“Randy Michael was getting high on 4/20. For a high schooler who was at the time relatively new to marijuana, the holiday was nothing short of an opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to the drug. His best friend, Aaron, had reached out to him to play video games, but Randy declined the offer for the express purpose of getting high with other friends of his.
Aaron took his life the next day. It’s been said that when someone ends their life, their pain does not necessarily disappear but is passed on to those who cared for and loved them. Randy Michael basically proved this years later, when his mom found a diary entry recalling the wound of his best friend committing suicide, and the other of feeling like he could have been there to prevent it. ‘My best friend… took his life, and I smoked the pain away, but not for good,’ Randy Michael mused.”
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