WEEDS star MARY-LOUISE PARKER tried marijuana for the first time at the a ge of 45, after a friend convinced her it would cure a bout of sickness.
The actress, who plays a drug-dealing mum on the hit show, insists she never touched the drug as a teenager - but she succumbed to temptation af ter someone gave her some pot-laced lollipops.
Parker tells Vanity Fair, "I didn=E2=80=99t smoke, it was a lollipop.
"I was at a party, and I=E2=80=99d been kind of sick recently. I was in the hospital and on some really heavy antibiotics. But I went to this pa rty and I was in the bathroom the whole night, on the floor. I was just s o ill. Somebody at the party was like, ‘The only thing that=E2=80=99s goi ng to help your nausea is marijuana.’ And… I remembered, somebody had g iven me a pot lollipop.
"We did something about pot lollipops on Weeds. But those were props, o bviously. Then somebody gave me some real ones. People give me pot all th e time. I put them up in my closet, on the very, very top shelf, where I keep all my shoes, just so my kids wouldn=E2=80=99t find them. I don=E2=80 =99t need that." But Parker’s experiment with the pot lollipop left her unimpressed: "My entire life, I never wanted anything to do with marijuana. So when I was sick, I was like, ‘What the hell?’ I was actually kind of excited about it. I was like, ‘Oh my god, I=E2=80=99m 45 and I=E2=80=99m having my firs t pot experience!’ But it did nothing.
"I didn=E2=80=99t feel anything! I mean, I still felt ill, but I didn=E2 =80=99t get any of the happy effects you=E2=80=99re supposed to have. I d on=E2=80=99t know, maybe the lollipops went bad.
"I licked it. But somebody told me that you need to eat it. Somebody qu ite famous who grows his own, he told me I should be eating it. But at th is point, I feel like =E2=80=9CWhy bother?=E2=80=9D I gave it a shot, it didn=E2=80=99t work. I=E2=80=99m over it."
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