3344: Stiletto Stoners

Since Dr. Harris wasn't in class on Wednesday, Mrs. Pickett told us to blog about the "Stiletto Stoner" article and how we feel about it. Personally, after going online and reading the whole article myself it was written in a light that made it okay that these women were going home every evening and getting baked. Then you scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the reply's and it's all these women saying things like "we need more women like this in control" or talk about how they are only 22, 23, etc. and saying that they are "successful" and smoke weed every night (hahaha....successful to them was $20,000/year). As an educator, this article was telling all of the children who read it that it is okay to be a stoner and if you smoke weed that you will be successful and empowered like these women. That is not the right message to send to our children! We spend a whole week, "Red Ribbon Week" talking to children about staying away from drugs, and "just say no" and have programs like the D.A.R.E. program and this article is going against all of this. I personally look at the Marie Claire magazine in a completely different light, and I don't plan on purchasing their magazine any time in the future. It's funny how much one article can change a person's mind about a particular product.