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Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time
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Paula, Dorothea, and Deirdre tried cannabis on camera in 2014. 70 million views later, the internet still hasn't stopped talking about it.
"Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time" is a short-form viral video that captured three grandmothers trying cannabis together for the very first time — and in doing so, quietly dismantled about fifty years of stoner stereotypes in under five minutes. It was published on November 19, 2014, by Cut (now WatchCut), a Seattle-based YouTube channel known for social experiments with real people in unrehearsed situations. Within 24 hours it had racked up over 4.3 million views. It currently sits at 70 million and counting. Not bad for three women, a bong, and a bag of chips.
Why Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time Still Hits Differently
The video works because it is completely, almost aggressively sincere. Paula, Dorothea, and Deirdre — the three participants — were not playing characters. They were just three older women in Washington state, where recreational cannabis had just been legalized, sitting down to try something they had never tried before. No script. No safety net. Just a bong, a camera crew, and whatever happened next.
What happened next was, predictably, chaotic in the best possible way. The nervousness in the first few minutes is palpable — there is polite laughter, some fumbling with the bong, and the particular kind of focused concentration that people deploy when they are trying very hard not to look like they have no idea what they are doing. Then the vaporizer comes out. Then the giggles start. Then someone mentions ironing.
"I could go iron now for days, I love to iron," said one of the grandmas, with the absolute confidence of someone who has just discovered her superpower. It is, genuinely, one of the more relatable things anyone has ever said on camera.
Grandmas Try Weed: What Actually Happened in the Video, Minute by Minute
The session followed a loose but entertaining arc. First came the bong — the classic, slightly intimidating method — which produced the kind of coughing and wide-eyed expressions that anyone who has been behind a shop counter for more than a week will recognize immediately. Then came the vaporizer, which went down considerably smoother and seemed to be the turning point.
Once the cannabis started doing its thing, the grandmas played Jenga. Unsuccessfully. The tower collapsed more than once, which only made things funnier. Then came Cards Against Humanity, a game specifically designed to be played by people who have either lost their filter or never had one to begin with — so, ideal conditions.
The quotes that came out of this session deserve to be preserved somewhere official.
Grandmas Try Weed and Prove That Cannabis Curiosity Has No Age Limit
One of the more interesting things about the grandmas smoking weed video is what it says about who actually uses cannabis — or wants to. The assumption, baked into decades of pop culture, is that cannabis is a young person's thing. Teenagers in basements. College students. People who own hacky sacks. The Cut video, watched by over 70 million people across 12 years, quietly suggests otherwise.
Paula, Dorothea, and Deirdre were not anomalies. They were curious adults who had simply never had a comfortable, legal opportunity to try something they wondered about. Washington state's legalization in 2012 — with recreational sales beginning in 2014 — created exactly that opportunity, and the timing of the video's November 2014 release was not accidental. It landed right in the middle of a cultural moment when a lot of people were asking the same question: okay, so what is this actually like?
The answer, according to three grandmothers and 70 million viewers, is: surprisingly fun, slightly chaotic, and very good for your relationship with chips.
From Our Counter
We have been running this shop since 1999, which means we have had this exact conversation more times than we can count. Someone's mum comes in. Someone's opa. A retired schoolteacher. A grandmother visiting from the countryside who has "always been a little curious." They are almost always nervous, almost always polite, and almost always leave with more questions answered than they expected. The grandmas in the Cut video just happened to have a camera crew watching.
Which Weed Grandma Are You?
1. Someone hands you a bong for the first time. Your reaction?
2. The munchies hit. What are you reaching for?
3. You draw a wildly inappropriate Cards Against Humanity card. You:
4. How do you describe the experience afterward?
Grandmas Smoking Weed: The Legacy of a Five-Minute Video That Reached 70 Million People
The grandmas smoking weed video did something that years of policy debate, academic research, and advocacy campaigns had struggled to do: it made cannabis feel normal. Not edgy, not dangerous, not countercultural — just normal. Three people tried something new, had a genuinely good time, played some games badly, and said they would do it again. That is the whole video. That is also, it turns out, an enormously effective piece of cultural persuasion.
Cut clearly understood what they had, because they followed it up with "Grandpas Smoking Weed for the First Time" — which suggests the format had legs, and also that grandparents as a demographic are underrepresented in cannabis content and fully capable of carrying a video on their own.
The original grandmas smoking weed video was published on November 19, 2014, pulled in 4.3 million views in its first 24 hours, and has now been watched more than 70 million times across 12 years. Those numbers are not just impressive for a YouTube video — they represent 70 million moments where someone watched three older women try cannabis for the first time and thought, huh, maybe it is not such a big deal after all.
Which is, when you think about it, exactly the point.
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À propos de cet article
Luke Sholl has been writing about cannabis, cannabinoids, and the broader benefits of nature since 2011, and has personally grown cannabis in home grow tents for more than a decade. That first-hand cultivation experience
Cet article de blog a été rédigé avec l’aide de l’IA et relu par Luke Sholl, External contributor since 2026. Supervision éditoriale par Toine Verleijsdonk.
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