Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker: "I've never smoked pot before"

We have kind of lost interest in "Weeds," one of our favorite shows during its first and second seasons. We tuned in for the sixth season premiere last week but were disappointed to find that we had zero interest in returning for the second episode.

Now comes the revelation that Mary-Louise Parker has never smoked pot in her life. Her character isn't crazy about potheads on the show and never partakes herself, so we guess it's not much of a stretch. From her Vanity Fair interview:

I don’t do drugs, but I’m really suggestible. So I imagine if I did, that’s exactly what would happen. I’d be smoking all day long.

Wait, you don’t smoke marijuana, or you’ve never smoked it?

I’ve never smoked it.

Wow. That’s like finding out Tommy Chong never touched the stuff. I feel so betrayed.

I guess if it was going to happen, it would’ve happened when I was younger. But that was never an effective or interesting form of rebellion for me. Because everybody did it. Marijuana was just a social thing. It wasn’t dangerous or frowned upon. If I’d been popular in high school, I’m sure I would have wanted to do it. But I wasn’t.

I was at a party, and I’d been kind of sick recently. I was in the hospital and on some really heavy antibiotics. But I went to this party anyway, and I was in the bathroom the whole night, on the floor. I was just so ill. Somebody at the party was like, “The only thing that’s going to help your nausea is marijuana.” And I’m like, “I don’t have any!” But then I remembered, somebody had given me a pot lollipop.

A lollipop made with THC?

Yeah. We did something about pot lollipops on Weeds. But those were props, obviously. Then somebody gave me some real ones. People give me pot all the time. I put them up in my closet, on the very, very top shelf, where I keep all my shoes, just so my kids wouldn’t find them. I don’t need that. 

It's just amazing that after all these years and countless interviews this has not come up before.