Willie Nelson is the chief tester at his weed company

Lake Schatz
The legendary songwriter checks every product at his Willie's Reserve company.Willie Nelson is the chief tester at his weed company Lake Schatz

Longtime cannabis lover Willie Nelson entered the weed business a few years ago with his own brand called Willie’s Reserve. The company’s still going strong thanks to its top-notch product, which just so happens to be checked by the legendary singer-songwriter himself: Nelson serves as the brand’s chief tester.

Nelson revealed his coveted job position CTO (Chief Testing Officer) on The Tonight Show on Tuesday. “[I’m] chief tester,” he said, adding, “I haven’t run across any that I didn’t like.”

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We’re inclined to believe Nelson, who says marijuana saved his life. “I used to smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day and drink whatever there was there to drink. I had pneumonia four or five times, my lung collapsed, I almost died,” the musician shared with host Jimmy Fallon.

“I said, ‘Wait a minute. I ain’t getting that high off of Chesterfields.’ So I throw out the cigarettes, rolled up 20 joints, stuck it in there. I haven’t smoked a cigarette since,” he said.

The 86-year-old songwriter, who now gives a whole new definition to the word “chiefin”, is on the May issue of Rolling Stone, dedicated entirely to weed. He previously released a memoir called Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings From the Road and once even smoked pot on the roof of the White House.

Watch the Fallon segment below.

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Willie Nelson is the chief tester at his weed company
Lake Schatz