"... [Lifeson] was the one who introduced me to it," Lee says. "I was playing in this other band whose drummer was a Who freak - he dreamed of being in The Who. Me and Al were hanging out... and he gave me my first joint. I got so fucking stoned." Unfortunately, it was only after getting thoroughly high that the penny dropped - Lee had somewhere to be. "Suddenly I went, 'Shit, I have to go to rehearsal!'" he says. Aware that he had been the one to corrupt Lee, tempting him to get stoned in the middle of the day, Lifeson offered to walk with Lee to his rehearsal. "Al came with me, and we were walking in slow motion across the park," Lee remembers. "I got to the guy's house, and he looked at me and went: 'Look at your eyes, man. Are you stoned?' He was freaking out like you'd expect your parents to freak out." "I was like, 'This is a bummer, man! Al, this guy's a drag!'" Lee laughs. "I said, 'I gotta go home. How do I come down from this stuff?' And [Lifeson] went, 'You gotta drink Coca Cola. It brings you down.' So, yeah, we kind of bonded over marijuana." While Lee adds that he's "never touched the stuff since", it's a comment clearly made in jest. ...

UPDATE - 4/5@12:15PM: Guitar.com posted a few more excerpts from the article here:

... While the band ultimately decided to go by Rush on their comeback tour, it was a hot topic of debate amongst the team. But, as Geddy Lee says in the latest issue of Classic Rock, "What else do you fucking call it?" when you're performing a back-to-back set of Rush cuts. "When the band ended, we said it's only Rush with Neil in it," he explains. "Which of course is true. Rush as most people know it. But, you know, over five gigs we will be playing forty Rush songs. So what the fuck should we call it, Iron Maiden?" While the band will be touring with new drummer Anika Nilles, Peart's family has given their blessing for the group to tour under the Rush name once again. Because, when it comes down to it, Lifeson and Lee have gone by Rush for over five decades - it's a part of them. "We were twisting ourselves into a pretzel to try to avoid using the name that we have had for fifty years, and even before Neil came," Lee says. Of course, the tour opening at the venue that played host to Peart's final Rush performance is the band's way of respecting their late drummer's legacy. But they won't let the loss define Rush and confine it to the annals of history. "It just seems silly to go on as Lee and Lifeson Present The Music Of..." Lee concludes. "Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Let's just be who we are and have been for over fifty years." ...