KINDLAND: On Being 37 And Trying Weed For The First Time

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KINDLAND: On Being 37 And Trying Weed For The First Time
Photo Credit: Lauren Gibbs

You might ask how it took me so long. To try cannabis, that is.

Well, for starters: I grew up under the D.A.R.E. generation’s mantra of “Just Say No” and the propaganda that marijuana was “a gateway drug”. With addiction in my family—from alcohol to needle drugs—I avoided everything because I never wanted to flip that genetic switch…

If I hadn’t moved to Colorado in 2014, right when adult use became legal, and if I hadn’t spent a year filming forty female “ganjapreneurs” for Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, I doubt I would have ever tried cannabis. In the ultimate life plot-twist, my first “sesh” was on camera, for all the world to see in the forthcoming film.

Read the full article by Director Windy Borman on The Kindland.