“Cali Sober” women on replacing alcohol with weed
Photo: FARBOD POORREZA/Getty Images/EyeEm Recently, I saw a conversation between a few women I follow on Twitter about Fiona Apple, who was profiled by Vulture last month. In the course of her interview, Apple mentions that she’s stopped drinking, but has started smoking more weed instead: “Alcohol helped me for a while, but I don’t drink anymore,” she says. “Now it’s just pot, pot, pot.” This was the part of the interview the women were discussing. “Fiona Apple: Cali sober??” one wrote.
“At my age, I’ve noticed a lot of people are at their ‘I’m going to stop drinking’ point, and weed has become a way for them to wean themselves off of other substances,” says Sara, who is 38, and asked that I use a pseudonym because of her job. Sara was never a drinker, due to the potential for drug interactions with her antidepressants, and says that smoking weed affords her the kind of social bonding experience she missed out on when she was younger.
Obviously, getting older isn’t the only reason to curb one’s drinking. “I developed a pretty big drinking problem throughout my teen years, and quit drinking on my 23rd birthday, which was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life,” says Eve Peyser, a freelance writer. Programs like AA insist on total sobriety, which works for some, and not for others.
It also feels weirder, or more conspicuous, to bring weed out at a party , which makes “Cali sober” a somewhat solo lifestyle. “When I first stopped drinking, I’d go to a party and smoke a fat joint instead of drinking, but I didn’t have fun, and I felt kind of lonely,” says Peyser. She now prefers to smoke alone. Shannon’s the same. “If I’m going to be high, I do prefer to be with close friends or even just by myself, where I can feel free to be goofy,” she says.
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