She got involved in medical marijuana after getting frustrated with her acting career.
"I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all," she said.
Even the blue ski cap from the "Blair Witch Project" poster?
"That's the only thing I kept. I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay," said Donahue, who recently attended her Upper Darby High School 20-year reunion.
Her new career started after Donahue met a man who had lived in "Nuggettown," a Northern California community where growing weed was common. Donahue "was always an avid gardener," so she took right to it.
"I became a solitary country girl," said Donahue, who lived in Los Angeles for years after graduating from the University of the Arts in 2005. She gave up cultivating pot once she decided to write about her experiences, which included her doubts about continuing after her friend got busted by the feds on the day of her first pruning.
She said her indoor-grown product was high-grade, a necessity in the competitive world of medical marijuana.
"I think you're going to see [medical marijuana] on a lot of ballots over the next few years," she predicted. Sixteen states, including New Jersey - where no dispensaries have yet opened - have laws allowing medical pot.
"There has been enough support for medical use if not outright legalization that I don't think it will go away," she said.
Residency rules
You may have seen ?uestlove featured in US Weekly's "25 Stylish New Yorkers" list or being pronounced the "People's Bandleader" by New York magazine.
The Roots leader laughed yesterday when we asked him about it. He said he's not used to being called a New Yorker, though he did start renting a place there several months ago. He assured us that "Philly will always be my home."
