goodblend hosts special screening for Veterans Day
, a documentary showing how military personnel are using cannabis to deal with mental and physical trauma and get off opiates to regain their lives.
“When I heard that veterans were using cannabis for , I made it my mission to investigate it,” he says. “I had smoked prior to the military, but after I joined we were preached that it was an evil drug and a career killer and no good can come from it – only to find out we’ve been lied to the whole time. It’s been a life-changer for me.”“My goal is that the VA can do what is already being done in Canada and prescribe cannabis to our veterans for trauma.
“Especially with the IEDs in Afghanistan and Iraq, veterans coming back with multiple injuries and thus getting treated with multiple drugs,” he explains. “So they’re dealing with PTSD and anxiety and trauma mentally on top of a traumatic brain injury on top of a dismemberment or any other number of wounds.
“That’s the central focus of my advocacy, because there’s so much misinformation out there,” he says. “It’s getting better and the American public is a lot more accepting of it, but the people we’re not getting through to are the lawmakers and leaders who are still demonizing it. The more of us that speak up about it, the less the lawmakers can ignore it.”
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