Marijuana: A Memoir, Part 1
Marijuana became a gateway drug in my life, but before that chapter began, I spent much of my childhood in Burbank with my grandmother, Connie, and my step-grandfather, John D. Clement. He was a World War II veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and UCLA graduate who became a father figure in my life. Some of my strongest childhood memories are of our camping trips to Bishop and the afternoons we spent playing baseball together before cancer took his life in 1994.