McCartney quits smoking cannabis for his daughter

Paul McCartney has revealed he has finally given up smoking cannabis after deciding “enough’s enough”.

The star has been an unashamed dope smoker since the 1960s and has been arrested on several occasions as well as famously being deported from Japan in 1980.

But now the multimillionaire musician — who turns 70 this summer — said that being a parent again had played its part in his decision to quit.

McCartney’s regular cannabis consumption was flagged up by second wife Heather Mills during their divorce battle. The couple have an eight-year-old daughter, Beatrice, from their relationship.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he said of his dope use: “I did a lot, and it was enough.

“I smoked my share. When you’re bringing up a youngster, your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you’re lucky, at some point.

He added: “Enough’s enough — you just don’t seem to think it’s necessary.”

The Beatles were introduced to cannabis by Bob Dylan in August 1964.

Dylan was stunned to learn McCartney was a “pot virgin”. After that came heroin, cocaine, LSD and a range of other psychedelics, which inspired some of The Beatles’ best known songs.

In 1980, McCartney was deported from Japan after officials found half a pound of marijuana in his luggage. But he said he could not quit because cannabis was “such good stuff”.

McCartney also revealed that The Beatles scrapped reunion plans in the 1970s because they agreed a get-together could have wrecked the band’s legacy.

“It could have spoiled the whole idea of The Beatles — so wrong that they’d [fans] be like, ‘Oh, my God, they weren’t any good’,” he said.