Sharon Stone says she quit cannabis after years of using it to cope with seizures and other neurological effects of the stroke she suffered in 2001. She now presents both that decision and her efforts to reduce her medications as part of a broader attempt to reclaim control of her life.
Sharon Stone recently spoke about her health and once again discussed her relationship with cannabis. The Basic Instinct actress revealed that she decided to quit weed and stop taking one of the medications she had been prescribed following the 2001 stroke that nearly cost her life.
Stone, 68, said she wanted to reclaim her life and stop depending on substances. But her history with marijuana is less straightforward than that statement suggests: for years, the actress had described using it as a way to cope with the neurological aftereffects of that life-changing event.
Sharon Stone had been cutting back on medications for years
For Stone, the decision to quit weed was not an isolated one. In a recent Variety interview, she said that she had been trying for years to reduce the number of substances that had been part of her daily life since the stroke. She explained that over time she had managed to stop taking “the majority of the drugs” prescribed to her following the event.
The actress did not specify which medications she had originally been taking or what they were for. Her account frames the decision as part of a broader effort to regain autonomy after decades of treatment and living with neurological aftereffects.
Stone described the past year as a period of personal recovery. “This has been a period for me in this last year of really reclaiming my life,” she said. That process included both reducing her medications and quitting cannabis.
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Author: Camila Berriex / High Times
