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Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck earned her Ph.D with a dissertation on black names: “I’ve grown into my name because I am a strong woman. I’ve had to be." https://t.co/GA7huz3Q9f
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) June 20, 2019
When I saw Marijuana Pepsi trending on Twitter this morning, I figured “damn maybe I need to start drinking Pepsi again,” but nope. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck is a woman that just got her Ph.D and probably already has a killer list of patients by now.
She told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “People make such a big deal out of it, I couldn’t get away from it.”
According to Huffington Post,
Vandyck told the publication that she once challenged a professor who did that to her at Whitewater, saying they “didn’t ask anyone else that. Why are you asking me? My name is Marijuana, thank you.”
Still, Vandyck said she has no desire to change her name and rejects nicknames like Mary. The holder of a new doctorate degree credits her mom, who gave her the name in the first place, with making her the woman she is now.
And just so we’re clear, there IS NO MARIJUANA PEPSI.
Congratulations, Dr. Pepsi. Read more from Huffington Post HERE.
