Sharon Stone on Quitting Weed and Stopping a Stroke Medication Despite Doctors’ Orders: ‘It Was Like Going Off of F—ing Heroin’

The Oscar-nominated actress also talks about working with her son Roan, her return to painting and modeling and plans to star on Broadway.

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

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Sharon Stone is done smoking weed.

Her journey to cut ties with cannabis began when she was put on several medications after she suffered a near-fatal stroke in 2001.

“I got off one of my medications that I was on for my stroke last September, and they said I couldn’t go off of it,” Stone tells me. “They said, ‘You can’t go off of it. You can never go off of it.’ I’m like, ‘I’m going off it,’ and it was like going off of fucking heroin. I was sick as a frigging dog for four and a half months. I just thought, ‘I want my life back.’ I had gotten off the majority of the drugs over the years that they had put me on. But I was like, ‘I want a drug-free life.’”

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