"Nah."
As if you needed more proof (beyond her endorsement back in January of our current President-elect) that Loretta Lynn has a lot in common most of the fancy Southern grandmas you know: Word's going around that, earlier this year, she took her very first puff of the ol' magic dragon, and she didn't enjoy it much.
“I got glaucoma and they gave me one of these cigarettes,” she told People's Eileen Finan during an interview. “I took one smoke off of it and it hit me right here in the chest. I like to have died! Glaucoma is just going to have to take over.”
While research on important medical uses of marijuana continues, the consensus among authorities seems to be that the drug has only a limited effect when it comes to treating glaucoma. According to a release from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, weed's active chemical THC does lower the pressure on patients' optic nerves (which eventually leads to irreparable vision loss), but only for a short period of time.
But they don't say anything about how much fun you and the Coal Miner's Daughter would have (and the absolutely bonkers stories you'd hear about Conway Twitty) if you got couch-bound together. Per the People interview above, she loves Willie Nelson (her duet partner on "Lay Me Down," the closing track from her spring album Full Circle) and is totally cool with him roasting some bones — she's just not interested.
Please, please, someone tell Loretta's people about vape pens and edibles.
The Metro Council is still at odds with the state attorney general on an ordinance to create a civil penalty for possessing marijuana in small amounts in Nashville, as opposed to a criminal penalty — but nothing's been passed. So for now, if you wanna split a batch of pot cookies and listen to Jota Ese with Loretta, keep it on the DL, dude.
