--- title: Whoopi Goldberg Loves Marijuana, She Says in Denver Post Article description: Writing for The Denver Post, Whoopi Goldberg describes her love affair with her vaporizer pen, which offers relief from severe headaches caused by her glaucoma and allows her to control the amount of THC—the active ingredient in marijuana—she ingests canonical: https://time.com/68871/whoopi-goldberg-marijuana-column-denver-post/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-18T22:24:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:55.745Z og:title: Whoopi Goldberg Loves Marijuana, She Says in Denver Post Article og:description: Writing for The Denver Post, Whoopi Goldberg describes her love affair with her vaporizer pen, which offers relief from severe headaches caused by her glaucoma and allows her to control the amount of THC—the active ingredient in marijuana—she ingests og:url: https://time.com/68871/whoopi-goldberg-marijuana-column-denver-post/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77b219f239ce23c8/69868b69cd68486b77094383/167006647.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tribeca Film Festival 2013 Portrait Studio - Day 1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Whoopi Goldberg Loves Marijuana, She Says in Denver Post Article twitter:description: Writing for The Denver Post, Whoopi Goldberg describes her love affair with her vaporizer pen, which offers relief from severe headaches caused by her glaucoma and allows her to control the amount of THC—the active ingredient in marijuana—she ingests twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt77b219f239ce23c8/69868b69cd68486b77094383/167006647.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Whoopi Pens Column About How Much She Loves Weed  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Apr 18, 2014 10:24 PM UTC  Whoopi Goldberg at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013 portrait studio on April 17, 2013 in New York City. Whoopi Goldberg at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013 portrait studio on April 17, 2013 in New York City.Larry Busacca—Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Apr 18, 2014 10:24 PM UTC In a column for The Denver _Post_ titled “My vape pen and I, a love story,” [published](http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/04/17/whoopi-vape-pen-love-story-column/9571/) Thursday, Whoopi Goldberg extols the virtues of marijuana and describes her close relationship with her vaporizer pen. “The vape pen has changed my life. No, I’m not exaggerating. In fact, her name is Sippy. Yes, she’s a she. And yes, I named her Sippy because I take tiny, little sips — sassy sips, even — from her. And with each sip comes relief — from pressure, pain, stress, discomfort,” Goldberg writes. Her column appeared in the Colorado paper’s marijuana section, The Cannabist. The vaporizer pen, she says, offers relief from severe headaches caused by her glaucoma and allows her to control the amount of THC—the active ingredient in marijuana—she ingests. She says she’s discrete when using the implement in places where medicinal marijuana is not legal. Goldberg, who quit smoking cigarettes two years ago, says she tried smoking joints but found it too harsh—that’s when her daughter turned her on to the vaporizer. “I took a sip. It was beautiful. 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