What Does a Woman Pothead Look Like?

Onscreen portrayals of weed-smoking women are changing fast, but they still need to catch up to reality

Don't get Jane West started on Seth Rogen. West – the co-founder of Women Grow, a professional network for female cannabis entrepreneurs – is no fan of the monopoly that stoner bros seem to have on pop culture. You know the type: Cheech and Chong, The Dude, the guys from Friday and Mall Rats and Half Baked, and, of course, Rogen, the current cinematic standard-bearer of the bong-hitting, heavy-lidded, very male tribe. "Seth Rogen makes millions of dollars propagating the entire image of what a stoner is," West says. The problem with that image is that it happens to ignore the wide world of female potheads.

Women like West have been delighted by the success of Comedy Central's Broad City, starring comedians Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. "I love that Abbi and Ilana are the counterparts to the bromance that's...

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