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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Marine Combat Vet Faces Deportation for Legally Using Cannabis to Treat His PTSD 🌿Marine Combat Vet Faces Deportation for Legally Using Cannabis to Treat His PTSD
Because of the government’s irrational commitment to pot prohibition, this combat vet could be forced to choose between death and exile.
Given that on an average day 22 American combat veterans commit suicide, it’s a species of miracle that Ivano Rodriguez is still alive. It may be an even greater miracle that Rodriguez, a resident of Washington State who has used marijuana to treat his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), hasn’t been exiled to Ecuador by a federal immigration judge.
Miracles are always in short supply, and Rodriguez needs at least one more in order to become a U.S. citizen – something most people would assume he earned by serving multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines. Until he becomes a citizen, Rodriguez will continue to live in the shadow of potential deportation to Ecuador, the country where he was born before being brought to the United States...
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