“Marijuana Stole My Son”: A Pennsylvania Mother’s Warning to Lawmakers

“Marijuana Stole My Son”: A Pennsylvania Mother’s Warning to Lawmakers

When Jennifer Kelchner looks at her son today, she sees both a young man she loves deeply and a life that has been tragically altered. Living just outside Phoenixville, Jennifer has spent the last decade navigating a nightmare she never imagined when her son, Danny, first experimented with marijuana as a teenager. “I mourn my husband, who passed suddenly—and I mourn my son too,” she says quietly. “The boy I once knew is gone. What’s left is some…