Since I wrote a round-up of Famous Female Cannabis Connoisseurs in 2010, I’ve added a few notables to the list. Here
they are, in honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month.
For my Black Herstory posting last month, I decided to
google Josephine Baker and sure enough, found evidence that she too had
imbibed. (Baker is one of the women featured on the US government's Women's History Month website.)
Sadly, I added Teresa McGovern, daughter of the late Senator
George McGovern, whose pot bust at the age of 18 helped turn her short life
into a tragic one. Also, I found evidence that Lucille Armstrong, wife of
trumpeter and mj enthusiast Louis Armstrong, was busted for carrying pot in 1954.
Lady Gaga smoked an enormous joint onstage, and she and
Rhianna, who puffed pot in Hawaii and Tweets about it often, both dressed as
“marijuana” on Halloween 2012. But it's Fiona Apple who's facing hashish charges in Texas.
Lisa-Marie Presley expressed a desire to one day go off the
grid and “become a big pothead.” VIP Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame, introduced by Bette Midler. Madonna smoked the SuperBowl halftime show and Amy Winehouse died of alcohol
poisoning, causing many of her fans to wish she’d stuck to pot instead.
Lily Tomlin “outed” herself as a pot smoker on the cover of
Culture magazine. Joan Rivers toked up on her reality show saying, back in the day she smoked it with Betty White, George Carlin, Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. Roseanne Barr appeared at Oaksterdam University while campaigning for President on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket.
Jane Fonda was caught puffing at a post-Oscar party in 2012. Heather Donahue of The Blair Witch
Project released a book about growing medical marijuana in Northern California.
Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella said she supports medical marijuana; so does the
reigning Miss Universe (although both say they're against recreational use).
In fiction, secretary-turned-copywriter Peggy Olson puffed
pot on Mad Men. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris depicted Alice B. Toklas and
(possibly) Beatrice Hastings. Patti Smith’s award winning book Just Kids describes how she saw pot more as an aid to her work than a social drug.
A video of Whoopi Goldberg surfaced in which she admits she
was high when she picket up her Oscar for “Ghost.” Capping it off is Jennifer Lawrence, this year’s Oscar-winning Best Actress who, days later, was
photographed smoking pot in Hawaii.