no patient should suffer needlessly without it and no patient should ever go to jail for following the advice of a doctor join it and learn more about the exciting science of medical marijuana welcome to say m m n j t v m can well see executive director of the coalition for exactly what was going on i was kind of unconscious in how he came to it in the emergency room so i was kind to manage just on you know that part alone but that led me since it happened to my face and my head it ended up giving me a traumatic brain injury  so forth it was kind in new stuff so i didn't get diagnosed on any of that after this happened i went on bed rest i stayed with my company in boot camp and so forth disorder did it know about the sleep apnea so i ended up continuing or they didn't know anything was going on and i was having issues with reading because of the brain damage that no one really knew about know was and tell them that i couldn't read that well i just struggled through i still passed all my tests and whatnot and graduated with my with my group and yet you had some very unfortunate experiences there as well as a result of this injury i understand well because of the injury in boot camp and getting it properly diagnosed because of it being new all the ins and outs submarine because all the facets pack like i was on there's only about one hundred guys on the back so everybody needs to know how everything on the boat works because god forbid something happens to somebody and somebody else has to take it over for since i was across class machinist mate boiler technician and being a petty officer i was expected to get my qualifications done quicker because of being a our air our aircraft carriers could come in with you know our air support right sure ok so that's kind of what i got to see as far as war and so forth but as far as what i and they didn't know is the seizure they just thought i fell asleep you know i was being laser or whatnot they had me stand what's called captains mast was on the submarine was reduced in rank from a third class petty officer to a scene that i was also restricted to submarine for forty five days when you're on restriction on submarines they may dress you up in prison dungarees they have like a number stenciled on yeah and they have your last name on the other side you're pretty much you know you have a black mark against you and like i said with there being less than one hundred people and everybody's going to hear about it  cheap petty officer know you know what was going on but the hazing and trying to get my qualifications down he didn't really want to hear about it they went to do an investigation and  it and because everybody was kind of working together it was you know this is a black sheep against everybody everybody else was going to work well they pulled family so i was cut off from my family i was cut off from my friends i was given all the all the bad assignments inner and duties on the bed trust me it wasn't and then because i was doing it and trying to do the qualifications i ended up falling asleep or watch again and that's kind of when things turned a bit darker it was made to stand captain's mast again i wasn't done with the forty five day restriction when i was kept a mess again and i was reduced from and a three to eighty two which is a seaman recruit the name calling turned up a bit when they were trying to light a fire and or my but because i guess they wanted me to give up i just never gave up and i stuck at it however because the me coming forward about you know they saying the things that they were doing they kind of it was from just hazing in name calling in s for two things getting to a physical nature heading different types of torture where they would you know get on me a number they would wrap me up in duct tape  i've experienced waterboarding or in new world occasions i've that's actual torture yeah i know it feels like to have a talent or my face and be held while they're pouring water on the tow sexual trauma or m s t the physical assaults and torture and so forth was the beginning of it but when they would do what they did with  it happen on a regular occasion and it would being unable to talk to anybody about it without being able to get any kind of escape from it i ended up snapping  because they viewed me as being homicidal or suicidal they put me on watch and they got me moved off of the bed which was probably a good thing because i was conspiring to kill my attackers there was four of them and i just started actually working on cognitive therapy techniques command say for try to cover these kind of things and back in the day with hazing and so forth they were like he just needs to suck it up right right right he thing was an accepted practice in many military it was yeah i'm so sorry that you had to endure all that night i really am and as a result you suffer from it still now you severe p t s d severe post complex in nature because it was it wasn't just physical it was mental it was a medicine all it was experiencing symmetry different things you know from people that are supposed to trust me right these are guys that i was i was training with these are guys i was supposed to have the mindset that we're all together on this and instead it felt like me against the entire debate first try you on typical pharmacological kind of working on a book or a neck called a long hard road out of the deep blue sea it's about military hazing and military sexual trauma in the lasting after effects and so then you found marijuana to be helpful yeah yeah i did with three c p t s d there's well over thirty sometimes just associated with that type cannabis helps me with the you know across the across the board yeah it helps me we hear this so often a colleague of mine brian crumb from new mexico he runs a cleans a nurse practitioner in new mexico he runs sage clinic and he he he's allowed to recommend marijuana for p t s d sufferers and he has a clinic there with needs done it for several hundred patients and he says that he did a study of the several hundred patients that use marijuana for p t s d and he said that they typically decrease the nightmares increase the quality of sleep decrease the reliance on  but it's generally well tolerated marijuana for p t s d among veterans and so those are the type of symptoms that you had problems with and and you you found a similar kind and so hyper and whatnot when i get around people because of having a social anxieties as were social phobia that was never diagnosed properly when i would get around p people i would get life my my supervisor god rest his soul gerry morgues he was the one who introduced me to it and he basically way to get me stones as blacks so when you because trust me i was one of those you know i don't do drugs just say no you know regular x you know the whole thing i had never done any kind of illicit drugs i mean drink until i was legally able to so so you live in new york pennsylvania yes you work to get this bill passed and yet i know i know you know that we the coalition for medical marijuana new jersey was instrumental in getting the very first bill introduced in pennsylvania in two thousand and marijuana program is really struggling i made a couple of calls and i actually called christie's office because i was interested in moving here to new jersey i wanted to move to to break new jersey near a point pleasant beach and friends and safe word to live there no i actually wanted to come down and be a part of getting things done around here i called in to christie's offices and i got the runaround i even put in have a call pennsylvania it's been five months now almost we said and the health department is working on the rules and regs to start this program so we probably think it'll probably start in maybe a year and a half that marijuana will actually be available is made to move to give for full legalization and for full decriminalization we've gotten pittsburgh philadelphia and now harrisburg is coming into play we get the three biggest cities all the different municipalities and surfer the go falls statewide first statewide decriminalization bill and also for legalization did you say we like to go full you know legalization you know medical as well as recreational i've no big secret with me i mean since i'm medically retired i have a lot of time to read in information that's out there you know you know when you find out that a lot of this was done or you know based off of racism think surprise there racism in money it's kind of i pity you know we really recognize how how serious a condition this is and how much medical marijuana can really help with this and we just hope that it will be recognized in the legislature really miss is hippie but this is a company in clarity if you can bring some commie and some clarity to help people to understand it because there's been so much negative propaganda put out against you ever many decades yeah absolutely anything that can put a good or a positive spin i mean thank god for tommy chong i mean cheech and chong they were huge and like you know the acceptability and scheduled still so you know we really i just want to say this as a veteran my my oath never expired and when i took that oath to protect other you know civilians in the states pleasure for more information about the coalition for medical marijuana in new jersey join us at our free public meeting on the second tuesday of every month at the lawrence township library in mercer county new jersey from seven to nine p every forty two seconds someone is arrested for marijuana forty two seconds somebody is arrested for every forty two seconds someone is countries arrested for marijuana shut down this is the movement on every forty two seconds someone is arrested for marijuana every forty two seconds someone is arrested for marijuana