Underpinning his exile is a single drug charge and the related charges that followed, all stemming from his now decades-gone addiction to methamphetamine. For years John had wondered if he could ever return to the U.S., scouring each change in immigration policy, each new federal administration’s rules. He would only ever hit dead ends.
But now, thanks to the landmark Blake decision from the Washington Supreme Court that voided the state’s drug statute, John has begun to allow himself the fantasy of returning to his childhood home — not to live, but to visit the site where his father’s ashes were scattered, to meet his son-in-law and to care for his aging
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