Sunday, December 15, 2024

2024 Tokey Awards

Tokin' Woman of the Year: Tiffany Haddish

Tiffany Haddish and her outrageously awesome brand of comedy burst onto the scene in Girls Trip (2017), in which her character smuggles pot onto a plane as only a woman can. She was the natural casting selection to voice the pot-savvy Kitty in the 2021 animated series based on The Freak Brothers cartoons of the 70s, co-starring Woody Harrelson and Pete Davidson.

After announcing she'd given up drinking following a pair of arrests for DUIs in 2022 and 2023, Haddish gave an interview with Jaivier Hasse of Forbes magazine in May of this year in which she talked about her use of cannabis to treat her endometriosis and announced, "I choose weed over drugs."

Raised in foster homes after her mother had a tragic accident when she was 9, Haddish lived in her car at age 17, when she was raped by a police cadet. A teacher gave her a choice between psychological therapy and the Laugh Factory Comedy Camp. Comedy turned out to be her savior.

Cannabis was another blessing. “It made me feel relaxed. It took away a lot of my emotional pain. At first, it was like an occasional thing," she said. "Then, as I experienced endometriosis pain, especially during my cycles, during my period, I would smoke weed basically for a week straight while I was bleeding. And, that changed the game for me. I was able to function. I wasn't like crying and super emotional all the time."

“When I discovered the actual power of marijuana and how it can help relieve that inflammation, bring that pain down… It has helped me so much,” she explained. “I went to Panama and learned about the different things that cannabis can do and how you can use it. I like mixing it [cannabis leaves] with coconut water and making tea out of the flower.”

Never afraid to speak her mind, she added, “There are lots of very productive, business-minded, business-oriented, resolute people that smoke or ingest marijuana in some sort of way, shape or form. There’s a lot of domestic violence because of alcohol. A lot of child abuse because of alcohol, but not because of weed."

"If men got endometriosis, it would probably be something talked about," she continued. "You need to give women the right to be able to smoke or ingest cannabis legally… If you are going to take the right for women to make the decisions off of their uterus, then you need to give them the right to be able to smoke or ingest cannabis legally, completely across the board.” 

Haddish won a Primetime Emmy Award for hosting a Saturday Night Live episode in 2017, the year she published a memoir, The Last Black Unicorn. Her album Black Mitzvah in 2019 won her the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, making her the second African-American woman to win this prize after Tokin' Woman Whoopi Goldberg in 1986. Richard Pryor is named as one of her mentors.

Having conquered every other forum, Haddish released a single CD co-written with Diane Warren this year titled, "Woman Up." Her new book is titled, I Curse You With Joy. She certainly does.

The 2024 Tokey Awards


BEST COMEDY SPECIAL 

Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go
Einbinder starts with a series of trenchant and hilarious observations about drugs from weed to Ritalin, and goes on to tackle topics like global warming from a woman's perspective with killer comedic and performance skills.


BEST OPINION PIECE 



BEST SONG / PERFORMANCE

 




BEST ART EXHIBIT



TOP EVENTS 

California State Fair Allows Cannabis Sales and Consumption For the First Time





NICEST NEWS
 
 

AWESOMEST ACTIVISM


 
 
 
 
COOLEST CELEBRITY ACTIVISTS


Erykah Badu Appears As Special Guest Presenter at The Women's Canna Awards in LA

  


BEST BOOKS
 
 
HISTORY


 
MEMOIR

Barbra Streisand: My Name is Barbra


 
COMEDY
 

 


TOP NEWS STORY



TOP COLUMN 

 


OUTINGS OF THE YEAR



After her preroll bust in Cayman Islands, "Saturday Night" star Rachel Sennott joked: "You want to be arrested for something cool. You want to be arrested for like protesting, shoplifting, something awesome." Just not for a minor cannabinoid. 

@Yes4MA reports: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle is one of 50 elected officials supporting our campaign because she knows that our current mental healthcare system is leaving too many people behind. Psychedelic-assisted therapy is a new path forward. 

@SmartandSafeFl writes:  “Safe lab-tested marijuana will save lives and put an end to outdated laws that ruin people’s lives for merely possessing or consuming small amounts of marijuana.” Thank you @RepLoisFrankel for your support of #YesOn3, and freedom in Florida."

 
BEST AWARD SHOW/PRESENTER: THE EMMYS
 
Candice Bergen, who famously drew the ire of then-Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy Brown raised a child as a single mother, reflects on how much has (not) changed since then in one of the Emmy's best moments. (Bergen was the first medical marijuana user on TV as Murphy when she gets breast cancer.) On the same show, John Leguizamo spoke (derisively) about Speedy Gonzales and his stoner cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez, and Alan Cummings quipped, "I think I know what's in Holland's water."


DOPEST DOCUMENTARY
 
Interviews her fellow prisoner Susan Spry, who was serving time on a meth charge when they met at Alderson. Stewart wrote a note of recommendation that got Spry the job she still holds after she left prison. Her Christmas letter from prison called for legalizing drugs, having met so many women in prisoner on drug charges. 
 

 
MOST HONORABLE MENTION: Rachel Maddow: To Russia with Liev
 
CUESTEST QUIPS 
Mary Katherine Ham re: edibles and Trump's transition on Real Time.


Desi Lydic names Nightmare Blunt Rotations on The Daily Show. 

Bill Maher announces that Real Time would be taking a summer break: "Gotta recharge the batteries...in my vape." 

Anthony Anderson guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmel while he "eats weed gummies in a fishing boat." 

Roy Wood Jr. Jokes, "I stay away from meth..." on CNN's "Have I Got News for You."
 
Brandy Clark at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: "I can really smell the weed, so thank you." 
 
Fran Lebowitz talks about objecting to serving on a jury for a "Buy and Bust" before marijuana was legal in NYC on Real Time. 





 
MOST MARVELOUS MOVIE



 
TOP TWEETS 
 
 
 
 
 
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove: "Opponents are attempting to derail the Biden administration’s review of marijuana’s Schedule I status by claiming that rescheduling marijuana would violate U.S. treaty obligations. I sent a letter to @DEAHQ urging them to reject these meritless arguments." 
 
STRANGEST TWEETS

Elon Musk: Actual footage of me after Donald Trump won

Joe Biden Gets Jacked Up on Water


ENTREPRENEURIAL EXCELLENCE 


House of Puff: How One Women-led, Latina-Owned Brand Creates Impact with Elegance


MOST SERIOUS STUDIES 
 
YOUTH / PARENTING / FAMILY 

Michigan study finds that black and multiracial newborns were significantly more likely to be tested for substance exposure at birth, and that newborns with a test positive for THC only were not more likely to experience maltreatment. The authors conclude, "The evidence strongly supports a policy to end routine CPS investigations for cannabis exposure and eliminate racially biased drug testing practices."


EFFECTS / MEDICAL USES
 
 
 
Cannabis Can Help Treat Female Orgasmic Disorder, Study Finds As Ohio Officials Consider Adding It As Qualifying Condition

 
HISTORY / POLLS

 

FOR JD VANCE'S READING LIST

 
 
 
 
MOST MAINSTREAM MENTIONS




WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD (WITH A TIP OF THE TEACUP TO KEITH OLBERMAN, WHO INVENTED THE FORM) 
 
A group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted on WhatsApp about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. 

Hundreds Of Women Are Being Prosecuted For Using Marijuana Or Other Drugs While Pregnant Following Roe’s Repeal, Report Shows


Virginia Governor Youngkin Vetoes Marijuana Parental Rights Bill That Passed Legislature With Bipartisan Support
Meghan Markle's new Netflix show is filming on cannabis farm at center of feud over intense stench in Carpinteria neighborhood 

 
 
Matt Friend's Obama imitation on Club Random: "It's great to be here with my fellow weed smoker, Bill Maher."

Colbert Late Show unpacks this year's Easter flap and, noting that next year the holiday will fall on 4/20, predicts we'll hear: "The liberals want to turn Jesus into some long-haired sandal-wearing beaded hippie who was all about peace and love. Groovy man! Forgive your enemies!"


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