Did any of you read about the Veterans group that traveled around the state of Florida promoting Medical Marijuana for veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? They were on the news during a demonstration down in Pasco County holding up signs and making their voices heard, they also made appearances in other Florida cities I wish I had known about it I would love to have been able to talk to them. It’s wonderful that more groups like this are standing up for their rights to use a medicine that is safe and cheap, and so sad that people who risked their lives for their country have to live in fear of arrest for using a harmless herb that brings them some relief from the horrors that they suffered in foreign battlefields. Many of these veterans tell the same story, how when they go to get treatment for their PTSD they are prescribed medications that are not only expensive but can also have dangerous side effects. Some of these side effects include causing suicidal tendencies in the patients, which is pretty scary for someone who is already going through hell every day. This fact of course does not deter our politicians to keep it illegal because it makes them look good to their conservative constituents, and their campaigns are being bankrolled by the pharmaceutical companies who view medical marijuana as their number one enemy. There are apparently over 50,000 veterans residing in Pasco County alone, and god knows how many more across the state as a whole. The suicide rate among veterans is staggering with statistics saying one is killing themselves every 62 minutes, that is a sad thing to think about and if a blunt will keep them from going over the brink why is it still illegal? The evidence is all there for the benefits that medical marijuana can provide for these people, and every day that we delay it being legalized in the state is another day we lose more veterans to suicide. With the help of medical marijuana these people could actually become productive citizens again and get regular jobs and get back to having a normal life again, which if I was living in their hell I wouldn’t care about the legality I would smoke up anyway. I know if I laid my life down on the line fighting insurgents on the streets of Bagdad I wouldn’t let the government tell me I couldn’t use an herb that helps me deal with the horrors I witnessed over there, hopefully some lawmakers will actually listen to these veterans and do something about this injustice. Having veterans on our side gives us even more of a powerful voice in the fight for medical marijuana, every day the demand for legalization grows when will our lawmakers finally wake up and smell the coffee?
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