Willie Nelson and Jeff Bridges talked pot in the latest issue of AARP Magazine. Willie Nelson weed interview is filled with useful advice for novice potheads.

The country legend told the magazine "I'll probably take a couple of hits before or after the show tonight. "It relaxes me, and the medicinal form of pot can cure everything from stress to cancer. It's a shame that it was thrown in with the other hard drugs. Now that the legalization has proven successful in Colorado and in Washington State, it's just a matter of time before it's legal everywhere. There's a lot of money to be made from it."

But Willie Nelson, who is a veteran stoner, insists he  hasn't "seen any side effects" from smoking pot.

Nelson is a music legend who has recorder more than 100 records. His memoir is called "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings From the Road." He was talking about the book with Rolling Stone magazine. The same magazine Nelson told that he smoked pot on the roof of the White House while visiting President Jimmy Carter, when he expanded on the verdant herb.

Nelson told Rolling Stone outright that  "Weed is good for you. Jesus said one time that it's not what you put in your mouth, it's what comes out of your mouth. I saw the other day that [medical] weed is legal in Israel - there's an old-folks home there, and all these old men were walking around with bongs and shit. Fuck! They got it figured out before we did!'

The "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" singer  has been busted on the road a few times and his stash has been taken.

Do those busts take their toll?

"Oh yeah, I've run out. But usually somebody will bring us some weed. Never have to buy any. Somebody just gives you all you can smoke. We played up in Northern California last year, up there where all the good weed grows. I think when we left the concert, there were probably eight or 10 pounds of weed on the stage." Really? "Yeah, because that's where they grow it all. All the great growers in that area, they're proud of their weed over there."

Nelson was busted in Waco, Texas, when the cops found a joint on him when he was crashing after a poker game in his Mercedes. He was also busted in 2006 in Louisiana with a pound and a half of pot that was going to get him through Texas Governor Ann Richards' funeral.

Nelson is political about it. He is a long supporter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) "because I knew the truth about it. And I knew it won't kill you unless you drop a bale of it on you or something."

"There are a lot of ignorant people who don't know that have been told it's a drug, and it smoke and you're going to hell. A lot of the right-wing religious fanatics are the ones who are the most against it, just like they're against telling women what to do with their bodies. A bunch of old, ignorant white people that are dying off. And the big deal about weed or gays or any of that, it's going away. It's not a big deal no more to most people."

AARP was criticized in 2005 when it was discovered that they censored a poll that found a majority of their 35 million members approved of medical marijuana.