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Actor Woody Harrelson apparently got kicked out of two bars for smoking marijuana indoors—with the mother of fellow star Matthew McConaughey.
The two laughed about the shenanigans during a recent podcast appearance with Ted Danson.
While McConaughey has long been associated with cannabis culture in various movie roles such as his character in Dazed and Confused, he has decided to abstain from today’s potent cannabis because it “doesn’t agree” with him—saying he fell out of trees and chipped teeth three times while high and looking at the full moon.
The trio of actors shared anecdotes about their marijuana experiences on an episode of Danson and Harrelson’s podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” that was released last week.
McConaughey disclosed that Harrelson and his mother have “a major crush on each other” and have “been kicked out of two bars for smoking ‘mar-i-ja-wanna,’ as my dad would call it—for smoking joints together—setting off fire alarm in one. The other one was [the staff was] just like, ‘That’s illegal. What the hell y’all doing? Get out of here.’ And they ran.”
“You got away both times, didn’t you?” he asked.
Harrelson confirmed: “Both times we got out of trouble.”
Danson asked McConaughey about his own cannabis consumption, and Harrelson chimed in to say, “You don’t want him smoking.”
To that point, McConaughey agreed that “the new stuff does not agree with my constitution and my mental makeup.”
“It goes the other way. Time speeds up for me,” he said. “I’ve chipped my front tooth three times falling out of a tree on a full moon when I smoked some of that stuff we had.”
For his part, Danson said when he first met his wife, fellow actor Mary Steenburgen, she didn’t use marijuana and so he didn’t either for two or three years. But then on an outing with friends at the hot springs one day, “we went, oh fuck, let’s smoke.”
“We had so much fun together. This is gonna be amazing,” he said. “I smoked, and she said she turned around, and the whole night, I went underwater—held my breath, come up, take a breath and go back down. That was my entire stoned experience.”
“You were a submarine,” Harrelson, who co-owns a marijuana shop The Woods in Los Angeles with comedian Bill Maher, joked.
Last year, Harrelson’s dispensary was burglarized in what appeared to be part of a string of crimes targeting cannabis businesses in the region.
The actor also got involved in marijuana reform advocacy in California, calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to sign a bill legalizing marijuana cafes that passed in 2024. The governor did give the measure final approval that September.
Harrelson separately disclosed in 2017 that used cannabis to help get through a dinner with President Donald Trump.
Image element courtesy of Moody College of Communication.
Kyle Jaeger is Marijuana Moment’s Sacramento-based managing editor. He’s covered drug policy for more than a decade—specializing in state and federal marijuana and psychedelics issues at publications that also include High Times, VICE and attn. In 2022, Jaeger was named Benzinga’s Cannabis Policy Reporter of the Year.
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