Putting It Bluntly

Craving a connection with a parent is a universal feeling. For Sid Drmay, they found a connection with their father through smoking cannabis together when Sid became a grown-up. Sid and their dad didn’t always have the easiest connection but found that through taking time together for a smoke, a bond started to form where there was once something a little more flimsy.

Musician Tica Holiday has been a cannabis consumer for a long time. At first, the Bahamian-born contemporary R&B performer wasn’t exactly sure if she should try it. But it eventually opened up a world of creative opportunity for her as a musician and performer. Tica takes us through the creative process and cannabis, and what she calls “frequencies.”

Living with an invisible, chronic illness is difficult enough. Not knowing how to treat it or get to a place where you’re more than just “functioning” adds another layer of frustration. On this episode, Ashley Keenan discusses her medical journey and how cannabis has greatly increased her quality of life. Ashley also takes us through the financial roadblocks she run into. How chronic illness and the treatment of it is expensive, and at times there are little resources to help alleviate that for her.

Writer Karen Geier first consumed cannabis like a lot of other people do: recreationally, as a teenager. Little did she know that the tokes and laughs and buzzes she felt back then would be extraordinarily beneficial for her later on—when she needed to relieve the near detrimental migraines she’d begin to have in her early 20s.

For cannabis activist and blogger Caelan Hart, cannabis is central to why and how they live their life today. Caelan’s story of overcoming addiction, injury, misdiagnosis—and more—is extraordinary.

(CW: sexual violence) For freelance writer and sexual violence advocate, Roslyn Talusan, cannabis consumption is very personal. Roslyn turned to cannabis to control anxiety and help her through the healing and recovery process of sexual assault. Her primary goal is get back a sense of ownership and groundedness with her body. But it wasn’t always that way.

Let’s talk about sex. And cannabis. What happens when you put the two together? Pleasure is an inherently beautiful, nourishing thing. Writer Corinne Przybyslawski tells us the story of the first time she experienced an orgasm—and, surprise surprise, she was high. The added glow? Her relationship with her body and sex changed for the better because of it.

Sobriety, motherhood, education. These are the things on Alana Nugent’s mind when it comes to cannabis consumption. Alana is the marketing director for bebo mia, an online doula training organization, and Baby and Me Fitness. She’s also been sober for a couple of years, but cannabis consumption is a big part of her recovery. We’ll learn how she is navigating that journey and what it’s like to do that as a mother.

How do you talk to your kids about cannabis? On our first episode, Sarah talks to Matt Hart, Indie88 radio personality and co-host on the Josie Dye show, about being a parent who consumes cannabis. What has Matt revealed to his son about his cannabis consumption? What rules does he have? Or does he have any at all?

There’s no one way to make cannabis a part of your life. For host Sarah MacDonald, it’s a complicated part of hers.