Stiletto Stoners

Successful career women who smoke marijuana.

Under the headline “Stiletto Stoners,” Yael Kohen asked in Marie Claire:

They’ve got killer careers and enviable social lives. They’re also major potheads. Why are so many smart, successful women lighting up in their off-hours?

According to Kohen, one fifth of the 8 million or so women who owned up to using marijuana in a recent survey earn over $75,000 – “the upper-middle-class Pottery Barn set”:

They cut a wide swath across the professional spectrum, including lawyers, editors, insurance agents, TV producers, and financial biggies, looking nothing like the blotto hippie teens of “Dazed and Confused” or the unemployed, out-of-shape schlubsters who are a staple of the Judd Apatow canon. By all outward appearances, they are card-carrying, type A workaholics who just happen to prefer kicking back with a blunt instead of a bottle.