Rumors have been flying around for months that Marijuana Policy Project executive director and co-founder Rob Kampia was charged with "sexual misconduct" by an employee. Seven staffers left the organization since the August incident. Now they've gone public and it's not a pretty story.

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Marijuana is called many names, across different cultures, largely due to the fact that it’s been around for over five thousand years. An estimated 162 million people in the world use cannabis every year, so it shouldn’t be surprising that so many big names touch the green stuff too. Some celebrities are more forthcoming with their love of weed than others — ahem, Willie Nelson — but you might be surprised at a few that fight for the drug’s legalization. Here are 15 of the greatest proponents of marijuana legalization.

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Slim Shady is "doing brilliantly", according to the Rocket Man

Elton John has discussed helping Eminem to beat an addiction to prescription pills.

The 'Rocket Man' singer told BBC 5Live: "I've been helping Eminem over the last 18 months and he's doing brilliantly."

Speaking to Danny Baker, John revealed his own problems with drugs had made him "arrogant" and "cocky".

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Rapper Lil Wayne and 11 people traveling with him were briefly detained Friday night after U.S. Border Patrol officers found marijuana on two of his tour buses, authorities said.

Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, and the others were questioned and released, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the case was referred to the Brooks County Sheriff's Office.

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When soldiers raided a drug cartel's Christmas party south of Mexico City, they found 16 automatic rifles, $280,000 in cash -- and a Latin Grammy winner.

The presence of the Texas-based norteno singer Ramon Ayala at the gathering in a wealthy, gated-community and the lavish festivities showed the audacity of Mexico's drug cartels amid a government crackdown that has sent thousands of soldiers and police to track them down.

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Neil Diamond changed the classic stoner lyric, "And smoke your marijuanica" to "Don't smoke your marijuanica" on his cover of Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song."

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Lil Wayne is one of the biggest names in hip-hop right now. Actually, he's one of the biggest names in music right now (he had the biggest-selling album of 2008). He's also geared to genre-jump by releasing a rock album in February. Besides that, we also know that the pint-size rapper has been unapologetically open about his drugs of choice which are of syrup and marijuana, but now marijuana is preventing the Louisiana native's Miami apartment from being sold for the listing price of $520,000. Potential buyers are turned off simply because it smells like marijuana.

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Er hat viel erlebt, sorgte immer wieder für Skandale - jetzt spricht der Musiker George Michael im "Guardian" ungewohnt offen über seinen Drogenkonsum und seine sexuellen Vorlieben. Nur über musikalische Pläne will er nicht reden.

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