Using cannabis transformed my life after years of chronic pain management with opioids that nearly destroyed me. In 2025, I now own a cannabis company and advocate for legalization. Besides benefiting my health, cannabis also supports my mother in her battle with cancer. Medical cannabis is a vital issue that affects millions, particularly veterans, who continue to suffer due to outdated laws. The current system leaves many without access while dangerous substances remain legal, highlighting the urgent need for change.
After years of using prescription opioids for nerve damage, chronic back pain, and insomnia from my time in service, I turned to cannabis. Not out of rebellion. Not for recreation. But out of desperation.
Millions of Americans-especially veterans-have found real, lasting relief through cannabis. And yet, we're still treated like criminals in half the country.
I had to break the law in 2002 just to stop taking pills that were slowly killing me. I had VA doctors handing me opioids with no exit strategy, no plan, no real conversation about what I was going through.
I still managing pain, sleep, and anxiety with cannabis-without a single relapse into opioids.
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