Andrew Zubiri

Jan 10, 2024 | vqronline.org | Paul Reyes |Andrew Zubiri |Garret Keizer |Laura Kolbe

Winter 2023 In this issue, reporter Harriet Brown and photographer Lynn Johnson offer a deep dive into the impact of medicinal cannabis on children who suffer from severe illness. Faced with little to no options, in an often-hostile legal landscape, parents have turned to cannabis oil as a way to accelerate their children’s healing or offset the potent side effects of intense pharmacological regimens—often at great legal risk.

Jan 10, 2024 | vqronline.org | Andrew Zubiri

1. Late January, and I’m dreading the long, dark days of a New England winter. A polar vortex is in the forecast. Four years since my last visit to Manila; I miss the touch of home. Months earlier, I’d noticed a wicker lampshade at T. J. Maxx, then a metal sculpture of a rooster at Goodwill. Even before I checked their tags I felt what we Filipinos call lukso ng dugo or “a leap of the blood”—a sudden, intuitive sense of connection to someone or something otherwise unfamiliar.