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I was 18 years old in the Nam, was the first time I smoke weed. I didn’t like it, as a grunt, I was allready paranoid enought too smoke, so I didn’t. When I came back to the World, it seemed everyone was smoking pot. I found myself getting out of control and since most of my friends were using, I started smoking pot and it helped me to give up cigarretts, I was a Marlbro man. It kept me cool and I never lost my temper and I wasn’t aggressive at all. It keeped me in check and for 20 years or so I smoked as It helped me sleep at night, which was hard too do unless I had some booze, but drinking wasn’t my thing. I had a business and two kids and quit smoking as I had too pay attention as I was out at sea on my fishing boat, a little dangerious but I didn’t get shot at. I’d come home so tired, I could sleep and weed is the best drug in the World for everyone, not just Veterans, who really need it. I never asked for a disability but after my divorse, after 22 years being married, I ended up in the VA hospital. The loss of my kids, I wanted to die, as my life was over. I was awarded 100% 6 months later and when I got the phone call of the news, I didn’t even know what the women on the phone was taking about, I thought it was a joke.
I was given many drugs as I was in an experiment and I was like a zombie, as one doctor asked me,”do you take all that stuff”?” That enough drugs to kill an elephant”, so I cut back and started smoking weed again, and it was a freaken miracle as the pain went away and today I get class one drugs, Diazepam, Methylphenidate, clonidine,diclofenac, lorsartan, ranitidine,Trazodone,verapamil, loratadine. How’s that for a list? Big drug companies are making all these drugs and stock investors bottom line is profitable.
We can grow weed for free as they would lose Billions if the VA perscribed Marawana and money is what it’s all about. Someone years ago when the Food and Drug Aministration was formed, discovered that there wasn’t enough Heroin and Cocane users too fund their new agency, so they added weed to the list as many poor minorities smoked weed and it was added to that class one list of drugs, it was an intentional misclassafacation as it’s like comparing Jack Daniels to a wine cooler at best. Here it is.
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930)
FBN public service announcement used in the late 1930s and 1940sThe use of cannabis and other drugs came under increasing scrutiny after the formation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) in 1930,[12] headed by Harry J. Anslinger as part of the government’s broader push to outlaw all drugs.
“When the present administration took office ten countries had ratified the Geneva Narcotic Limitation Convention. The United States was one of these ten…. It was my privilege, as President, to proclaim, on that day, that this treaty had become effective throughout the jurisdiction of the United States….On Jan. 1, 1933, only nine nations had registered their ratification of the limitation treaty. On Jan. 1, 1935, only nine States had adopted the uniform State statute. As 1933 witnessed ratification of the treaty by thirty-one additional nations, so may 1935 witness the adoption of the uniform drug act by at least thirty-one more states, thereby placing interstate accord abreast of international accord, to the honor of the legislative bodies of our States and for the promotion of the welfare of our people and the peoples of other lands.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1935 in a radio message read by United States Attorney General, Homer Stille Cummings )[13]
Anslinger claimed cannabis caused people to commit violent crimes, act irrational, and act overly sexual. The FBN produced propaganda films promoting Anslinger’s views and Anslinger often commented to the press regarding his views on cannabis.