10 Famous Women Who Have Used Weed
If you’ve ever wondered which celebrities have used cannabis, you’ve come to the right place. Ellen Komp, who blogs about famous females and cannabis at TokinWoman.blogspot.com and is the author of the book Tokin’ Women: A 4000-Year Herstory has compiled her research into a list that will remind you that celebrities enjoy weed, just like us!
You won’t find more well-researched material on women and weed than from Ellen. She’s also a cannabis advocate, herstorian, and Deputy Director of California NRML (a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to reforming California’s marijuana laws). So, if you’re curious - does Kendall Jenner really smoke weed? You’ll find the answer below.
Enjoy this list of famous ladies who have “come out” as cannabis users, and learn more about them by clicking on the links to the Tokin Women blog. Let us know if any of these names surprise you!
Maya Angelou
Revered author Maya Angelou wrote about her experiences with cannabis in Gather Together in My Name, the second installment of her autobiography after the acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
2. Chelsea Handler
Interviewed in May 2019 at The Hall of Flowers, a "B2B Premium Cannabis Trade Show" in Santa Rosa, California, Chelsea Handler looked great in a "Feminized" T-shirt, pencil jeans and purple pumps. To the first question, "What is your relationship with cannabis?" Handler replied unequivocally, "It's strong.”
3. Kendall Jenner
Model and businesswoman Kendall Jenner outed herself as a stoner on a 2020 episode of the “Sibling Revelry” podcast with Kate Hudson.
4. Gweneyth Paltrow
An admitted inhaler, Paltrow has invested in a cannabis drink company and spoofed herself as an entitled pot puffer in “The Politician” on Netflix.
5. Kasey Musgraves
The country singer hit the charts with her song “Follow Your Arrow,” containing a pot-smoking admission. Another song of hers is “Burn One with John Prine.”
6. Grace Slick
The iconic rocker took us back to Alice in Wonderland with her song “White Rabbit” and now paints a character named “Rescue Rabbit” who, in one painting, carries cannabis to the US Capital building.
7. Diane di Primi
Beat poetess di Prima was the mother of five children and became a Lioness of Letters while using weed at a time when poets mostly belonged to boys’ clubs.
8. Billie Holiday
Holiday, whose name was synonymous with marijuana in the 1930s, was hounded to death by drug warriors over her political views.
9. George Eliot
English author Mary Ann Evans wrote epic books like Middlemach under the pseudonym George Eliot, and mentioned hashish in her intriguing novel The Lifted Veil, published in 1859.
10. Harriet Martineau
An ancestor of Princess Kate Middleton, Martineau was a sociologist who traveled to the East in the 1840s where she smoked cannabis and recorded the first known shotgun: Arab women blowing smoke at Jewesses in harems so that they could enjoy their Sabbaths.
About the Author
Ellen Komp has been a hemp/marijuana activist since 1991. She began in Los Angeles where she helped plan quarterly hemp rallies and volunteered for LA NORML after being elected to the California NRML board of directors in 1992. She edited the 9th edition of The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer and was a volunteer petitioner for the California Hemp Initiative (1993, 1994) and Proposition 215 (1995). She worked as an advertising salesperson and editor at HempWorld magazine, the first trade journal for the hemp industry.
In 1997/98 Komp served on the San Luis Obispo County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board, which advised the county Drug and Alcohol Services agency on community standards and practices. She also co-founded The 215 Reporter, the first journal covering California’s medical marijuana law and its aftermath.
In 1999, Komp became a Program Associate at The Lindesmith Center in San Francisco (now Drug Policy Alliance). As Deputy Director of Community Outreach & Communications she planned and promoted conferences and a forum series on drug war issues, and sat on various committees at the San Francisco public health department. In 2001, she developed a website to assist attorneys in medical marijuana defenses for the DPA Office of Legal Affairs in Oakland and was named High Times’s Freedom Fighter of the Month.
In 2002, Komp moved to Humboldt County where she worked for the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project in Garberville. She sat on the Humboldt County medical marijuana task force, resulting in a county ordinance to implement SB420.
Komp has a B.S. in Biochemistry (Penn State, 1980) and worked in advertising and publishing in Los Angeles. She has contributed articles and op-eds to various publications such as High Times, In These Times, Alternet, O’Shaughnessy’s, California NORML Report, Eureka Times-Standard and Cannabis Culture.
Komp founded the website VeryImportantPotheads.com in 2001, and she blogs about famous females and cannabis at TokinWoman.blogspot.com. She is the author of the book Tokin’ Women: A 4000-Year Herstory.