Bright Green Celebrity: Sting says War on Drugs has failed, high times to legalize marijuana?

Green Celebrity News: Sting has come out publicly in support of legalizing marijuana. Who is Sting? Singer, songwriter, and true renaissance man is going green and donates a ton of time as a volunteer for charity.

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He is no Willie Nelson or Snoop Dogg, but singer Sting supports Prop 19 --

On July 8, Sting openly said the 'War on Drugs' has failed, and it is high time to legalize marijuana in the United States for good. That's the gist of this report -- as a review of Hollywood 420 breaking news about yet another star celeb going green.

STING GOING GREEN?

Marijuana legalization is a hot topic in Hollywood, and famous celebrities from all over the world are starting to voice their opinion about whether or not pot smoking should be legalized in the United States.

Sting has never been a notorious pot smoker like country music singer Willie Nelson or rap singer Snoop Dogg, but he has been to Amsterdam more than his share of times and his common sense tells him enough is enough.

Celeb Stoner reports:

At last night's 2012: Time for Change screening in New York, Sting, who appears in the film, told CelebStoner that he thinks Prop 19, the Tax Cannabis initiative, will prevail in California come November.

Sting recently joined the Drug Policy Alliance and appeared with Montel Williams in a DPA promo video.

Sting & Daniel Pinchbeck"Everyone knows the War on Drugs has failed," he said in March. "It's time to step out of our comfort zones, acknowledge the truth - and challenge our leaders, and ourselves, to change."

Despite the apocalyptic prophecy surrounding the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, Sting called 2012: Time for Change "an optimistic film," during the post-screening Q&A. "It's not a gloom and doom film. It's realistic optimism."

Narrated by author Daniel Pinchbeck (above, right) and directed by Joao Amorim, the 85-minute documentary (not to be confused with Roland Emmerich's 2009 blockbuster, 2012) provokes but doesn't push too hard. Pinchbeck's mission is to encourage positive change and personal transformation through shamaniism, yoga, meditation, permaculture and sustainability. We can all start by not purchasing bottled water, the director implored.

2012 Time for ChangeIn the film, Pinchbeck journeys to Africa and South America, where he samples native hallucinogens, iboga and ayahuasca. "We should have the right to determine our own consciousness," he said. "These tools are available to us."

Sting noted about his experience with ayahuasca in Brazil: "I was wired to the entire cosmos. It was the only genuine religious experience I've ever had. It gives you access to the Godhead."

2010: Time for Change also features interviews with David Lynch, Gilberto Gil, Dennis McKenna and Ellen Page. The film opens in New York on Oct. 15.

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WHO IS STING?

If you are not familiar with Sting, you should be.

He has acted in major motion pictures, been nominated for 3 Academy Awards, and is a Grammy award winning artist several times over.

Sting writes songs, performs music, and is a talented singer. Well versed in rock, classic, and contemporary music, he is truly a gifted and talented new age renaissance man.

Celebmania reports:

Sting knows some people think he is a "pretentious prat". Although the former frontman of The Police knows he can be annoying he won't change because he doesn't care what people think of him.

"For some people I am a pretentious prat," he told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "But they're not people who actually know me. I don't feel like defending myself that much so I'd rather say, 'That's fine, believe what you want to believe,' I live my life."

Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, is adamant is doesn't the need the acceptance of others to be happy, despite having a career based on people liking his music. He said, "I don't need everyone to love me. I really don't."

Sting, who is married to actress-and-producer Trudie Styler, has come under fire in the past for his alternative beliefs. The 58-year-old star has frequently spoken out about his love of Tantric sex.

The couple has been married since 1992. Sting is the father of 6 children.

Regarding recent charity benefit activism as a green celebrity, Hollywood News reports:

Sting is a major rock star and Trudie Styler, his wife, is a political activist and movie producer with an acting background. So you don’t expect them to go all 19th century, but that’s what they did last night at Jazz at Lincoln Center. In the Allen Room, for a charity called the Culture Project and Music Unites, they performed their own version of an 1837 “Love Letters.”

With a background of the sun setting over Fifth Avenue almost on cue, Sting and Trudie performed their two hander, “Twin Spirits,” that’s based on the letters back and forth between composer Robert Schumann and his decade-younger pianist wife Clara Wieck. This time they had help from actor David Straithairn, who narrated, and Joshua Bell on violin, and singers Nathan Gunn and Camille Zamora.

Sting also made a free satellite live music performance for Larry King's telethon to help raise money for environmental charities dealing with the consequences of the BP gulf oil spill.