Shan

 I was born and raised in chaos; conceived by a 16 year old girl and 20 year old man both addicted to drugs. Stability was a foreign idea and survival was all too familiar. Bouncing from home to home being exposed to various different drugs I was convinced that drugs were all the same and they were all bad. Throughout school this was reinforced; drug education was about fear, all drugs will kill you, they are all the same and they are all bad. I held this belief into my early twenties, going through life with the weight of trauma on my shoulders and no way to ease it. That was, until I was introduced to cannabis [or at that time it was being called "The Devils Lettuce"] 

Slowly though trial, error, greening out and finding my 'happy high' I was able to find a way to go through life a little easier, the weight on my shoulders began to be a little more manageable. This plant which I feared for most of my life became the thing that saved it.

Now, I am 27 and so proud of everything I have accomplished in life so far, everything I have done while stoned or 'happy high' or being a criminal - whichever way you look at it. 

Cannabis has helped my life in so many ways but, it also creates limitations. Until legalisation I cannot drive, carry, or consume without the fear of prosecution and I know so many other people are in the same or similar situation. We deserve for cannabis to be recognised as the safe, beautiful, miracle plant that it is and I won't stop until cannabis is legalised for everyone.