IS MCCARTNEY ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE?

Steven Tyler says Paul's hittin' the hemp too hard; will Keith
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March 14, 2001 | Attention: Paul McCartney. Steven Tyler thinks you
should lay off the weed, step away from the bong, drop the joint ...
pronto.

"He smokes too much pot," the Aerosmith frontman says of the
ex-Beatle in Gear magazine. "It's none of my business and he can do
what he wants, but that's just my opinion."

How much is too much is anyone's guess. But Tyler thinks the amount
that he himself did in his feckless youth was just enough to save his
life.

"I'm grateful for doing those drugs [in the '70s], because they kept
me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS," Tyler says.

Then again, the drugs also allowed him to justify sleeping with
underage women, like the real-life Penny Lane -- when she was just 15.

"I've always been 15 in my mind," the 52-year-old rocker explains.
"I've had a non-adult, juvenile mentality for a long time. I always
thought it was because -- when you start taking drugs and then you
stop -- you subtract those years in-between. It's really like I'm 26
right now."

Clearly, those drugs have had no effect whatsoever on his reasoning skills ...

SOMEONE NEEDS A GOOD TALKING-TO FROM STEVEN TYLER ...

"You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really
shouldn't be doing it at all. I'm a very pro-choice pot smoker, and I
wouldn't dream of telling my children that I didn't smoke pot. In
fact, I wouldn't care if the whole world knew."

- -- Jade Jagger on toking up before the world in the upcoming issue of Tatler.