Melissa Etheridge recently sat down for an interview with Yahoo News, where she talked about her relationships with marijuana and her older children from her relationship with Julie Cypher, 20-year-old Bailey Jean Cypher and 18-year-old Beckett Cypher. Here's what she had to say:
“My children have a very clear understanding of cannabis. When I hold it without shame or confusion, then they can understand it as simple as if I was pointing to a bottle of Percocet and said that’s Mama’s medicine. You take the naughtiness out of it and it’s not something that kids then run to...I’d much rather have a smoke with my grown kids than a drink.”
On becoming an advocate for marijuana after battling cancer in 2004:
“I smoked to be normal. I smoked to be out of pain. I smoked to lighten myself because you’re poisoning yourself with chemo. It wasn’t about being high; it wasn’t at all anything like that. It was just being to a place where I could communicate with my children, to where I could get up, to where I could eat, where I didn’t have to go to the hospital. It was great medicine.”
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