LOS ANGELES -- From the outside, the moms gathered in a Santa Monica, California, living room could have been conferring about carpools, school boards or fundraisers, any of the myriad mundane meet-ups that come with parenting.
A quick survey of the scene might miss the spindly potted pot plant a few feet away on the deck. It most likely would have skipped right over one mother's dangly pot-leaf earrings or another's black T-shirt emblazoned with "Moms who smoke weed aren't bad moms." And you'd practically have to be sitting on one of the couches in the compact, art-filled space to notice that the children's book on the coffee table in front of them was titled "Why Mommy Gets High."
The living room belongs to the author of that book, Wendy Brazill, and on a sunny April morning she invited fellow local moms Angie Stocker, Shonitria Anthony and Alyssa Wraylie over to talk not about homework or healthful snacks but about marijuana and motherhood. (Brazill has a blended family of six now-adult children with husband, comedy writer/director Chad Einbinder.) Brazill "absolutely" believes consuming cannabis made her better at being a mom.
