Anna

0:00:00Talcon: If you want a pause or a break, just let us know. Yeah. Um, so we're going to start off and we're going to do what is an audio recorded release. And I, um, we'll start off by saying today's date is November 4th, 2025. And if you would please like state your name or your nickname that you like to go by.

0:00:25Anna: Anna Leigh Can.

0:00:28Talcon: Um, and do you consent to us recording you today?

0:00:33Anna: Yes, I do.

0:00:34Talcon: Okay, do you consent to this interview being recorded and archived at the Cannabis Museum?

0:00:40Anna: Yes.

0:00:41Talcon: And do you consent to it being used for future projects like podcasts, documentaries?

0:00:48Anna: Yes.

0:00:49Talcon: Are there any stipulations you want to put on that consent?

0:00:55Anna: I don't think of nothing.

0:00:57Talcon: Okay. If you do, you can get back to us.

0:00:59Anna: Okay. 0:00:59 Anna: You'll have 30 days after we do the interview. Once we give you a copy of the recorded interview, you'll have 30 days to let us know if there's anything that you want deleted from the interview. Also, while we're talking today, if there's something that you're like, cut that, I don't want that on the record, just say it out loud and we'll go back and we'll erase it for you.

0:01:19Anna: Okay.

0:01:22Talcon: Anna, what year were you born and how old are you today?

0:01:25Anna: I was born in 1948 and I'm 77.

0:01:30Talcon: Um, and where did you grow up? Anna: In Paigeville, Ohio. Or Downingtown, the post office was. Right, just right up the road from here.

0:01:39Talcon: So that's why you're in the area, is you grew up here.

0:01:44Anna: Well, I guess you'd say that. I grew up here and then I got married and went to Middleport for 17 years and got a divorce and come back out here.

0:01:54Talcon: Uh -huh.

0:01:55Anna: So.

0:01:57Talcon: What were, what did your parents do for a living? Like, what was your, what was your it like growing up here?

0:02:02Anna: My dad, he was a logger and my mom worked at the university. She retired from there and my dad got lung cancer. Make a long story short, mom got married again and he worked at the university too. So, but they, I think my mom's been dead about 20 years now. So, and daddy was, I think he died in 97. So, a long time ago.

0:02:42Talcon: Yeah. When did you first learn about cannabis or marijuana?

0:02:52Anna: Let me think. It's been so long, I think it was after, I mean, I knew about it. You know. I ain't that dumb, but. Sorry. Anyhow, but when I lived in Middleport, it was, like fentanyl now or something. You know, it was everywhere, people was. 0:03:18 Anna: So, uh, but, and my youngest brother, he, yeah, younger than me, and he's turning me on to pot.

0:03:27Talcon: About how old were you?

Anna: Well, I got married when I was 17, 16, yeah. So, then I come out here.. Well, my brother's 11 years younger than me anyway. I come back out here in, in 1980 .so. I was 32 then when I got into it a lot, you know what I mean? But I'm not a smoker.

0:04:02Talcon: You're not a smoker, so what did it mean to get into it a lot? Getting into the money of it?

0:04:07Anna: Yeah.

0:04:09Talcon: And what did that look like? How were you working with cannabis?

0:04:15Anna: We grew it! And sold it! But you can take this out if you want to, but I want to say one thing. We didn't nickel and dime it to anybody. Not any kids or whatever. We had big, well there's some out there I think, garbage cans full and we put them in a storage place out in Chillicothe. So we had people that bought pounds.