Vegetarian Star

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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta used to be a hard core partyer like the rest of his bandmates.

Then, when one ex member, Jeremy Ward, died of an overdose of drugs in 2003, Omar and the rest of Mars Volta were scared into straight edge vegans who won’t even drink coffee.

Now, you don’t have to be a coffee abstainer to be a vegan or a vegetarian. You can still have your beer.

But could the vegetarian and vegan community benefit its  members from promoting a substance free lifestyle that uses even legal substances sparingly?

The late River Phoenix was known as a hippie, easy go lucky vegan. But behind his clean diet was a drug habit that led to his death.

There is speculation that the late King of Pop Michael Jackson allegedly had problems with narcotics and prescription drugs, and that may have contributed to his death.

Vegans may be stereotyped as pot smoking people, but is it time for that to change? Should the abstinence of drugs and alcohol and the avoidance of heavy medications even if they are legal be pushed as much as not buying leather?

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