Carol Francey waxes nostalgic when she thinks back to the first time she tried pot.

The year was 1966, the place was Toronto’s hippie-packed Yorkville neighbourhood, and she was 17-and-a-half-years-old.

The Victoria resident has been using pot ever since, she says — some 52 years. And for most of that time, she did it in secret.

“I worked for the government most of my life, I was a school teacher, I was teaching elementary school,” says Francey, who now uses cannabis for recreational and medical reasons. For a long time, she even kept the secret from her son.

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