Overview
- Stone says she discontinued a long-term drug she had taken since her 2001 stroke last September despite doctors advising against stopping it.
- She describes the withdrawal from that medication as lasting about four and a half months and likened it to coming off heroin.
- After stopping the prescription, Stone says she gave up smoking cannabis and became ill for roughly a month when she quit.
- Stone recounts her neurologist warning that modern marijuana products can be dangerous and saying he has seen people die in emergency rooms after using it.
- The account comes from a Variety interview for Nineteen92 that has been republished widely and is presented as Stone’s first-person report rather than independently verified medical documentation.