'Dad was obviously excited to be taking his offspring to one of his favorite places.'
Deya DrakeA man holding a package of medical cannabis"Moose and Lobster" strain grown in Maine and purchased at a dispensary in Rumford, Maine.2017, at the stroke of midnight, my dad was one of the first customers.
When I visited him and my mom in Reno shortly after the weed gates opened, it was expected that a visit to a dispensary would be on my agenda, and that Dad would be escorting me. No longer were the casinos and brothels the crown jewels of Nevada. Now there was legal weed, something to really be proud of, and the man was prime to show off the shiny new toy to his out-of-towner daughter.
Dad was obviously excited to be taking his offspring to one of his favorite places, but this lecture, which could’ve been ripped from “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” was also a deflection. We aren’t good at getting deep when it’s just the two of us. Just an hour before the dance debacle, having obtained a certificate of ministry from the Universal Life Church, Dad stood up in front of all our wedding guests and married my husband and I, using a Mark Twain-themed script that I wrote especially for our ceremony . That task ignited not even the slightest ember of panic in him.
Even before the legalization of marijuana sweeping the country, we knew that, thanks to the skin we were born in, the worst we really ever risked from indulging was judgment from our neighbors and peers, and perhaps a court date we could talk our way through. Never the big, life-destroying consequences like unjust incarceration historically affecting people of color ― a result of systemic racism and the war on drugs. We still have a long way to go until policy meets equity.
He didn’t understand why I would walk away from a promising career for something much less stable. And I didn’t understand why he, of all people, didn’t understand that it wasn’t promising to me. When I heard about this adventure, I was mortified ― how could a man with a big family who loves him and nearly 70 years of life experience be so stupid? A part of me was also proud to have a senior citizen father with a story like that.
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