Jezebel Blogger Shocked by “Stiletto Stoners”

Posted: October 6th, 2009 | Author: Cannabista | Filed under: LAGNIAPPE | Tags: cannabista, JEZEBEL, MARIE CLAIRE, MARIJUANA, POT, stiletto stoner, TODAY SHOW, WEED | 1 Comment »

After read­ing this recent Jezebel post on “Stiletto Ston­ers”, I had to remove the site from my Blogroll. Is the fact that women are smok­ing pot really shock­ing? In the post, Jezebel’s Senior Con­tribut­ing edi­tor Tra­cie (spelled like a strip­per) Egan writes,

“In a absurdly-titled arti­cle titled “Stiletto Ston­ers” in the Octo­ber issue of Marie Claire, writer Yael Kohen reports some shock­ing news: Suc­cess­ful, edu­cated women in their late 20s/early 30s, with demand­ing careers are smok­ing pot!”

First of all, the title of the Marie Claire arti­cle is fuck­ing genius. Sec­ond, how can any­one find this shock­ing? Female “pot­heads” is not a new trend. The new trend is main­stream media report­ing on the sub­ject. The Marie Claire arti­cle sparked some inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion through­out the blo­gos­phere and was the topic of this recent seg­ment on NBC’s Today Show.

Tra­cie fur­ther pissed me off with,

“Wow. Who would’ve thought that an expen­sive habit that lends itself well to intro­spec­tive—albeit retarded—thoughts would pop­u­lar amongst women with a lit­tle spend­ing money and a lot on their minds?”

Please note the gram­mat­i­cal error. Also note although I am stoned, I am still capa­ble of shar­ing my “retarded” thoughts using proper English.

A lit­tle retarded stoner math for you…

A Stiletto Stoner meets friends for cock­tails at the Stan­dard Hotel at 8:00PM. She hangs with her bud­dies until mid­night and takes a taxi home. The Stiletto Stoner con­sumes an aver­age of 1.5 drinks per hour. Each drink costs $15 exclud­ing a $2 tip for the bar­tender. Taxi fare home to the Vil­lage is $10 includ­ing tip. What were the Stiletto Stoner’s total expenses for the evening?

4 hours X 1.5 drinks/hour = approx. 6 drinks

6 drinks @ $17 per drink = $102

$102 + $10 Cab = $112 (There’s your answer)

For $112 you can buy two eighths of kind­est bud around and have enough cash left over for two Star­bucks’ Grande Iced Sugar Free Vanilla Lattes. Two eights will get me nice and stoned every other day/night for a month. Expen­sive is a rel­a­tive term. Have you pur­chased a bot­tle or Brunello or Barolo lately?

It seems Tracie’s opin­ions about pot smok­ing has changed dra­mat­i­cally since Feb­ru­ary when she cov­ered 35 Celebri­ties Who Smoke Pot.

“…it’s silly — in my opin­ion, any­way — to pass judg­ment on those who take part in some­thing as innocu­ous as pot smok­ing, which many believe is lot less harm­ful for one’s body than alco­hol. Besides, despite the fact that it’s tech­ni­cally ille­gal, so many peo­ple smoke weed recre­ation­ally that it’s not all that taboo.”

Maybe Tra­cie (spelled like a strip­per) has since found Jesus.