Cannabis stopped being a secret somewhere in the last decade. What used to be something famous people denied under oath is now something they build companies around, discuss on daytime television, and put their own names on the packaging of.

What's interesting isn't that celebrities use cannabis — it's how differently they use it. One of the biggest names in hip hop smokes flower the traditional way. A 92-year-old country legend gave up smoking entirely and switched to edibles. A lifestyle icon won't touch smoke at all and takes CBD drops for insomnia. A World Cup champion uses CBD instead of Advil.

Below are eleven public figures — including four athletes — who have gone on the record about what they use and why. Everything here is drawn from their own published statements and interviews, with sources linked.

Musicians, actors, and household names

Snoop Dogg — flower, and a whole lot of it

Snoop is the most durable cannabis figure in American pop culture, and unlike most of this list, he never had a “coming out” moment — he's simply never hidden it. In 2022 he acquired Death Row Records and launched Death Row Cannabis, which now operates across multiple states. An earlier venture, Leafs By Snoop, launched with Canopy Growth in 2015.

His format has never really changed: smokable flower, joints, and blunts. He doesn't frame it medically. It's lifestyle, ritual, and by his own account, routine.

One correction worth making, because the internet still gets it wrong: in late 2023 Snoop posted that he was “giving up smoke,” and it went everywhere. It was a paid advertisement for a smokeless fire pit company. He did not quit.

About flower: the oldest format there is, and still what most experienced smokers prefer — you control the dose, you taste the terpenes, and there's nothing between you and the plant.
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Seth Rogen — flower and pre-rolled joints

Rogen has built an entire second career on cannabis. He co-founded Houseplant with Evan Goldberg, launching in Canada in 2019 and the US in 2021, selling dried flower, pre-rolled joints, and ceramic smoking accessories designed to look like home goods rather than head-shop gear.

His stated reasons are refreshingly unpretentious. “I really love weed,” he told NBC News. He's described its effect on sleep as easing you down “like a comfy blanket.” No wellness framing, no medical positioning — he likes it, and he thinks the design of cannabis products has historically been ugly.

About pre-rolls: the same experience as flower with none of the work. For anyone who likes the idea of a joint but has never learned to roll one, this is the entry point.
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Willie Nelson — edibles, after a lifetime of smoking

Willie Nelson is the most famous cannabis smoker in American music history, which makes his current routine genuinely surprising: he doesn't smoke anymore.

He first said so in 2019, explaining that “breathing is a little more difficult these days... I've abused my lungs quite a bit in the past.” He reaffirmed it in a June 2025 Forbes interview at age 92: “I can't smoke anymore. My lungs have already said, 'Don't do that.' So, I don't really do anything now much except a few edibles.”

He remains an owner and advocate — Willie's Reserve on the THC side, Willie's Remedy on the hemp and CBD side — and he hasn't stopped consuming. He simply changed the delivery method.

About edibles: no smoke, no smell, no lung exposure. The effect takes longer to arrive and lasts considerably longer, which is why people who switch from smoking usually need to recalibrate their dose.
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Whoopi Goldberg — edibles, pre-rolls, and her own brand

Goldberg is one of the few people on this list who has been open about cannabis for essentially her entire adult life. She told Forbes about smoking with her brother “in the days when it was just something that you could do under the tree in the backyard when nobody could see you.”

She launched Whoopi & Maya in 2016, wound it down in 2020 after a falling-out with her business partner, and returned in 2024 with a new brand, Emma & Clyde, named for her mother and brother. Her product range has spanned edibles, pre-rolls, flower, and topical rubs.

A consistent theme in her public comments is price and accessibility — she has argued that cannabis shouldn't be “unreasonably priced,” a complaint that will sound familiar to anyone who has looked at a dispensary receipt lately.

About flower and edibles: Goldberg's own lineup spans both, which is fairly typical of long-term consumers — a smokable format for immediate effect and an edible for duration.
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Wiz Khalifa — pre-rolled joints, by the dozen

Khalifa's association with cannabis is so complete that a strain was bred for him and then became his business. Khalifa Kush now operates in California, Florida, Arizona, and Germany, selling flower, pre-rolls, vapes, and concentrates.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live! in June 2025 he confirmed the number that follows him around: roughly 30 joints a day. Asked how he functions at that volume, his answer was mundane — “I have things to do. I work out — I got kids, so I do a lot of different things.”

He's described his role in the culture as making cannabis “a little less scary.” Whatever you make of the quantity, the destigmatizing effect is real.

About pre-rolls: at Khalifa's volume, rolling is a job. Pre-rolls in a 10 pack exist for exactly this reason — consistency, portability, and no prep.
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Martha Stewart — CBD gummies and oil drops, and absolutely no smoke

Stewart is the most commonly misrepresented person on this list, so let's be precise: she does not smoke, and she does not use THC.

She's said it directly: “We're not really working in the cannabis industry. We're working in the CBD industry.” And more bluntly: “I don't smoke. I don't ingest smoke.”

What she does use is CBD, developed in partnership with Canopy Growth and launched in 2020 — gummies, oil drops, creams, and a pet line. Her reason is sleep. “I'm an insomniac and the CBD Martha Stewart oil drops are so helpful,” she told CNBC. “I also love my CBD gummies.” She's careful about the framing, too: “It's not like medicine to me. It's more like an additive to a daily routine.”

About CBD with no THC: non-intoxicating, no high, no impairment. It's a completely different product category from everything else in this article, and it's what people reach for when they want the plant without the head change.
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Chelsea Handler — vapes and edibles

Handler has been unusually candid about the role cannabis plays in her life. She partnered with NorCal Cannabis in 2019 on a woman-focused line spanning vapes and edibles.

Her stated reason, from the announcement: “Cannabis has become an integral part of my life. I've been open about my usage. When I 'rediscovered' it recently, it helped me get through some tough times, and it helped me get off sleeping pills. I now see it as a part of my overall wellness regime.”

She's also talked about cannabis and comedy — that it loosens the associative thinking that stand-up depends on.

About disposable vapes: the discreet option. No smell that lingers, no smoke, nothing to prepare, and the onset is nearly as fast as smoking — which is why it tends to be the format people pick when they want cannabis to fit around a normal schedule.
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The athletes

Sports has been the slowest cultural arena to accept cannabis and, in the last few years, one of the fastest to reverse. Four athletes worth knowing about — and one important distinction between them.

Mike Tyson — flower and gummies

Tyson runs Tyson 2.0, one of the most commercially successful athlete cannabis brands, whose best-known product is Mike Bites — gummies shaped like a bitten-off ear, which is either the best or worst piece of self-aware branding in the industry.

He's been open to the point of oversharing. On his own Hotboxin' podcast he claimed the operation goes through “10 tons of weed” a month, around $40,000 worth — his words, on his own show, and best treated as Tyson being Tyson rather than an audited figure. He's said he smoked before and after his 2020 exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr., and has publicly connected cannabis to his mental health and to moving away from harder drugs.

About flower and gummies: Tyson's brand sells both, and they're near-opposites — flower hits in seconds and fades within hours; gummies take 30 to 90 minutes and stay a while.
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Megan Rapinoe — CBD capsules and gummies, not THC

The World Cup and Olympic champion is a co-owner of Mendi, a hemp-derived CBD brand founded by her twin sister Rachael and built specifically for athletes. The products are gel capsules, gummies, topicals, and drinks.

Her reasoning is straightforwardly practical: “CBD has become part of my all-natural recovery system that I use throughout the day to help with pain and inflammation, stabilize my mood and get better sleep.” And on what it replaced: “Instead of taking Advil or other pain management meds, I've almost exclusively substituted with Mendi CBD products.”

The distinction matters for any competing athlete. CBD is permitted under WADA rules. THC is not. Rapinoe is CBD-only, and that's not incidental — it's the entire reason the product works for her career.

About CBD with no THC: no intoxication and no THC in the product, which is what makes it viable for anyone subject to testing.
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Rob Gronkowski — CBD topicals

Gronkowski announced his partnership with CBDMEDIC in August 2019, during his first retirement, in a press conference where he also lobbied the NFL to permit CBD use by players — at the time a genuinely provocative position for an active-era star to take.

His products are topicals only — creams, lotions, and ointments applied to the skin rather than consumed. He's described the results in blunt terms: “I am pain-free, and that is a big deal,” and “I was blown away with how well it worked.” He has not gone on record about THC use.

About CBD: we don't carry topicals, so there's no direct equivalent to what Gronkowski uses. If it's CBD generally you're curious about, that lives in a separate category from everything else here.
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Kevin Durant — no brand of his own, and unusually blunt about the league

Durant is the only person on this list who isn't selling anything. In August 2021 his Thirty Five Ventures announced a multi-year partnership between Weedmaps and his media platform Boardroom, and he's invested in cannabis companies — but he owns no consumer brand and has never put his name on a product. He's a partner and an investor, not a founder.

What he has done is talk about it with unusual candor for an active player. At a 2023 Boardroom conference he described the meeting with NBA commissioner Adam Silver that preceded the league dropping marijuana testing: “Well, he smelled it when I walked in... It's the NBA, man... everybody does it, to be honest. It's like wine at this point.”

His stated reason is about as unadorned as it gets: “I just enjoy the plant. It's as simple as that.”

The NBA formally removed marijuana from its banned-substances list in the 2023 collective bargaining agreement — a change Durant had publicly pushed for.

About flower: Durant has referenced smoking but has never named a specific product or format, so there's no direct equivalent to point at here. Flower is simply where most people who smoke start.
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What actually stands out across all eleven

Almost nobody uses just one format. The people who've been consuming longest — Snoop, Whoopi, Tyson — tend to keep both a fast format and a slow one. Flower or a joint when they want it now; an edible when they want it for the evening.

The switch away from smoking is real. Willie Nelson is the clearest case: six decades of smoking, then a hard stop on the format while continuing to consume. Edibles and vapes exist largely for people making that same calculation.

CBD and THC are genuinely different products. Three of the eleven — Stewart, Rapinoe, Gronkowski — use CBD exclusively and have never claimed otherwise. Stewart has explicitly ruled out smoke. Rapinoe's career depends on the distinction. Conflating the two is the most common mistake people make when reading a list like this.

The medical-versus-recreational line is blurrier than the labels suggest. Rogen says he simply loves weed. Durant says he just enjoys the plant. Stewart says it's “not like medicine... more like an additive to a daily routine.” Rapinoe replaced Advil with it. Three people, three framings, one plant.

If you're working out where to start yourself, format matters more than any celebrity's endorsement — including the ones above. Fast onset and short duration means flower, pre-rolls, or a vape. Slow onset and long duration means an edible. No intoxication at all means CBD.

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