Today Show host Matt Lauer recently sat down with Joanna Coles, Editor-in-Chief for Marie Claire magazine, and Dr. Julie Holland, author of Weekends at Bellevue to discus “Stiletto Stoners” an article recently published in the magazine.

 

According to Ms. Coles the article redefines society’s stereo-type of “pot heads,” replacing the image of someone “lying on a park bench addicted” with that of a working professional. The video shows a woman who admits to using $200-$300 worth of marijuana a month. She equates marijuana to a bubble bath in that it enables her to relax, going on to say that marijuana does not give her the same feeling in the morning that a glass of wine would.

 

Matt Lauer questions if perhaps equating marijuana use to bubbles baths and an occasional glass of wine ignores the “darker side” of the drug.

 

While the magazine’s editor and the doctor interviewed both claim that they are not condoning marijuana use, the article is biased in that is does not address any of the addictive qualities of the illegal drug, the “darker side” to which Matt Lauer was alluding.

 

With over 200,000 emergency room visits each year due to marijuana use and 16.1% of drug treatment admissions reporting marijuana as the patient’s drug of choice, isn’t Matt Lauer right to question if this article (clearly minimizing the harmful effects of marijuana) is ignoring the “darker side” of the drug?