Woman somehow recalls what it was like to smoke weed for nearly 100 days straight... for science
In celebration of April 20th, the day each year when marijuana plants pop out of their holes to look at their shadows and predict the weather, we wanted to highlight the inspirational story of a Canadian woman who contributed to the science of getting super high getting paid to smoke weed for 98 days straight as part of a 1972 scientific study.
Vice interviewed Doreen Brown, the woman in question, about an experience that was aimed to provide Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s government with data on the effects of constant weed-smoking on the participants’ ability to work. Brown applied and was chosen as part of a group of 20 women, who were all “casual” marijuana smokers, to enjoy “increasingly strong joints in a Toronto hospital” for nearly 100 days in a row. Brown was 21 years old at the time and says a typical day involved “[weaving] belts for money” and undergoing “continual psychical and psychological evaluations” while smoking “two joints each” whose THC content was steadily increased.