There are many other “victims” of today’s marijuana. These include, children, babies, unborn fetuses, animals, and our environment.
Cadence Boyer, was a second grader who lit up a room and was beloved by everyone who knew her. At 7, “Cadence loved to be in front of a camera, ride her bike and swim.” Washington voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, and cannabis shops opened to the public in summer 2014. That year…
Within seconds I stopped being a parent and mother. I lost my only child, Stephen Mager, on February 14, 1996. All of this happened during noon break on a school day. Stephen was a passenger in a car that was driven by his best friend. He was sitting in the back seat without his seat…
When you bury a child, you die with them. Yet you still wake up each morning and somehow have to function in your “new” normal. I’ve always considered myself as “politically” correct so when marijuana became “medicine,” I didn’t think it would ever affect my life. It’s too late for me and many other parents…
Tanya Guevarra, 25, and her 5-week-old son, Adrian, were driving to pick up a prescription in their hometown of Dacono, Colorado. Steven Ryan hit them head-on, killing Tanya instantly, but Adrian suffered several days before dying. As is typical after a fatal collision, four hours elapsed before a blood sample was taken from Ryan. The…
My heart is broken. I taught my son the dangers of peer pressure. I told him action is never justified simply because someone else says it’s okay. On the evening of October 6, 2017, a knock on my front door brought a parent’s worst —a police officer informed me Henry had been in a horrific…
“As the other dogs attack the bait dog, the attack dog is shot and killed.” In Shasta and Siskiyou counties, drug gangs place “bait dogs” in marijuana growing operations tied to posts, so that other drug dealer dogs will be attracted to attack the helpless dogs, which have their mouths wired shut. As the other…
“I couldn’t breathe. I’m prone to asthma attacks, and every time my next door neighbors smoked marijuana in their apartment and on their patio, it irritated my lungs. I would cough so much. I’d throw up and couldn’t breathe.” Marijuana use. I almost died from it, and I wasn’t even the one using! I was…