precision while minimizing collateral damage.\" \r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: Undisclosed. (credit:AeroVironment)
Firescout(05 of10)
Type: Military (U.S. Navy)\r\n\r\nDescription: Northrop Grumman describes the Firescout as a \"Transformational Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system provides unprecedented situation awareness and precision targeting support for U.S. Armed Forces of the future. The MQ-8B Fire Scout has the ability to autonomously take off and land on any aviation-capable warship and at prepared and unprepared landing zones in proximity to the soldier in contact.\"\r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: March 2013 (credit:Northrop Grumman)
Euro Hawk(06 of10)
Type: Military (German Ministry of Defense, purchased from Northrop Grumman)\r\n\r\nDescription: NG touts its Euro Hawk, built for German Ministry of Defense, as having a \"wingspan larger than a commercial airliner, endurance of more than 30 hours and a maximum altitude of more than 60,000 feet, EURO HAWK is an interoperable, modular and cost-effective replacement to the aging fleet of manned Breguet Atlantic aircraft, which have been in service since 1972 and will be retired in 2010.\"\r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: 2015, 2016 (PDF) (credit:Northrop Grumman)
Taranis(07 of10)
Type: Military (British)\r\n\r\nDescription: BAE System\'s Taranis (PDF) is aiming to \"Push the boundaries by providing advancements in low observability capability and autonomous mission systems operations demonstrating the feasibility and utility of UAVs.\" Such a statement starts to push the idea of fully autonomous flight from science fiction into science fact, though we\'re still a long way off from having an actual real debate on fully autonomous drones fighting our battles and flying our skies. \r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: TBD, test flights have been delayed to 2012. (credit:BAE Systems)
Boeing Phantom Eye(08 of10)
Type: Communications\r\n\r\nDescription: Boeing\'s hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye is a High Altitude Long Duration Craft designed to fly at 65,000 feet for up to four days. \r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: Unknown (credit:Boeing)
DARPA Vulture(09 of10)
Type: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)\r\n\r\nDescription: DARPA\'s description says the \"Vulture technology enables a re-taskable, persistent pseudo-satellite capability, in an aircraft package.\" Basically, DARPA is attempting to develop a super long duration craft capable of five year continuous flight. Think about that - the Vulture is intended to fly for up to five years continuously. If it were to launch this year it would be in the air for two Olympics. \r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: Unknown (credit:DARPA)
AVIATR: Drone To Fly Saturn's Moon(10 of10)
Type: Government Funded Space Exploration\r\n\r\nDescription: While the proposal probably won\'t go through for this mission, this is an aerial drone we can really get behind. AVIATR would be a long distance drone that would fly the skies of Saturn\'s moon Titan. \r\n\r\nPotential Deployment: Beyond 2020 (credit:Mike Malaska)
【ドイツ版】電話をかけるメルケル首相
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(01 of10)
\"Angela hier, wer stört?!\" - Ein Poster zeigt ein Bild der heutigen Kanzlerin mit einer tragbaren Telefonzelle.
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(02 of10)
\"Guck mal Peter, ich hab\' deinen Rekord bei \'Snake\' geknackt\" - Merkel erklärt Peter Ramsauer in einer Parlamentssitzung ihr neues Spiele-Handy
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(03 of10)
\"Gerade ausgepackt\" - Die Bundeskanzlerin präsentiert auf der CeBit ihr neues Lieblings-Bling-Bling-Handy.
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(04 of10)
\"pizza lieferservice berlin\" - Die Kanzlerin während einer konzentrierten Recherche im Parlament
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(05 of10)
\"Glitzer-Sticker waren ausverkauft\" - Trotzdem sieht das Kanzlerin-Handy schick geschmückt aus
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(06 of10)
\"Ruf später an, ich hab den Mann von der Bruni hier sitzen\" - Merkel und Sarkozy während einer wichtigen politischen Sitzung
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(07 of10)
\"Wow, jetzt kann ich mein Handy auch falsch herum halten\" - Angela Merkel und Arnold Schwarzenegger sind hin und weg von so viel Technk
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(08 of10)
\"Der Münte guckt mich die ganze Zeit so komisch an\" - Merkel neben dem ehemaligen Arbeitsminister Franz Müntefering
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(09 of10)
\"Ich find\'s auch lustig, aber ich versuche hier gerade zu telefonieren\" - Merkel neben dem ehemaligen italienischen Premierminister Romano Prodi
Angela Merkel und ihr Handy(10 of10)
\"Lass das mal, ich hab heute Bad Hair Day\" - Ein Unbekannter macht einen Schnappschuss von der Kanzlerin
【カナダ版】マリファナを試したことのある政治家
Rob Ford(01 of59)
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he has had his fair share of marijuana.\n\n\"Oh, yeah. I\'ve smoked a lot of it.\"\n\n\n (credit:CP)
Justin Trudeau(02 of59)
The federal Liberal leader opened up to HuffPost about his experience with marijuana in August.\n\n\"Sometimes, I guess, I have gotten a buzz, but other times no. I’m not really crazy about it.” (credit:CP)
Tom Mulcair(03 of59)
The Opposition leader\'s office told HuffPost this summer that Mulcair has smoked in the past but not since he was elected to office. Mulcair was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1994.\n\n\n (credit:CP)
Jim Flaherty(04 of59)
Said the Tory finance minister:\n\n\"Yeah, in my teenage years... a couple of times, I have to admit: I didn’t like it.\" (credit:CP)
Marc Garneau(05 of59)
The Liberal MP and Canada\'s first astronaut said he tried marijuana as a student in the 1970s in England. \n\n\"It\'s not my thing. I stopped because it wasn\'t doing anything for me.\" (credit:CP)
Kathleen Wynne(06 of59)
The premier of Ontario said she smoked pot decades ago.\n\n\"I have smoked marijuana but not for the last 35 years.\" (credit:CP)
Darrell Dexter(07 of59)
Said the premier of Nova Scotia: \n\n\"Like every other person I knew back in the \'70s when I went to university, some of whom are actually in this room, I would have tried it, the same as other people at that time.\" (credit:CP)
Christy Clark(08 of59)
Said the premier of British Columbia:\n\n\"I graduated from Burnaby South Senior Secondary in 1983 and there was a lot of that going on when I was in high school and I didn\'t avoid it all together.\" (credit:CP)
Tim Hudak(09 of59)
The leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario admitted he\'s puffed in the past.\n\n\"I was a normal kid, I had a normal upbringing, a normal life in university. I experimented from time to time with marijuana. It’s a long time ago in the past and in the grand scheme of things.\" (credit:CP)
Paul Martin(10 of59)
The former prime minister of Canada told CTV News:\n\n\"The answer is: I never smoked. I never smoked anything, but there was an earlier time, years ago, when (my wife) made some brownies and they did have a strange taste.\" (credit:CP)
Kim Campbell(11 of59)
The former prime minister admitted while running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives that she tried weed.\n\n\"And I inhaled the smoke.\" (credit:CP)
Dalton McGuinty(12 of59)
The former premier of Ontario said he experimented in his teens, but only twice. (credit:CP)
Brad Wall(13 of59)
The premier of Saskatchewan said he was an \"infrequent\" user back in university.\n\n\"It didn\'t really do anything for me, luckily, because for some, it does lead to other things.\"\n\n (credit:CP)
Snoop Dogg(14 of59)
The rapper\'s 18-year-old son, Corde Calvin Broadus, caused a stir when he shared this photo of him smoking with his famous weed-loving dad. (credit:Corde Calvin Broadus/Twitter)
Soulja Boy, Wiz Khalifa(15 of59)
Is that smoke, or a new Instagram filter? Soulja Boy tweeted a photo of what appears to be him and pal Wiz Khalifa smoking out a giant bong on Jan. 3. (credit:Soulja Boy/Twitter)
Chris Brown(16 of59)
\"Oh don\'t worry,\" Brown wrote on this Instagram photo he shared in December, from Amsterdam. \"It\'s medicinal!! Lol.\" (credit:Chris Brown/Instagram)
Rihanna(17 of59)
Dressing up as \"The Bride of Mary Jane\" (get it?) for Halloween wasn\'t enough. Rihanna shared this controversial picture at the start of the New Year, with the caption: \"This nug look like a skull or am I just....?\" (credit:Rihanna/Instagram)
Michael Phelps(18 of59)
Yup. That\'s Olympic Gold medalist Michael Phelps smoking out of a bong, published in the now-defunct British rag News of the World in 2009. (credit:News of the World)
Barack Obama(19 of59)
President Barack Obama has admitted to smoking marijuana and using cocaine during his high school and college days. \"When I was a kid, I inhaled often,\" he once told magazine editors, according to The New York Times. \"That was the point.\" (credit:AP)
Steve Jobs(20 of59)
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs\' use of LSD in his younger days is well-documented. He once called the experience \"one of the most important things in my life.\" His use of the drug was even noted in an FBI background check, according to Wired. (credit:AP)
Bill Clinton(21 of59)
President Bill Clinton famously admitted to trying marijuana while completing his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford. \"When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it,\" The New York Times reported in 1992. \"I didn’t inhale it, and never tried it again.” (credit:AP)
Richard Branson(22 of59)
Virgin Group chairman and founder Richard Branson is an outspoken advocate of marijuana legilization, once writing an op-ed for CNN that called for an end to the war on drugs. He reportedly asked President Obama during a White House visit if he could \"have a spliff\" in 2012. \"They didn\'t have any,\" he added. (credit:AP)
Michael Bloomberg(23 of59)
New York City Mayor and Bloomberg L.P. founder Michael Bloomberg found himself in hot water when he admitted to smoking marijuana back in 2002, The New York Times reports. When asked by a reporter if he had ever tried pot, he responded: \"You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.\" (credit:Getty Images)
Hugh Hefner(24 of59)
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner credits his use of marijuana later in life with changing his perspective on sex. \"I didn\'t know what making love was all about for all those years,\" Hefner who supports legalization is quoted as saying in High In America: The True Story Behind NORML. \"Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.\" (credit:Getty Images)
George Soros(25 of59)
Billionaire investor George Soros is a known supporter of marijuana legalization and even wrote a 2010 Wall Street Journal op-ed rather straight-forwardly entitled \"Why I Support Legal Marijuana.\" His use of the drug may be far less proflific, however. He told Reuters in 1997 that while he had \"enjoyed\" trying marijuana, \"it did not become a habit and I have not tasted it in many years.\" (credit:Getty Images)
Jimmy Cayne(26 of59)
Jimmy Cayne, former CEO of Bear Stearns, kept an antacid bottle full of cocaine in his desk, according to the book The Sellout. (credit:AP)
Sarah Palin(27 of59)
The former vice presidential candidate and reality TV star told Anchorage Daily News back in 2006 that she couldn\'t \"claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” CBS News reports. (credit:AP)
Bill Gates(28 of59)
Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, hinted at once using LSD and marijuana in a 1994 interview with Playboy. Likewise, biographer Stephen Manes wrote that \"Gates was certainly not unusual there [around drugs]. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice…” (credit:Getty Images)
Larry Kudlow(29 of59)
Former Ronald Reagan economic adviser and current CNBC host Larry Kudlow is reported to have both smoked marijuana and used cocaine frequently at periods in his life. After being fired from Bear Sterns in the mid-1990s, Kudlow entered a rehabilitation program to deal with his cocaine addiction, according to New York Magazine. (credit:AP)
Naomi Campbell(30 of59)
Super model Naomi Campbell admitted in 2005 to abusing cocaine during her career. \"I have admitted using illegal drugs and some years ago I recognised that I had a problem\" she was quoted as saying in The Daily Mail. \"I knew that it was wrong and had damaged me and I decided to try and sort myself out.\" (credit:Getty Images)
Peter Lewis(31 of59)
Peter Lewis, former CEO of Progressive Insurance, has both smoked marijuana and lobbied heavily for its legalization. After smoking weed recreationally in his youth, he started using it medicinally after his leg was amputated. “I was very glad I had marijuana,\" he told Boston Magazine. \"It didn’t exactly eliminate the pain, but it made the pain tolerable — and it let me avoid those heavy-duty narcotic pain relievers that leave you incapacitated.” (credit:AP)
Arnold Schwarzenegger(32 of59)
Former California Governor and all around legend Arnold Schwarzenegger can be seen smoking marijuana in the 1977 documentary \"Pumping Iron.\" He later said that he \"did smoke a joint and I did inhale,\" CBS News reports. (credit:Getty Images)
Bernie Madoff(33 of59)
In a 2009 lawsuit, it was alleged that Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff frequently sent messengers to buy cocaine for \"himself and the company.\" Actually, before Madoff\'s $60 billion Ponzi scheme fell apart, his office was known as \"the North Pole\" because of the allegedly excessive cocaine use during work hours, according to CNN. (credit:AP)
Aldous Huxley(34 of59)
Essayist and author Aldous Huxley is said to have experimented with hallucinogenics, even writing an account of his use of mescaline in \"The Doors Of Perception.\" (credit:Alamy)
Al Gore(35 of59)
Former Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore is rumored to have smoked marijuana often in college. However, Gore characterized his marijuana use as \"infrequent and rare,\" according to The Guardian. (credit:AP)
Maya Angelou(36 of59)
Best-selling author Maya Angelou reportedly \"settled into a job as a waitress and began smoking marijuana with abandon\" early in her life, according to a biography by Harold Bloom and Cindy Dyson. (credit:Alamy)
Ted Turner(37 of59)
CNN founder and Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner is rumored to have grown pot in his college dorm room, according to COED Magazine (he\'s reportedly also a major donor to the Kentucky Hemp Museum). After banning cigarette smoking at CNN in the early \'90s, a memo emerged that claimed it \"was common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.\" (credit:Getty Images)
Clarence Thomas(38 of59)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas smoked marijuana \"several times\" in college, White House spokesman Judy Smith said back in 1991. (credit:AP)
Kary Mullis(39 of59)
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis credited much of his success to his use of LSD, according to Wired. (credit:WikiMedia:)
Angelina Jolie(40 of59)
\"I have done just about every drug possible: cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and, my favorite, heroin.\"\n\n[The Mirror, 1996] (credit:Getty Images)
George Clooney(41 of59)
\"I didn\'t live my life in the right way for politics, you know. I fucked too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that\'s the truth. That\'s gonna be my campaign slogan: \'I drank the bong water.\'\"\n\n[Newsweek, 2011] (credit:Getty Images)
Whoopi Goldberg(42 of59)
On smoking a joint to calm herself before winning her 1991 Oscar for \"Ghost\": \"Smoking cigarettes and pot every now and then are my habits. And so I thought, \'I\'ve got to relax.\' So I smoked this wonderful joint that was the last of my homegrown. And honey, when [Denzel Washington] said my name and I popped up, I thought, \'Oh, fuck.\'\" (credit:Getty Images)
Sienna Miller(43 of59)
\"I mean, I still love a waterfall or the odd hallucinogenic drug. I liked mushrooms, which were legal until a year or so ago. If I had a drug of choice, it would be magic mushrooms.\"\n\n[The Guardian, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
Megan Fox(44 of59)
\"I’ve done drugs, and that’s how I know I don’t like them. Cocaine is back with a vengeance. Everyone in every club is doing drugs. A lot of people are on prescription drugs. Celebrities aren’t trying to hide it, except where people have camera phones. ... I wanted to try several things and make an informed decision, but I didn’t enjoy anything other than marijuana. I don’t even think of it as a drug -- it should be legalized. I know about five people who aren’t on drugs today, and I’m one of them.\"\n\n[Maxim, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
Joel Madden(45 of59)
“Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.”\n\n[Blender, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
Oprah Winfrey(46 of59)
On doing cocaine with her boyfriend in the \'70s while working as an anchorwoman in Nashville: \"I did your drug. This is probably one of the hardest things I have ever said. ... I had a perfect, round, little Afro, I went to church on Sunday and I went to Wednesday prayer meetings when I could ... and I did drugs.\" \n\n[\"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" 1995] (credit:Getty Images)
Anthony Kiedis(47 of59)
\"I spent most of my life looking for the quick fix and the deep kick. I shot drugs under freeway off-ramps with Mexican gangbangers and in thousand-dollar-a-day hotel suites. Now I sip vitamin-infused water and seek out wild, as opposed to farm-raised, salmon.\"\n\n[\"Scar Tissue,\" published 2005] (credit:Getty Images)
Drew Barrymore(48 of59)
\"When I was 10 ½, I was sitting in a room with a group of young adults who were smoking pot. I wanted to try some, and they said, \'Sure. Isn\'t it cute, a little girl getting stoned?\' Eventually that got boring, and my addict mind told me, \'Well, if smoking pot is cute, it\'ll also be cute to get the heavier stuff like cocaine.\' It was gradual. What I did kept getting worse and worse, and I didn\'t care what anybody else thought.\"\n\n[People, 1989]\n (credit:Getty Images)
Nicole Richie(49 of59)
\"I kind of took matters into my own hands and was creating drama in a very dangerous way. I think I was just bored, and I had seen everything. Especially when you\'re young, you just want more. ... At 18 I had just been doing a lot of cocaine.\"\n\n[People, 2007] (credit:Getty Images)
George Michael(50 of59)
\"[Marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I could write without it if I was sane and happy. ... This is the only kind of drug I ever thought worth taking.\"\n\n[ITV\'s \"South Bank Show,\" 2008] (credit:PA)
Morgan Freeman(51 of59)
\"Never give up the ganja.\"\n\n[The Guardian, 2003] (credit:PA)
Kirsten Dunst(52 of59)
\"I\'ve never been a major smoker, but I think America\'s view on weed is ridiculous. I mean, are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.\"\n\n[The Daily Mail, 2007] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Elton John(53 of59)
\"I was consumed by cocaine, booze and who knows what else. I apparently never got the memo that the Me generation had ended.\"\n\n[\"Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS,\" published 2012] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Frances McDormand(54 of59)
“I’m a recreational pot-smoker. ... There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. In the classic, weird hygiene movies from high school, everything led to depravity -- marijuana, sex, coffee! There was no distinction made between the effects of one thing. So it’s always been lumped in with drugs in general. It’s a human rights issue, a censorship issue and a choice issue.\"\n\n[High Times, 2003] (credit:Getty Images)
Dennis Quaid(55 of59)
“Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it. People would make deals. Instead of having a cocktail, you’d have a line.\"\n\n[Newsweek, 2011] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Nicolas Cage(56 of59)
\"I had a bag of mushrooms in my refrigerator. My cat used to sneak into the refrigerator and eat them. ... He ate them voraciously; it was like catnip to him. So I thought, \'What the heck, I better do it with him.\' I remember lying on my bed for hours and Lewis was on the desk across my bed for hours, and we just stared at each other -- not moving, just staring at each other, and I had no doubt that he was my brother. But having said that, I don\'t do that anymore. And you know what? Later in life, when I was completely not doing any of that, I know he said \'Hi\' to me.\" \n\n[\"Late Show With David Letterman,\" 2010] (credit:Getty Images)
Johnny Depp(57 of59)
\"I don\'t trust anyone who hasn\'t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn\'t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You\'ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.\"\n\n[GQ, 2011] (credit:jpistudios.com)
Frank Ocean(58 of59)
\"hi guys, i smoke pot. ok guys, bye.\"\n\n[Twitter, 2013] (credit:Getty Images)
Fergie(59 of59)
“I got into a scene. I started going out and taking ecstasy. From ecstasy, it went to crystal meth. With any drugs, everything is great at the beginning, and then slowly your life starts to spiral down. [I was] 90 pounds at one point.”\n\n[\"Oprah\'s Next Chapter,\" 2012] (credit:jpistudios.com)