What Weed Means to Me
11 min readMar 24, 2022
Near the end of 2014, I presided over a small kitchen island filled with an array of marijuana-laced products trying to decide which to give my son, Sam, who recently celebrated his 4th birthday. My options included a homemade jar of peanut butter that filled the room with a skunky smell, a chocolate bar wrapped in tinfoil, a handful of multi-colored hard candies in a plastic Ziploc baggie, and a red velvet cookie with buttercream icing. My recently…