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What Do You Do When You Smoke Weed?

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Right now, weed exists in an in-between state. It’s not quite legal, but it’s not quite illegal either. It’s accepted, but not totally normalized. It’s not quite medicine and it’s not quite a beer and it’s not quite green juice, either. Whether the police treat it as a big deal or not depends on who you are and where you live.

It’s all in flux, so it’s tricky to know the right way to talk about it — but that’s also why, on this week’s show, we wanted to try. We started with a very basic question. What do you do when you get high?

Molly: Do you like to go out into the world high or do you primarily like to be at home?

Allison: Be at home. Surrounded by all my comforts.

Molly: Are there comforts that are particularly beloved to you while you are high?

Allison: Yeah, I like my pillows. Sometimes I’ll just bring all the pillows from my bed and lie on them in the living room.

Molly: Like a little nest.

Allison: Like a little nest. I can’t eat like crunchy stuff when I’m high, because I might get dry mouth. So it’s like ice cream — or, honestly, Swiss Miss pudding is the best thing to eat while high.

Molly: A nice wet sweet.

We heard from Jia Tolentino, Aminatou Sow, Ben Sinclair, and Katja Blichfeld of High Maintenance — and a lot of our listeners. A few of the things they like to do:

  • Watch romantic comedies
  • Do some personal finance work
  • Go to the grocery store
  • Go to hot yoga
  • Go running
  • Marie Kondo the house
  • Line up all my bottles and do my skin-care routine
  • Get deep and dirty with ingrown pubic hairs
  • Masturbate
  • Make art projects
  • Hang out with my 2-year-old
  • Go to the zoo
  • Do gymnastics

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The Cut on Tuesdays

A weekly podcast from the Cut and Gimlet Media, with host Molly Fischer.

What Do You Do When You Smoke Weed?