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"      Lady Gaga has opened up about her addiction to marijuana. The singer, who releases her new album ARTPOP this week, explained to New York radio station Z100 that she smokes to deal with the pressures of her career. &amp;quot;I have been addicted to it and it&amp;#039;s ultimately related to anxiety coping and it&amp;#039;s a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco,&amp;quot; she said.  &amp;quot;I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely, and looking back I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know where the pain was coming from so I was just in a lot of pain and very depressed all the time and not really sure why.&amp;quot;  Gaga went on to say that she has been addicted to various drugs in the past to cope with the huge amount of attention she receives.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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