Jennings often got drunk and stoned during his high school years Fox News just reported that in on page 103 of Jennings 2007 autobiography Mama s Boy Preacher s Son A Memoir Jennings wrote I got stoned more often and went out to the beach at Bellows overlooking Honolulu Harbor and the lights of the city to drink with my buddies on Friday and Saturday nights spending hours watching the planes take off and land at the airport which is actually quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned