I was a late bloomer. I started smoking at 24, and I'm 30 now. When I was young, my dad was a big pothead, and he drank a lot. I was really religious, good kid, and the negative perceptions were there, like, "Only people with big problems are the ones smoking and drinking." Eventually, I fucking grew up and was like, "Wait a minute—it's not that big of a deal." I'd say the turning point for me was seeing my chill-ass home girls—women that I really admired and respected—smoking. I was like, "Oh, its not just gross guys that smoke weed."

I'm a comic. I tried to do stand up stoned, and it was terrible. I bombed so hard. The first time I was like, "Okay, maybe this just is my first time and I could've been paranoid or something." I did it another time and was like, "No, I can't do this while I'm high." Whatever. It gives me something to look forward to after my show.

If you smoke, people will assume that you're a stoner, especially if you're a girl. If you post a smoking pic, everybody is like, "Okay, you have a problem." And I'm just like, "Hey listen, I'm just trying to be like Rihanna, calm down." She's the greatest poster girl for female stoners. I don't want to compare cigarettes to marijuana, but remember back in the '90s, when all those beautiful supermodels smoked cigarettes, and it just seemed so beautiful? That's what Rihanna is doing with weed. For a long time, it was just the Sarah Silverman-type chicks, where they were just dressed-down potheads and they don't give a shit about anything, and that's never been my style. Rihanna makes it pretty because she's so fabulous. I like the way I look and I like to be dressed up and I embrace everything about myself physically, and Rihanna is that way too. She's in a gown looking beautiful and she has a blunt and she makes it so chic.