The Lorelei Group

I think it’s important for people outside the cannabis space to understand why some of us have such a strong belief in this segment of business. See, I don’t even use the product. Having said that, the main reason I chose this area for our practice was my dad.

My dad was a good, caring and compassionate human being. Much of how I see the world was shaped by his “listen first” approach to life. Sadly, underneath his compassion for others, he dealt with mental and physical pain, the likes of which I personally wouldn’t be strong enough to manage. He had intense PTSD from his time in Vietnam, before PTSD was even a thing. He told me stories of waking up in a cold sweat being able to smell the same smells from his time in the war not knowing where he was, the atrocities he’d seen there and then coming home to be spit on when he came home. I won’t get into specifics here out of respect for his memory, but there was an event that took him over 30 years to come to terms with and one that crushed him emotionally for most of his life.

My dad also suffered from a disease called RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) or more recently known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). This is a disease characterized by chronic periods of severe burning pain, most often affecting one of the extremities (arms, legs, hands, or feet). He lost the use of his left hand (he voluntarily had two fingers removed just to have some sort of functionality in it) and suffered pain so debilitating, he had to have a morphine pump implanted in his chest just so he could manage it, unsuccessfully.

The one thing that did help both his emotional and physical pain was cannabis. He didn’t know I knew, but I did, and it always bothered me that he had to manage his pain in the shadows like he was some sort of criminal. He just didn’t want to become addicted to the morphine and the opiates that were being prescribed.

My dad passed away in 2004. I’m proud to be his son and I only wish he didn’t suffer in secrecy for so much of his life. So for this reason, I feel an obligation to try to help others suffering needlessly…and to that end, we try to provide the most professional service we can.

I’m proud of the work we do and I’m happy to be in this space in memory of my dad.