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A few years ago I finished my “to do” list before I’d finished my morning coffee, then I sat by my computer and cried. Truth. Until that moment, having been a mom for over eighteen years, I hadn’t even known that was a possible achievement. Because as all moms know, there is always something that needs to get done.

Now my children are grown - we just dropped my daughter off at college - and I find myself at this peculiar moment in life for a mid-century-modern mama. I have energy and time, but my purpose feels diminished. So I am more than excited, really honored is a better word, to be the maternal voice of cannabis in your head. My own mother’s voice resonates the fear and misinformation I owned for most of my life; not out of malfeasance, but because what she knew was wrong. Mom is coming around slowly to the idea that everything she knows (and I knew) was part of a misinformation campaign designed to lead us astray, and that now it’s my job to help set the cannabis story straight.

The truth for me is that cannabis helped me find grace in the mundane, something every mother could use more of. When my daughter was born I was not a cannabis consumer, but she and I did spend hours together on the sofa with her in my lap and me watching the Home Shopping Network. That down time with her filled me with blissful enjoyment because she was my second baby and I knew the moments of just sitting and connecting were extremely finite.

I didn’t know that the first time I became I mom.

Before children I had set out on what had been a journey of the unknown. I went back to school and earned my law degree when I was thirty-three. I had so much energy in those days that I didn’t even drink coffee. But the day I became a mom, at the age of thirty-four, was the last in a culmination of twelve months that uprooted my life. At the end of which I was sent home with a new human being and a prescription for Percocets!

Crazy, right? But that’s how I was to begin my journey of motherhood. Exhausted and medicated.

When my son came into this world he had already been with me through my last year of law school; a move into a new home; studying, taking and passing the bar; the death of my grandmother; and the passing of my father (just ten days before he was born). As you can imagine, I was tired and my body did not feel very good. In fact, I would claim that I had never felt worse.

But, because a human being had come out of me I was transformed from a woman with a brain and ambition into a mom afraid of doing everything wrong. Overnight. Our medical system pushed me home in a hurry, my husband had to go back to work. My mother was still mourning, and our medical insurance couldn’t hire a caregiver who would give me time to heal, but it did pay for my opiates.

It takes a sort of mindfulness I never really had to be a really good caregiver; to be able to give up one’s own needs for another. It’s a pure and simple awareness of another’s humanity, and is definitely a form of human intelligence I was in need of after three brutal years in law school. It’s an awareness that arises in the quietest moments and is supposed to be non-judgmental. I suppose it’s called love. But there is a stickiness of living in the smallest, quietest moments, having an awareness of time passing by. It can feel very slow and unproductive in a world that values fast and industrious.

We all know that being present is important for forming relationships, and being present allows us to give to others what we want to share. To be a present parent allows us to live in the moments of pause and accept what we have. It is grace under fire and requires an integrated nervous system and homeostatic balance. That’s where cannabis comes in.

I know “moms” are spoken of as national treasures, without us the world could not go on. But that’s not how we are treated. I want to elevate the voices of all the caregivers and moms in the emerging cannabis space and remind the world how important we are. What I hope to share on The Canna Mom Show, and in my blog space, are the new and caring voices in the emerging cannabis industry. Specifically, the women who are uprooting business as usual. The micro-leaders across this industry who have strong voices and big ideas. Moms, caregivers and women taking care of this world.

But I’m also looking for simple solutions. My parenting style has always emphasized simplicity because I think life is truly hard enough. And one problem you may be having in this world of too much is how to find quality information about the rapidly evolving world of cannabis. Well I hope you will stay right here listening to me and Amie on The Canna Mom Show because we are a simple solution to that problem.