Arnold Schwarzenegger has got one foot out the door of the California governor's mansion, and he's taking the opportunity to say what he really thinks, at least when it comes to getting stoned.
"No one cares if you smoke a joint or not," Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno Monday. Leno's audience cheered. California's ballot initiative to legalize weed failed last week, he said, merely because it was "written badly." Note, however, that this moment does not mark Schwarzenegger's coming out of the closet as a pothead. Fans of the Governator's early work will remember this classic scene from Pumping Iron:
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