The Devil Smokes Ganja

Reefer madness is the new black! Marie Claire exposes what they call "stilleto stoners" in their latest issue. Yes, even the well-heeled like to puff on a little pot after a stressful day in this rough n' tumble town.

Take 29-year-old corporate attorney "Jennifer" for instance, she's been running around for 12 hours in her Marc Jacobs pumps and at the end of the day "reaches for a plastic orange prescription bottle alongside a glass pipe and blue Bic lighter, just as the cleaning lady left them. She twists off the cap, pinches off a piece of the fragrant green bud inside, gingerly places it in the bowl of the pipe, and lights up. Over the next 30 minutes, she takes three deep drags, enough to drown out the noise whirring in her head." Soon enough she'll be popping pills to drown out the paranoid voices!

And here's a pro tip from 28-year-old "Debbie," for those watching the budget (and waistline), she tells the magazine, "I love to have a glass of wine now and again, but going out and downing sugary cocktails isn't fun for me. And drinking is so much more expensive." Bonus: her routine of getting high allowed her to finally finish The Fountainhead! Now when she does go out for a cocktail, she can entertain her friends with a riveting diatribe on Objectivism, just like the rest of us did in high school. [via NYMag]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on October 3, 2009 4:44 PM

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tj

Potheads are so boring and annoying.

Guest

You're hanging out with the wrong potheads then.

Jen S

I'm sending this to my mom.

NannyState

Ha!

oofstar

it's interesting that pretty much every woman in the article said they don't really drink.

it's also interesting that they talk about 70's stoners and how these women don't fit that stereotype, but they aren't fitting the 80's power broker cokehead stereotype either.

Sommelier

mediclawyer: Thanks for reminding everyone about that! Cops will tell you "If you have anything on you and I have to find it, it will be worse for you, so hand it over." That is a LIE! Instead of busting you for a simple code violation and writing up a ticket, they'll bust you for "burning or open to public view", and you'll have a record. This was certainly not the intention of the law when small amount possession was decriminalized: there is no excuse for the courts allowing this misapplication of the law by the police.

As we were taught when I was a kid: shut up and play it to a bust.

mediclawyer

It is essentially legalized.

Keep in mind that possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana is NOT A CRIME in New York-it is a civil violation with at $100 fine, unless it is "burning or open to public view." So as New York Magazine noted last month, never admit to having it- make the officers have reasonable suspicion to search and make them find it.

sources:

http://norml.org/index.cfm?wtm_view=&Group_ID=4554

http://nymag.com/news/features/58995/index3.html

Darius

"Soon enough she'll be popping pills to drown out the paranoid voices!"

Yeah F you Gothamist for spreading the propaganda.

The majority of New Yorkers smoke the herb.

Legalize it already!!!

tsk_tsk_tsk

I know right? I like Gothamist mostly, but they constantly throw these inaccurate, smarmy lines into their stories. They have no problem perpetuating "canards" and other fallacies to get a laugh... Which is unfortunate because generally these lines are not funny.

Sommelier

"reading Ayn Rand at 28"

Well, maybe there IS a reason for calling it "dope". Ayn Rand! She's like L. Ron Hubbard for people who didn't have the imagination for Sci-Fi. LMAO!

Sommelier

"Soon enough she'll be popping pills to drown out the paranoid voices!"

Oh, puh-leeze! I really thought better of Gothamist than to repeat the old canard that pot is a gateway drug, leading to pill-popping!

rcltrh

You've got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.

NannyState

I'm surprised they haven't learned to get "headache pwoder" from couriers as well.

hunter.blatherer

Then you haven't been paying attention.

Humptydank

A friend of mine used to call that "playing Napoleon with your emotions," as in using chemicals to order your mood to be a particular way immediately.

Oh no wait, that was my counselor at rehab.