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Zach Galifianakis On Bill Maher: Lights Up a Joint (Video)

by Amy Judd | November 1, 2010 at 09:14 am

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Zach Galifianakis Voiced His Support For Prop 19 When He Lit Up a Joint on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday

The actor was part of a panel on Bill Maher's show and they were discussing Proposition 19 when Galifianakis suddenly pulled out a joint and proceeded to light up.

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The crowd went crazy when he did so and he passed it around the panel so that they could confirm it was real.

Before lighting the joint he made the point that people still see pot smoking as taboo, and then after taking a few puffs he yelled out 'oh my God look at those dragons' to further his point that is how people see pot smokers.

Check out the video below, do you think Galifianakis got his point across?

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Karen Hatter

at 11:47 on November 1st, 2010

I actually saw this show and have been wondering IF or WHAT specific rules/laws he may have broken lighting up on air on cable television.

michaelsaad

at 19:02 on November 1st, 2010

Im not a lawyer, but ordinarily - they would have had to catch him in the act, seize the cigarette and have it tested in a lab to prove it was really weed in court. Of course, that wouldnt necessarily stop someone from trying to use people's testimony to try to put a case on him - but then those people would have to be "expert witnesses", and even that's a long shot.

Add to it - the fact that "props, imagination and fantasy are used everyday in the life of an actor and in Hollywood" - so it would be a believable defense (at least in the law's eyes) that he was simply using wizard weed or another form of smoke that smells like pot.

But, absent any criminal laws - I'm sure someone got offended and will sue. Or, at the very least - the FCC - as civil and fcc laws, rules and regs are a bit more lenient as far as evidence and reasonable doubt.