![]() ![]() “For me, cannabis is something that helps with my general anxiety, just trying to get out of my own head, so I can relax and be cool.” “I think it’s because as women we have so much that we’re thinking about all the time and it can be really hard to shut our brains off, with all the things we deal with at work and home,” she says. Since the single’s release, Morrow says she’s received a lot of responses from women sharing that their husbands feel the same way about them when they smoke or take an edible. Morrow thought, “Yeah sure, why not?”Īs they walked around, she says her husband looked over and said, “Hey, you’re a lot nicer when you’re high.” Morrow immediately thought it would make for a good song and got to work. Jason was getting stoned in the van before entering the madness and asked her if she wanted to take a hit. The idea to write a song about cannabis after all those years of thinking it “just wasn’t for her” came about while she and her husband and bandmate Jason Morrow, who she started Whiskey Gentry with, were Christmas shopping in an Atlanta City mall-undoubtedly an ambitious, anxiety-ridden task. Living in Tennessee, where both medical and adult-use cannabis are illegal, it’s been hard for Morrow to get what she wants-unless she’s on tour. “Weed chills me out, so I’m not wound up so tight.” “My anxiety definitely ramps up in nighttime, so it’s been really nice to lean into that and just smoke some weed and turn my brain off and relax-not to have to think about what’s happening tomorrow, or what happened today, and just be more present.” hip joint: Her hit single’s video features Morrow, who suffers from anxiety, hanging out with a three-foot-tall joint that resembles a Sesame Street character. Lately, Morrow says her cannabis ritual takes place at the end of the day, just before bedtime. “It chills me out, so I’m not wound up so tight.” “I got a strain I really liked and started dipping my toe in it and noticed there was a huge difference in my personality in a good way when I’d get a little high,” she says. So, she walked into a dispensary and explained to the budtender how she felt when consuming cannabis-how it heightened her anxiety and made her feel panicky. “Everyone in my band smoked weed, and I was like it would be nice to have something that could relax me, but not make me feel stupid,” Morrow says. Years later while touring out with Whiskey Gentry in Colorado, Morrow decided to give cannabis another try. “It wasn’t an enjoyable experience for me for a really long time.” “That’s the interesting thing with panic attacks, because once you run one down, your brain can trigger you to think it again,” she says. “I must have just smoked way too much for my brain to handle.”Īfter that, every time Morrow tried to smoke weed, her nerves would rise to uncomfortable levels. “I definitely had a panic attack that first night,” Morrow says. She was 15 years old, with her older brother and his friends out in the garage while their mom was out. Morrow’s first time smoking weed wasn’t a great experience. “I was the antithesis of a stoner in my twenties.” “If you would’ve told me when I was in my twenties that Cannabis Now would be interviewing me, I’d be like ‘yeah, fucking right’ because I just didn’t have any space in my life for marijuana, and now it’s something I use every day,” Morrow says, laughing. Speaking with Morrow from her home, the vocalist seems to be pleasantly surprised with the turn her life’s taken over the past few years. “The song is a very intimate look inside my brain, my thoughts about myself and how I fit in the world around me,” she says. ![]() It’s not difficult to understand what these lyrics mean-Morrow puts it all out there. ![]() Like a true friend, cannabis is there for her when she needs it. They chill on the couch together, go out and take photo booth selfies together, and yes, get high together. The song’s accompanying music video features Morrow hanging out with a three-foot-tall joint that somewhat resembles a Sesame Street character-a similarity one may interpret as another attempt to normalize the plant. The first single, “ Only Nice When I’m High,” is a seemingly lighthearted, catchy tune, but it has a big message that’s simultaneously combatting the stigmas surrounding both mental health and cannabis. But now Morrow’s exploring a different, truer side of herself with the recent release of her debut album, People Talk.Ī window into Morrow’s life, the lyrics on the ten-track record all describe her own experiences. The curly-haired, curvy blonde is perhaps best known for her decade-long tenure as frontwoman of the popular Atlanta-based Americana band, The Whiskey Gentry. She says “almost forty” thoughts occasionally take over her brain, attempting to sabotage the wins of her past and present. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Lauren Morrow is turning 38 this summer. ![]()
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