People, as big as that Fortune magazine article is, I think this article in Marie Claire magazine can be a huge gamechanger.
Jennifer Pelham* kicks off her black Marc Jacobs pumps, slips out of her trim Theory blazer, and collapses on the couch. The 29-year-old corporate attorney for one of Manhattan’s top law firms has just clocked another 12-hour day, and though it’s over, she’s having a hard time shaking off her frustrations. (A partner had eviscerated the contract she’d drafted, then left before Pelham had a chance to explain herself.) Still distracted, Pelham orders dinner—sushi, as usual—then reaches for a plastic orange prescription bottle standing on the corner of her coffee table 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. Then she eats.
“I hate the term pothead—it connotes that I’m high 24/7, which I’m not,” Pelham says, wincing. “I don’t need it to get through my day. I just enjoy it when my day is over.” Her nightly ritual costs only $50 a month, a pittance compared with the cost of her monthly gym membership or a Saturday night out with her fiancé, an investment banker, who occasionally smokes with her. At 5’4″, slim and athletic—she ran three miles a day while in law school—Pelham insists that pot is the ideal antidote to a hairy workday: It never induces a post-happy-hour hangover and, unlike the Xanax a doctor once prescribed for her anxiety, never leaves her groggy or numb. “Look, every female attorney I know has some vice or another,” Pelham shrugs, tucking her long brown hair behind her ears, her 3-carat cushion-cut engagement ring catching the light. “It’s really not a big deal.”
I know a few of these “Stiletto stoners” here at NORML CON. Brilliant, strong, capable professional women. When Marie Claire – a magazine promoting “hairstyles, women’s fashion, beauty products, and relationship advice” – is painting sympathetic pictures of successful women who use cannabis and calling it “no big deal”, we are winning. Women were integral in overturning alcohol prohibition and will be in ending marijuana prohibition.
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[...] October 18th, 2009 at 3:13 pm | By: Radical Russ First it was Marie Claire magazine with their “Stiletto Stoners”, followed by a sympathetic follow-up on the NBC Today Show. Now Elle Magazine prints 2,758 words [...]
I don’t get your complaint. NORML didn’t write this article, Marie Claire did. Since 1970, NORML’s platform has been the end of adult marijuana prohibition. We’ve been standing firmly there for 39 years. Can you better articulate your issues? I’m always up for constructive criticisms.
I’m 50something, degreed, executive level woman in a highly visible position and I’ve been an after-hours stiletto stoner since I began working in 1978. There are lots of us out there. The problem is it’s illegal. I would lose my job & 6-figure income if anyone knew. But give me the privacy of the voting booth and we’re on!
Just the sort of media nonsence crap NORML has come to be known for.
It is why you lost my support ,and the support of many other oldschoolers just like me.
Try to find a platform/focus, and then stand firmly on it,if you can.
Or dudes…just give up.
regards,
Roach
YaHooka…mookie
Grasscity…roach
Newsvine..as..dogmeat.
Exactly Russ, thats why I was asking who the Lawyer is that spoke today on the Lawyer panel. We need more women out there doing things. Anyways, I thought she was pretty good….
I totally identify as one of these “stiletto stoners”- I have 2 bachelor’s degrees, work a 60 hour work week, and have achieved a middle management position in a non-profit company and I am only 24. I am friends with nearly a dozen other women like me. If only we all could come out of the closet without fear of being fired for something that not only does not negatively impact our productivity, but may actually enhance it. And, society is keeping so many out of this group by drug testing pre-employment. Just think how many more there would be if drug testing were removed as a factor in employment.
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