“You probably don’t expect the nice mom nextdoor to be getting high,” starts a report on ABC’s “Nightline” titled “Confessions of a Pot Mom.”
The 8-minute segment, which aired Sept. 23, looked at a group of Denver-rooted women who partake — including ganjapreneur Amy Dannemiller, who does her , and .
“Confessions of a Pot Mom” presents an interesting portrait of women and cannabis, but itap also told with the winking sensationalism that has been par for the course for most national media revisiting Colorado marijuana.
The piece talks about the prevalence of women in the marijuana industry, and it also pays a visit to the Women Grow networking organization started by Dannemiller, who on an NBC News report. Women’s ever-developing role in the weed industry was the subject of . The “Nightline” piece also revisited about the risks facing parents who use marijuana.
“Consumers of cannabis shouldn’t be criticized anymore than consumers of alcohol,” Dannemiller told “Nightline’s” Juju Chang, one of multiple answers that compared pot to alcohol.
The piece might have benefited from a less heavy hand. Instead of saying, “Look at these moms who actually smoke pot,” they could have delved into what it means to be a woman in the cannabis industry, what it means to be a marijuana activist who can finally voice her beliefs to an audience the size of “Nightline’s,” what it means to live in a state where you are thoroughly unsurprised to learn that the nice mom nextdoor gets high.
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