Windell Gail
“The era I grew up in, it was unacceptable.”
My name is Windell Gail. I'm from Baltimore, 21217.
My first memories of cannabis, I was about 10 or 11. The era I grew up in, to the older folks it was unacceptable. They called it wacky green, and things like that, but I guess my peers thought it was okay. I caught contact before but I never tried it. I heard it wasn't good for you; see, I am kind of old.
There was a guy called Art Linkletter. he was a TV host and was in movies and stuff. His daughter tried LSD one day, thought she was a bird, and jumped off the building. We were made to understand that weed was the gateway to that, right? And I wanted no parts of that one. I was traumatized. As a kid that was it, scared straight for me. I was in elementary school when that happened.
With what we know about cannabis today though, I believe that if it has any form of intrinsic qualities, and properties, that would help somebody, by all means let them go for it and utilize it like everything else. If it has a medicinal purpose and some kind of healing qualities proven then they should lighten the restrictions on it.
Hopefully we'll have a dispensary soon. I know they have some places downtown. I mean we have areas that are saturated with cannabis, but let’s just say it’s not the dispensary. It’s available if you don’t mind walking the streets like an Araber. People always sold weed out of the corner store pretty much here. They’ll tell you what they have. But the legal dispensary? Nah, nothing up in this area.
