@notastonergirl You're a fucking loser. Take the stick out of your ass and stick a joint in your mouth.

I'm 29, former Army soldier, surgical tech, currently enrolled and almost finished with school and hope to be working in my second career soon (broadcasting). I don't have children, a criminal record, or a life in shambles. I'm confident, intelligent, and vivacious. And I smoke weed every single day almost without exception; sometimes only at night, sometimes throughout the entire day, and sometimes just when that friend/family member/coworker comes by to spark one up. I smoke right before I have to write to be inspired. I smoke right before bed because I mellow. I smoke before I start a fun night out because it's a way to help me socially drink a little more (I'd rather just smoke the entire time at the bar but...weed is so bad therefore illegal and I'm forced to drink that safe alcohol that's never given anyone a problem before). Sometimes it makes me lazy and I don't do the dishes. But so does post coital bliss or hitting my ulnar (funny bone). Sometimes it inspires me for class and life. Sometimes it makes my boyfriend say "Looks like you've calmed your ass down." It all started as a way to alleviate the severe pain that my menstruation cycles and polycystic ovarian syndrome caused. As a teenager, my father would recommend it to my boyfriends (so he wasn't on the hook for condoning I always assumed) as a way to help with my ADHD and anger that I harbored before I went to the Army. It helped, and now that I don't have health insurance anymore, I use it in lieu of my ADHD meds and I can concentrate better. For me, marijuana has different effects on me at different times. My high is completely dependent on the situation and physical and emotional state that I'm in. I wish more people were open minded about this "drug." Because we're only hurting our future, our economy and our health by ignoring and denying that this plant is a good way to help all of these.

In BC, virtually everyone smokes weed. From lawyers, to my fitness instructors, to my boss, the professors at my school, my doctor, the homemaker that lives down the street, the police, etc. you get the point. All the women that I know also smoke pot on a regular basis, so I was fairly surprised after reading this article. I always thought Seattle was very pot-friendly as well ... it is, yes? Maybe I just don't know enough people.

And $160 a month on pot? Here in Vancouver, I know where to find an 1/8th for around $20 of you name it. Blueberry, purple, pineapple, various hybrids, sometimes white rhino (but that's hard). The last time I went to Seattle, I travelled around Pike Place, all the way down to the waterfront area, and the cheapest I could find for regular BC bud, was $35. Lame.

Women SHOULD smoke pot. It's one of the most healthy ways a woman can deal with stress...when I'm high I am in contact with the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Wisdom....I believe that all women should use pot to help center and calm them...when I'm high I don't need to engage in destructive habits to handle my stress...I don't yell at my kids, I don't compulsively shop, I don't ignore my responsibilities and I dont' drown then in booze...I engage the world around me more fully when I am high...pot puts me in direct contact with the Divine and gives me the insight I need to be a better wife and mother....I believe with everything in me that marijuana was given to women by God to help me be better wives and mothers...

Women SHOULD smoke pot. It's one of the most healthy ways a woman can deal with stress...when I'm high I am in contact with the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Wisdom....I believe that all women should use pot to help center and calm them...when I'm high I don't need to engage in destructive habits to handle my stress...pot puts me in direct contact with the Divine and gives me the insight I need to be a better wife and mother....I believe with everything in me that marijuana was given to women by God to help me be better wives and mothers...

This is ridiculous. How insecure can guys be? Women can do whatever we want and if you think otherwise you're just insecure of your own gender and capabilities if you really think the two are linked. We all have as much power as we let ourselves have, and our capabilities, yes all of them, are IN OUR MIND. Was this quoted by a male psychologist? Heck no, they're all inevitably stupid they can't help it. It was made by me and my mother. She used to be a doctor that delivers babies (OBGYN) Now she's just a GYN. She makes far more money than my father, which there is nothing wrong with just proving stereotypes are pathetically inaccurate, and she told me the truth. Women's breaking down compound system in their stomachs are wired differently than men. In the sense that women are affected STRONGER than men when it comes to drugs. So that's something to brag about actually. They can never get as baked as we can. In fact the only thing I think that men are better that typically than women is physical strength. The rest of the items on their list is a load of donkey dung. We are smarter and more insightful as we have been for generations which they are aware of and have been trying to deny and hide. How can they think they are smarter when they are the ones who have been sexist since the beginning of time. Women are really only sexist to defend themselves and get back at the ones who were sexist in the first place: guys. Let's face it, everyone has a set back and no one's setbacks are greater than anothers. What I personally can't stand is how every old quote says "he" and that women are expected to change their last name and their names are called their maiden names? What are we maids? We deal with periods cramps and birth kids responsibility and all they have to worry about is getting kicked in the nuts. Some retards even believe getting kicked in the nuts is worse than child birth the most painful natural pain of all time. Child birth is like pushing a watermellon out of your asshole and having a thick ass needle shoved down your spine just to handle the pain, or having your stomach cut wide open by a thick blade for the baby to come out of your body. No nut kicking is worse than any of that. That doesn't even deserve recognition, such a ridiculously inaccurate remark.

When I was younger (42 now) most of the people I knew smoked pot, then many of them dropped off one by one including me but I'm an exception. When a little troop heads down to the basement at any given party (to get away from the kids) it's usually all women, their fellas having given it up years ago. Maybe if there are younger guys there they'll partake too.
I seriously feel like this article is relying on some skewed statistics or the sample is all inner city teenagers or something. In my experience it's the exact opposite.