TMZ is reporting that Nadya Suleman, the infamous Octomom, is a medical marijuana patient. Apparently, the mother of 14 children, former pay-per-chat phone entrepreneur and pornstar just checked out of a treatment center for addiction to Xanax and promptly purchased herself a medical marijuana card so she can cure her anxiety the natural way. The gossip website's sources are claiming Octomom isn't smoking any weed around her children, but rather is having baked brownies and other edibles delivered to her home, and that therefore, she feels, her kids “are not at risk.”
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On the one hand, if anyone qualifies for a medical marijuana anxiety-treatment program it's a single mother of more than a dozen kids. On the other hand, just when the hell is she going to have the time to get stoned eating brownies if she's supposed to be parenting all those ankle-biters? Either way, although Octomom isn't exactly the poster-child for medical pot, if the space cakes help her quit popping pills, isn't that a good thing? And more importantly, how long will it take before there's some kind of hybrid strain named after Suleman?
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).