I have done things and seen things in the pursuit of drugs that would make most people shy away from me in horror. How or why I am alive today, only God knows. Yes, I do believe in God, Jesus, Etc. for there is really no other way I could be here today. I ran speed for a dealer down by Gower and Hollywood Blvd, and I was one of the fastest runners around. Me and a partner moved many thousands of dollars a night. It is easy when you don't have to sleep. I begged for money to support my habit during the day, my loyal companion Incubus (God better rest his soul in a special place reserved for heroes or I don't want in) was by my side, keeping that last part of the sanity I had hidden deep within his little beagle-mutt heart waiting lovingly for his brother to return. I should be dead.
Things went bad for the dealer. Turns out me and my partner were moving to much, and a local gang wanted the territory. They almost killed me, and practically held me hostage as an example to the dealers and runners that might try to move in their territory. I turned to the police for help, trying to change my ways. They threatened to arrest me. I turned to state officials, trying to get into programs for people such as me. Apparently I could not qualify because of a $70,000 trust fund (a dead grandfather had left me and I could not even access for another decade). Then, an angel appeared to me in the form of a man. Steve was his name, and he ran a Christian marijuana clinic called Hezekiah, Inc. He was partnered with a doctor who was experimenting in getting people off of hard drugs by prescribing them medical marijuana. It worked. I started visiting the medical clinic on a regular basis, working for my pot by doing the flooring, and other work around the place. They offered me a job at a smaller clinic up north, and I accepted. They even watched my back as I ran from the gangsters that were controlling my life.
Because of this Pot clinic, and God, I am now off of drugs. I have a wife, a daughter, another on the way, a house of my own, and a life that is not in slavery to an addiction. In essence, a plant planted by God has saved my life, yet still I see it reviled, hated, or at the least disregarded by our federal government. I hoped this would change under Obama, but he instead insulted the people who asked him about it and dismissed pot as basically useless for our economy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4894639-503544.htmlI look forward to a time when people are not backwards. Pot is not any worse than alcohol or ciggies, probably better.
To add to the part of pot getting people off of hard drugs, My friend Kat followed me a few months later, prescription in hand, she was my running partner and had been using for five years. She has now been clean for almost four years without a single relapse. My friend Lost also came up. He had been using speed for almost 20 years. He has been clean for close to four years without a relapse. My friend DeFasco followed. He was on speed for a little over a year. He has been clean for nearly four years without a relapse. My friend Dragon followed. He was addicted to a few drugs, He has been clean two years without a relapse. There were a few others as well, but I think you get the point.
Just legalize it already.
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I would also like to point out that under the Bush admin. the clinic was raided by federal officials and I lost my job. Luckily, I have developed many skills over my scant 27 years of life, and was able to find another job. Others were not as fortunate, or wouldn't have been if it was not for the owner of the clinic who opened his house to them and is now legally employing them in his new clinic elsewhere.
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