George Michael loves pot, drugs, and nasty sex

There's something about being a famous pop star that gives you the ability to say whatever you want and get away with it. Take George Michael for instance, whose love of drugs and public gay cruising have landed him in the tabloids more than once. The latest news comes from an interview, in which the singer admits to many decadent proclivities:

Troubled British pop star George Michael admitted he was addicted to prescription drugs in an interview to be aired on Saturday.

The singer also said his sex life was good enough to outweigh the bad press received for being caught allegedly "cruising" for sex with strangers.

The world would be a better place to live if more people smoked cannabis than drank alcohol, he added.

Sound tame? Well here it is in his own words:

"Being in the paper, I promise you, is not the bad bit," he told ITV.

"And believe me, I think that the sex I have is worth being in the paper for."

Touché! A little media hoopla and public scandal is a small price to pay for a hot back-alley nut-buster. I think we would all agree on that. And then back to drugs:

"I'm not going to pretend that my drug of choice is not marijuana, because it is," he said.

"We could sit here with any number of policemen and doctors and they would all tell you if everybody who had a dependence on alcohol changed their mind and had a dependence on weed, the world would be a much easier place to live in.

"What I am saying is that nobody ever came home stoned and beat up their wife."

Well, George Michael is obviously a man who knows what he wants and is not afraid to say so. Refreshing or icky? You decide.