Lizzie Post’s Marijuana Manners

As a longtime cannabis enthusiast who is also the great-great-granddaughter of 20th-century manners matron Emily Post, Lizzie Post frequently fielded suggestions from friends and family over the years that she write a book on weed etiquette. But as states across the country legalized marijuana — thereby uplifting a historically underground culture and opening the doors for new types of stores, methods, scientific studies, and the like — the notion became less joke and more reality. 

She was further encouraged by her cousin Daniel Post Senning, with whom she runs the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vermont. Founded by Emily back in 1946, the organization continues to update guides, produce webinars, host the Awesome Etiquette podcast, and run in-person training programs for businesspeople, children, and wedding professionals. 

Then, out of the blue, a publisher contacted Lizzie, wondering if she could suggest potential authors for such a book. “She had no idea I smoked pot,” recalled Post of the agent’s email inquiry. “When I wrote back and said we’d be interested in writing that book, they thought that would be amazing.”