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Willie Nelson’s latest is a cannabis cookbook

The ninety-one-year-old singer might outsmoke Snoop Dogg, but for lunch he’ll stick to bacon-and-tomato sandwiches.

The inside was decorated with cardboard cutouts of Gene Autry and John Wayne (“My heroes!”), a “Willie for President” license plate, and some signed Snoop Dogg memorabilia. Now I have to watch it.” His current diet features toast, protein shakes, gluten-free waffles with syrup, chicken soup, and bacon-and-tomato sandwiches. The previous night, he had performed the title track of his latest album for an audience at a taping for the fiftieth season of the public-television show “Austin City Limits.” He’d crooned, “I’m the last leaf on the tree / The autumn took the rest / But it won’t take me.” Several large men in the crowd wept.

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