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This Thanksgiving feels like a game of freeze-tag gone wrong. In the few days I ever get off of work throughout the year, I always look forward to being with friends and family. But today, it’s just me and Lady. I hung my Christmas decorations up earlier than normal because I needed the joy in my daily life visually representing what Christmas sparks within me. One less stocking to hang though, because my parrot, dear sweet Liberty passed away in May due to old age.

In 1936, the propaganda film, Reefer Madness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQlcMHhF3w) was released. It discussed the “new drug menace” of Marijuana, referring to it as a “violent narcotic.” The following year the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress that set out to criminalize possession and use.

“We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch