In the scene at Stephanie's house, when her daughter wakes up and runs into the living room, were they smoking marijuana- or was Stephanie just trying to hide smoking a cigarette from her daughter? The way she smoked it seemed like a joint, she inhailed it long and held it like a joint. Not to mention some of the other characters were coughing.
I've always assumed it's a joint. You'd think a seasoned drinker wouldn't mix wine and pot - seems like a terrible combination to me - but maybe they cut back on the wine in order to enjoy the weed.

yeah and the conversations between miles and maya is "deep" in that stoned kind of fashion maya's slow-camera-zoom diatribe on the glories of wine was rather stoney

Lol! You should've put "spoiler" over the Santa Clause part! Still hilarious though.
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Of course they were. If youre not sure, just notice how she gives it to Maya to hide it when Siena wakes up and comes out to the living room

Was was really bad in this scene was the mother letting 'some guy' she had known for two days put her young daughter to bed.

Putting aside the fact that marijuana happens to be illegal, I actually don't see why smoking marijuana in front of one's kids or in the next room should be objectively worse than drinking wine in front of them (or in the next room). [Some people on this board seem to have an issue with drinking in front of children; I personally have no problem with it, and often enjoy a glass of wine or a tumbler of some scotch in front of my kids. No big thing.]
If marijuana were legal and regulated just as alcohol is, and as culturally accepted (as it seems to be in some parts of the western states, for example), then it seems that from a parental perspective, one could handle them both more or less the same way, making it clear that neither is acceptable for children. It's not at all clear to me that the normalization of marijuana among adults would make any appreciable difference to the incidence with which kids experiment with it in middle school. (IMO, alcohol is far more susceptible to abuse and is far more dangerous than marijuana, so one might reasonably be more upset with kids taking up drinking than with smoking weed. But maybe this is getting off-topic?)

I don't think it's a big deal, as long as you're not driving or operating heavy machinery. That said, I think smoking it with your kids in the next room is pretty lame. That's the kind of think that makes them start smoking it in middle school (where it can really mess up your brain) instead of college (where it's not such an issue.)

Is it really a big deal that people smoke marijuana? I myself haven't smoked pot in 13 years, but when I was young it was common to openly (within reason) smoke it. And from what my kids tell me, 75% of people age 17-27 smoke pot now.
Right, then, old chap. Large brandies all around, what?

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Yes, they were.