As I became older and worked in community service, and was involved with the distribution of Narcan. “But I didn't like the prescription medications they gave me. “In every photograph, I’m in pain,” she added. “As a teenager I experimented with smoking cannabis, but it became my pain medication later in life.”Ī horse riding accident as a child and then a series of car accidents caused her to suffer chronic pain most of her life, with every memory including pain. “I was open to cannabis because my mother helped us to understand that nature is better,” she shared. She’d learned it as a child from her mother, who was a nutritionist and hospital administrator in their home country. “It’s the language, judgements and prejudice that keeps so many from seeking proper help for real illness-and that’s a real shame.” I’m regularly referred to as the ‘Pothead’ Second Lady,” she explained. “There’s so much stigma and misinformation surrounding this plant. To add another layer, she just recently opened up publicly about her cannabis use, after a state legislator made a derogatory comment regarding cannabis users, in lieu of a pending Bill on legalizing cannabis in the state.ĭuring an interview last year with, Fetterman said, “Politics is difficult and complicated, but it also can change lives.” That's kind of how she feels about cannabis. To say the market incident was triggering, as they say, is an understatement. The little girl lived in fear of a knock at the door that might send the family back to Brazil. For the first 15 years they were in America they were undocumented, with their mother telling her and her siblings to “be invisible” each morning as they left for school. due to ongoing violence when she was just eight years old. Originally from Brazil, Gisele Fetterman’s family immigrated to the U.S. But, on this day, she’d made a quick trip to a local market to pick up some yellow kiwis that were on sale, when a woman approached her in line, then followed her to her car yelling expletives, telling her she didn’t belong here, ending with the “N” word.
Governor of the state, Fetterman is typically accompanied by a security detail when out in public. But on that day, the woman only saw my skin, with the knowledge I was foreign born.”īeing the wife of John Fetterman, Lt. “I’m an immigrant, a woman, and a cannabis patient. “Right out the gate, I have three strikes against me,” she shared from her home in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The Second Lady of Pennsylvania was recently spotlighted in the national news, not for her stash, but for the color of her skin.
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