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Oklahoma Veteran Faces Life In Prison For Treating Ptsd With Marijuana

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This ain't the America i was sold:

“He was taking 13 pills a day, and it was just killing his liver. He was having all these issues with his body and he just wanted to try something more natural to just see if he could do without that many pills a day,” she said.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/oklahoma-veteran-with-ptsd-faces-life-in-prison-for-treating-ptsd-with-marijuana/207335/

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Good Post N Kelly,

I hope that some veterans organizations will come to his aid and help him, defending this veteran would help legalize it, some states has approval and I hope this veteran is acquitted.(this is ridiculous)

I am from Oklahoma and this is mindboggling....makes me ashamed to be from Okla. eh!

The VA is over medicating all of us veterans that have ptsd and its going to take it's toll on most of us & if cannabis is helping why not make it where we can use it.

And yet there cutting back on pain meds & opiates ect,,ect,, don't make a lick of sense.

jmo

.......................Buck

I am not an Attorney or VSO, any advice I provide is not to be construed as legal advice, therefore not to be held out for liable BUCK!!!

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Thanks for the info bud, and I currently take 35 pills a day, and at 33 don't seem to be Curing me!!!

100% PTSD

100% Back

60% Bladder Issues

50% Migraines 
30% Crohn's Disease

30% R Shoulder

20% Radiculopathy, Left lower    10% Radiculopathy, Right lower 
10% L Knee  10% R Knee Surgery 2005&2007
10% Asthma
10% Tinnitus
10% Damage of Cranial Nerve II

10% Scars

SMC S

SMC K

OEF/OIF VET     100% VA P&T, Post 911 Caregiver, SSDI

 

 

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Ridiculous...someone in their legal system needs to exercise some common sense and put an end to this.

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They wanted to up my dosage. I said no. They seemed surprised. The pills I take do help but my symptoms are still there. The onlyv way I could smoke marijuana would be if I were 100% P&T. I would get fired for dirty urine.

I would rather smoke one joint in the evening than take the pills I take. I would gladly sign a petition and send money for his defense. Oklahoma I have always just shook my head in disbelief at what they do.

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Obama just went to Oklahoma and pardoned a bunch of people, but I don't know if he was one of them. I hope so, but I doubt it.

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