Sharon Stone is done smoking weed.
Her journey to cut ties with cannabis began when she was put on several medications after she suffered a near-fatal stroke in 2001.
“I got off one of my medications that I was on for my stroke last September, and they said I couldn’t go off of it,” Stone tells me. “They said, ‘You can’t go off of it. You can never go off of it.’ I’m like, ‘I’m going off it,’ and it was like going off of fucking heroin. I was sick as a frigging dog for four and a half months. I just thought, ‘I want my life back.’ I had gotten off the majority of the drugs over the years that they had put me on. But I was like, ‘I want a drug-free life.’”
She continues, “Once I got off that, I decided I’m going to quit smoking pot. And because I think they put so much stuff in it now — they really do — when I stopped smoking pot, I also got sick. It’s not like you’re pulling it out of the ground anymore. It’s not like when we were kids. I got pretty sick for a month. I went to my neurologist, and he said, ‘Sharon, I’ve had people dying in the emergency room from marijuana.’”
Stone is sitting poolside at her Beverly Hills estate on a Monday afternoon. Just minutes before, I watched her paint on a large canvas in a guest house she’s turned into an art studio. At the same time, photographer Tyler Chick is shooting her for digital magazine Nineteen92. The day is also being chronicled by a group of young people from Social Network Studios, a social media management and branding company founded by her eldest son, Roan, that runs Stone’s social media.
