I was raised in a small town in the bible belt, and as a result, received the full horror story about the Devil’s Lettuce. One puff on a marijuana cigarette would get me hooked for life. And to top it all off, we had to sign a pledge to not do drugs while going through the mandated D.A.R.E program.

Needless to say, that pledge was broken.

In my junior year of high school, I joined the forensics team at my high school and began to learn the art of…