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Sam s best friend Jai died suddenly â the grief veered Sam off a dark path and toward post traumatic growth
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Sam Ellis lost his best friend at 16 years old, an experience that shifted his perspective and gave him renewed motivation.
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Sam Ellis s best friend Jai Reed was in the waiting room when Sam was born, and for the next 16 years they were inseparable.
Their mothers were childhood best friends and the two boys â born six months apart â looked set to extend that bond for another generation. Jai was this really outgoing kid, there wasn t a single person that met him that didn t love him, Sam said.
is going to go up. if you make it legal and more accessible to people, you know, all be guaranteeing that youth drug use is going to go up and that s not something that anybody wants. roger, i want to ask. you laid out arguments for how are we going to get this together get a system in place, a regulatory system in place. and your concerns there. are you concerned that what we ve been told our whole lives, don t smoke weed, it s now going to be okay. california is telling everybody it s okay and it s legal to smoke weed. do you have a problem with that? yeah, there is a strong very strong concern about that. again, the analysis, they said that usage would, you know, would double, go back to 1970s levels. that s something that s let s not kid ourselves, that s something that the proponents of proposition 19 want. these are folks with big marijuana operations here in california. you know, the person who pushed this initiative, ms. jones employer put $1.5 million of his own money