1945 - In "The Woman in Green," Hillary Brooke in the title role tries to slip Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes a capsule containing "Cannabis Japonicas, an Oriental soporific" in order to hypnotize him.
. Jazz, and marijuana, are blamed.
utters lines like, "Mystic!" and "I must have been really smashed—stoned!" When the boys teach her to smoke, she assures her friends, "I don't inhale, though."
" sketch on the Smothers Brothers TV show, and Leigh Taylor-Young bakes Peter Sellers brownies in
Endora turns up her nose at brownies that aren't made from an Alice B. Toklas recipe.
1970 - Ruth Gordon plays an 80-year-old woman who opens up her young, troubled friend with the aid of a hookah in
. Barbra Streisand tells George Segal, "Now I'm going to make you happy" as she lights a joint to share with him in
. And Shirley MacLaine gets a beatific smile on her face after she smokes while playing a nun in
stars Bette Davis as a widow who motorcycles to Mexico with Ernest Borgnine, while the two pose as hippies to pull off a string of bank robberies. Borgnine puffs in the movie and Davis's character refuses when offered, but asks some intelligent questions about it. On TV's
, Mary and Rhoda (Valerie Harper) suspect they're being used to smuggle marijuana into Mexico for their vacation.
1979 - Beverly D'Angelo smokes a joint with two fellow debutantes (Jane Brooke and Suzanna Love) in Hair.
1980 - Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton have an "old fashioned ladies pot party" in
9-5 and Helen Hunt plays a schoolgirl who smokes pot and is unable to write a book review (ironically, of
Moby Dick) on the TV sitcom "The Facts of Life."
1981 - In a "lost episode" titled "I Do, I Do" of TV's
Laverne and Shirley, the girls (played by
Penny Marshall and
Cindy Williams) get stoned on pot brownies.
1982 - Keaton sings a Beatles song as she smokes in the bathtub in
Shoot the Moon. JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson smoke and yuk it up in
Poltergeist (then they pay). And Debra Winger shares a surreptitious joint in the car with a friend (Lisa Blount) in
An Officer and a Gentleman.
1983 - Winger as Emma and pal Patsy (Lisa Hart Carroll) toke up the night before Emma's wedding in
Terms of Endearment. JoBeth is back toking along with Mary Kay Place and Gwen Close in
The Big Chill, and Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood passes a joint to Cher in
Silkwood.
1984 - Kathleen Turner tells Michael Douglas she "went to college" in
Romancing the Stone.
1985 - Molly Ringwald bonds with
The Breakfast Club gang with the aid of a joint and
Madonna turns on a New Jersey spa salesman in
Desperately Seeking Susan.
1986 - Turner goes back in time to high school in
Peggy Sue Got Married and smokes reefer with the town beatnik.
1987 - Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher smoke pot with the devilish Jack Nicholson in
The Witches of Eastwick.
1988 - Sarandon plays the philosophical pot smoker Annie Savoy in
Bull Durham and Karen Allen returns, this time puffing in a bathtub in
Scrooged and helping Bill Murray find his soul.
1990 - Mia Farrow smokes an opium pipe and finds her true path with the help of some magical herbs in
Alice.
1993 - Milla Jovovich plays with a lighter in the dopey
Dazed and Confused and on TV's
Roseanne, she and her husband enjoy "A Stash from the Past." Olympia Dukakis, playing landlady Anna Madrigal, turns her tenant (Laura Linney) onto pot in the PBS series "Tales of the City," which became a target for Jessie Helms and the far right due to its depiction of homosexuality and drug use.
1995 - Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Winona Ryder share a joint on the front porch in
How to Make an American Quilt, Parker Posey puffs and learns to be a librarian in
Party Girl, and Alicia Silverstone gets "baked" at a party in
Clueless. TV's
"Friends" starts a series of running gags involving Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and marijuana.
1996 - Liv Tyler and Rachel Weisz toke in
Stealing Beauty. On TV, Jane Curtin's character on "Third Rock from the Sun" is revealed to be a former Berkeley radical who tries to smoke a frozen french fry, thinking it is a joint. On "Frazier," Roz (Peri Gilpin) says, "If I can grow plants in my dorm room closet I must know a thing or two about horticulture." (In the 2003 episode "High Holidays" she supplies a pot brownie to Martin.)
1997 - Candice Bergen as TV's controversial Murphy Brown uses medical marijuana. Catherine Hicks plays a mother who admits to her minister husband that she smoked pot in her past after he catches their son with a joint in the series
7th Heaven. Bridget Fonda tokes (but isn't exactly a role model) in
Jackie Brown.
1998 - Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller smoke a joint together after they reunite in
There's Something About Mary, and in
Stepmom, Susan Sarandon's character uses medical marijuana to treat cancer.
1999 - Catherine Keener rolls a joint for her admirers Cameron Diaz and John Cusak in
Being John Malkovich. Claire Danes puffs in a Thai prison in
Brokedown Palace, Sandra Bullock smokes sinsemilla in
Forces of Nature, Nicole Kidman tries pot (and everything else) in
Eyes Wide Shut, and Mena Suvari & Thora Burch share a joint in
American Beauty. Hillary Swank, Chloe Sevingy, Alicia Goranson, and Alison Folland smoke pipes & bongs in
Boys Don't Cry.
On TV,
Linda Cardellini gets self aware (for a second) in
Freaks and Geeks, and Donna (Laura Prepon) moves into "The Circle" in the basement in
That 70s Show. Jackie (Mila Kunis) soon joins in too. In the Series 2 premiere ("Garage Sale"), Mrs. Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) and Donna's mom (Tanya Roberts) have some fun with brownies as the adults make a circle of their own. On
The Sopranos, Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) smokes in a bathtub and with her boyfriend (Will Janowitz,
who says Sigler and he smoked for real before the scene, and that she brought the joint and handled being stoned better than he did).
2000 - Brenda Blethyn grows weed to save the farm in
Saving Grace, Bette Midler inhales onscreen as Mel Gibson’s psychotherapist in
What Women Want, and Laura Linney shares a brotherly joint with Mark Ruffalo in
You Can Count On Me. Jennifer Lopez gets trippy in
The Cell, and there's a Honey Bear bong in
Swimming. Kate Hudson plays a pot-smoking groupie in
Almost Famous, wherein Frances McDormand warns her underage son against using drugs.
2002 - Susan Sarandon loosens up with Goldie Hawn in
The Banger Sisters and McDormand and Kate Beckinsale smoke in the dreary
Laurel Canyon.
2003 - Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) gets caught puffing pot on a NYC street in HBO's
“Sex and the City”
2004 - Sandra Oh passes a joint to Virginia Madsen in
Sideways, and Jessica Walter uses pot brownies to cope with stress in TV's "Arrested Development."
2005 - Showtime’s “Weeds,” with Mary-Louise Parker as a pot-peddling widow in suburbia, premieres. Anne Hathaway takes a walk on the wild weed side in
Havoc, and Sarah Silverman takes a bong hit after the show in
Jesus is Magic. On TV's "Reno 911," police sergeant and former showgirl
Clementine Johnson (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is revealed to be a pothead who steals weed from the evidence room.
2006 - Salma Hayek plays a pot-smoking waitress who seduces Colin Farrel in
Ask The Dust, and Blanca Portillo uses medical marijuana in
Volver (Penelope Cruz refuses). Jennifer Aniston smokes in bed in
Friends with Money, and Cardellini is the life of the party in
Grandma's Boy, where
Shirley Jones,
Shirley Knight, and Doris Roberts drink some interesting tea. On TV, Angelica Houston puffs and passes a joint to her fellow psychotherapist Hank Azaria in "Huff" and on
Entourage, Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and her friend Tori (Malin Akerman) smoke and giggle together, then suggest a possible threesome with Sloan's boyfriend Eric, a typical male fantasy.
2007 -
Polly Bergen plays a mom who bakes marijuana brownies for her cancer-stricken daughter on "Desperate Housewives" and on daytime drama "General Hospital," attorney Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) tries "Cannabis excellantus" procured by her daughter for relief from chemotherapy. On the big screen, Anna Faris stumbles superstoned through the worst script ever in
Smiley Face and Lynn Redgrave plays an irresponsible hippie pot-smoking mother in
The Jane Austen Book Club.
2008 - Danneel Harris
helps Kumar with his stress levels in
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Ellen Page plays a Young Republican overachieving high school student who gets more human with a joint
in
Smart People. Meg Ryan puffs pot proffered by Midler in the Marjorie Main role in
The Women remake, and subsequently finds her way to her bliss. Charlotte Rae—who played the housemother TV’s "The Facts of Life"—accidentally doses the "ER" cast at their Christmas party with her medicinal brownies, and In
Four Christmases Sissy Spacek warns her grandson against grandma's "special" brownies.
2009 - Meryl Streep and Steve Martin “poke smot” in the movie
It’s Complicated, Kristen Stewart has an adventure in
Adventureland, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is the hottest MILF ever shotgunning her young date in
The Rebound. On TV, secretary-turned-copywriter Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) learns to partake on TV’s "
Mad Men"
2010 - Drew Barrymore takes a monster bong hit and blows smoke rings in
Going the Distance, winning her the
High Times "Stonette of the Year"
award. Comedienne Jenny Slate's character on HBO's "
Bored to Death" is described this way: "She's sexy, she's Jewish, and she has a great vaporizer." In the final season, Mary Steenburgen seduces real-life hubby Ted Danson with weed.
2011 - Jane Fonda shines as a hippie pot-smoking grandmother in
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, Cameron Diaz is the
Bad Teacher and
Anna Paquin loosens up with Ryan Phillipe in
Straight A's. In
No Strings Attached, bride-to-be Olivia Thirlby gets stoned when her bridesmaids bring her pot. On TV, "Harry's Law," starring Kathy Bates as a pot-puffing attorney, debuts.
2012 - Emily Blunt smokes from a Wesson bottle bong and turns on Colin Firth in
Arthur Newman.
Halle Berry tokes with Tom Hanks in
Cloud Atlas and Kristina Braverman uses it medicinally in TV's
Parenthood. A widow supplements her income by baking "space cakes" in the French film
Paulette.
Joan Rivers tokes on her reality show.
2013 - Amanda Seyfried smokes a joint in
Lovelace and Aniston's character tokes and transforms in
Life of Crime. On TV, Carol Burnett tries to score medical marijuana at a Hawaiian dispensary in an episode of "
Hawaii 5-0" and Martha Stewart tells Andy Cohen that "of course" she knows how to roll a joint on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live." Bette Midler triumphs on Broadway in the role of pot-loving super agent Sue Mengers in "
I’ll Eat You Last."
2014 - Helen Hunt takes us for a
Ride, and Scarlett Johansson smokes an after-work joint with Jon Favreau in
Chef. Elizabeth Moss plays a pothead in love in the trippy
The One I Love, Reese Witherspoon tokes in
Inherent Vice, Anna Kendrick does in
Happy Christmas, and
Vera Farmiga takes a big bong hit and gets giggly with Andy Garcia in
At Middleton. Charlize Theron turns Seth MacFarlane onto pot brownies (after finding out he doesn't smoke) in
A Million Ways to Die in the West.
On TV, Comedy Central's "Broad City" debuts; "Mozart in the Jungle," based on the book by Blair Tindall, has musicians blowing more than their instruments; "Keeping up with the Kardashians" shows Kris and her mother M.J. eating marijuana gummies and giggling; Garfunkel and Oates sing their song "Weed Card" on an episode where they visit a medical marijuana dispensary; and Kim Cattrall takes an elegant toke in the Canadian series "Sensitive Skin."
2015 - Streep opens up communication with her estranged family with the aid of some pot she finds in the freezer in
Ricki and the Flash, and Seyfried plays a bong-smoking lawyer in
Ted 2. Blythe Danner, Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place and June Squibb have a pot party followed by a munchie run in
I’ll See You in My Dreams, and Cloris Leachman has a blast smoking pot for pain with her granddaughter (Mickey Sumner) in
This Is Happening. Kate Winslet and Judy Davis bake "special" cakes for a neighbor in pain in
The Dressmaker, and Lily Tomlin grabs an Emmy nomination for playing a pot-puffing hippie on the Netflix series "
Grace and Frankie" but was more interesting and powerful in
Grandma, where she tokes with an old boyfriend (Sam Elliott).
2016 - Pauline Collins
makes some Dough, the
Bad Moms are, and
Melissa McCarthy decides to start a "brownie empire" in
The Boss. Tina Fey and Margot Robbie puff on a hookah in
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and Blake Lively pronounces in
Café Society: "Muggles made me feel sexy." In
Fleabag on Amazon, Phoebe Waller-Bridge flashes back to toking up with her lost girlfriend Boo. Mary + Jane, a Snoop Dogg-backed show about two women who operate a marijuana delivery service, debuts on MTV. In "The Ranch" on Netflix, Debra Winger sings along to Ashley Monroe's "Bring Me Weed Instead of Roses."
2017 - Kathy Bates plays a medical marijuana dispensary owner on
Netflix's "Disjointed," and Kathryn Hahn wakes & bakes in "I Love Dick." Collins was back smoking a joint "for her arthritis" with Franco Nero in
The Time of Our Lives, and British actresses Celia Imrie and Imelda Staunton also use it "medicinally" in
Finding Your Feet. Hayek smokes a joint and has visions in
Beatriz at Dinner, the
Bad Moms were back with a Christmas movie, and Florence Henderson (Mrs. Brady) and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) smoke together in
Bad Grandmas.
Tiffany Haddish smuggles pot as only a woman can in Girls Trip, and in the final scene, the girls (Haddish, Regina Hall,
Queen Latifah, and Jada Pinkett Smith) break out the ganja. In
Fun Mom Dinner, Paul Rudd sells Toni Collette the Ruth Bader Ganja, and “gets supremely high” with Molly Shannon, Katie Aselton, and Bridget Everett.
2018 -
Lady Bird wins Greta Gerwig a scriptwriting Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for best director. In it, Saoirse Ronan and Beanie Feldstein smoke, have fun, get the munchees, and giggle. Rihanna smokes in more ways than one in
Oceans 8, in which she plays a Rasta computer hacker. And Julianne Moore plays another divorced woman who smokes pot as part of her new life in
Gloria Bell: the twist here is she's lead to it with the help of her ex-husband's new wife, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, who pulls out a vape pen after a family dinner. On TV, Rachel Brosnahan as
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel smokes with fellow comedian
Lenny Bruce (every stoner girl's dream date), and on HBO Sarah Snook as Shiv
shares a joint with her brothers like "old times" in the only sweet scene in
Succession.
2019 - Kristen Stewart puffs pot in
Seberg (pictured), and four Netflix shows have women smoking pot:
Rita Moreno enjoys some cannabis edibles (accidentally) on
One Day at a Time; Linda Cardellini "reacquaints" Christina Applegate with weed on
Dead to Me; Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney and Ellen Page smoke in
Armistad Maupin's Tales of the City; and Andie MacDowell turns Chevy Chase onto marijuana and more in
The Last Laugh and runs a pot farm on
Cuckoo, in which gal pals Esther Smith and Lily Frazer share a joint and get closer. On the big screen, Billie Lourd asks her fellow high school girls, "Not even pot? Because I think it would relax you" in
Booksmart, directed by Olivia Wilde, and Elle Fanning has "too many drinks, too much weed" in
A Rainy Day in New York.
2020 - Golden Globe-nominated actress Katherine Langford lights a joint from comedienne Edi Patterson's stash box in
Knives Out. Kerry Washington plays a weed-smoking artist in
Little Fires Everywhere and Gwyneth Paltrow power puffs in
The Politician. PBS's
Beecham House depicts hookah smoking, and Natalie Morales makes the right choice on
Dead to Me when asked, "Coffee, pudding or weed?" Anya Taylor-Joy puffs and takes pills in
The Queen's Gambit as a child prodigy/druggy chess player.
2021 -
The United States vs. Billie Holiday depicts how the singer was targeted by the US Government for her drug use due to her politics. Jennifer Lawrence plays a pot-smoking researcher who discovers a comet heading towards Earth in the Oscar-nominated film
Don't Look Up. Leslie Jones gets Eddie Murphy stoned on "ceremonial herbs" in
Coming2America, and Loretta Devine says to Ellen Burstyn in
QueenBees (pictured): "You've got to live every day. Do you want to get baked?"
