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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Veterans Are Demanding Medical Marijuana. Why Won’t More Candidates Embrace It? 🌿Veterans Are Demanding Medical Marijuana. Why Won’t More Candidates Embrace It?
David Bass, who served 21 years in the U.S. Army, says he tried medical marijuana in a moment of desperation. He suffered from chronic pain and PTSD as a result of multiple active duty tours in Iraq, and his doctor at the VA gave him intense narcotic and psychotropic drugs.
“I was getting really addicted to Hydrocodone,” he told ThinkProgress. “And my other drugs gave me side effects like suicidal ideation, sexual impotence, and just left me feeling really drugged out like a zombie. When I talked to the doctor at the VA hospital, he said I had to keep taking them for at least two years. But I just couldn’t see going through that for two more years before even discussing getting off them.”
Bass, now a high school literature and creative writing teacher, says since switching to marijuana to treat his mental and physical ailments, his life has...
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