Rosario Dawsonis opening up about her personal relationship with cannabis.
During a panel Wednesday on normalizing cannabis at the Cann x Jane “Cann-Do Holiday” campaign premiere party at NeueHouse Hollywood, the actress andCannboard member, 43, revealed that her parents “grew weed on our fire escape” when she was a kid.
“I dunno man, I grew up in New York and my mom would come to PTA meetings wearing her weed leaf nose ring and I’d be like, ‘Can you just not? ‘Cause all the kids think it’s a booger and all the parents are giving you the side-eye,’ " Dawson recounted.
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“My dad’s white, my dad who raised me, and he would smoke cavalierly,” she continued. “And then at the same time, I had friends who were selling or friends who would be smoking….”
Dawson noted that she managed to help her Black friend slip out of the situation while her white friend got away with a “slap on the wrist.”
“And we knew for a fact that wasn’t gonna be the case for us,” she added.
TheJosie and the Pussycatsactress also praised the medical benefits of cannabis afterher father was diagnosed with cancer.
“When my dad got pancreatic cancer, he was able to talk with his doctor — because he was here in California — about medicinal marijuana, and it stopped him from using five different pills for nausea and pain and appetite and sleeping that he otherwise would’ve been taking,” Dawson said.
source: people.com
