Seth Rogen Reveals The One Place He Refuses To Smoke Marijuana

There’s one place that actor and cannabis entrepreneur Seth Rogen says he won’t smoke marijuana.

A self-described daily cannabis consumer, Rogen talked about the last time he abstained—more than a decade ago—during an interview on The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday.

Rogen said he spent three days in Singapore in 2012, and “you can’t smoke weed there.” The country’s extremely punitive anti-drug laws are made clear to visitors with a notice on their passports when they’re entering that the comedian said notifies them that “they’ll literally fucking kill you if you smoke weed in that country.”

Singapore does have some of the strictest anti-drug laws in the world. However, a conviction for personal possession or use of marijuana is punishable by an extensive prison sentence or fine. That said, illicit trafficking can carry the death penalty, and legal interpretations about what constitutes personal possession, as opposed to possession with intent to traffic, could vary.

In any case, the warning from the Singaporean government was enough to motivate Rogen to take a t-break.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve flown places and then got there and opened a pocket or something and be like, ‘Oh shit, there’s a fucking roach in my pocket,’” he said. “So that was a scary walk through the airport in Singapore.”

“I guess that is a good deterrent,” Stern said. “It really works. ‘We’re gonna kill you.’”

Rogen jokingly agreed, saying “if you ever have a drug problem, go to Singapore.”

While the discussion between Rogen and Stern was jest, it should be noted that numerous studies have determined that the threat of capital punishment is not an effective deterrent for crime. Despite that, President Donald Trump recently reiterated his support for executing people who sell currently illicit drugs, calling it a “very humane” policy to prevent overdose deaths that he’s “ready” to implement.

Stern, meanwhile, asked Rogen if he had any kind of withdrawal from his marijuana abstinence, even if purely “psychological,” and the actor said “no,” pointing out that “there’s plenty of other” recreational options that are legal in the country such as alcohol.

“Luckily, you can just drink yourself into oblivion in Singapore. They don’t give a shit about that,” Rogen said.

The host went on to ask Rogen, who owns the cannabis lifestyle company Houseplant, why it is that some people who live in jurisdictions where marijuana is legally available at licensed retailers continue to buy their products from illicit sources.

Among the reasons, Rogen said, is “allegiance” to the people who sold them cannabis before the legal market was established.

“I was in this situation where I bought weed off these guys in LA and, meanwhile, legal weed was kind of coming into the market, and I just felt bad for them,” he said. “It’s like that mom-and-pop store that you go to, and you know that, without your business, they’re like one purchase away from closing every week. And if you weren’t there, they would maybe close.”

“I would buy weed at the store, and then every few weeks, I would throw the guys a bone, meet them in some sketchy fucking place and buy weed from them,” Rogen said.

He also shared with Stern one of his more uncomfortable social experiences with cannabis, when he and his wife “got incredibly high” before an Adele concert—only to learn the concert would be televised and they would be sitting front-and-center at the event.

“It’s like a huge primetime special—which I did not know at all, like a camera crew and a rig six inches in front of us—and I’m just like, ‘What the fuck is going on right now?’” Rogen said. “I’ve never met Adele. I’ve never seen Adele in real life before. I was like, ‘How did this happen?’ And so the whole time I’m just like, ‘Well, I gotta look like an engaged concert-goer throughout this experience.’ And and I think I kept it together, but it was a lot of pressure.”

Beyond his contributions to cannabis culture and the industry, Rogen has also leveraged his celebrity to advocate for reform—including in 2021 when he and other influencers like comedian Sarah Silverman launched a campaign  meant to encourage U.S. voters to reach out to their senators and demand action on legislation to federally legalize cannabis.

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