condition no patient should suffer needlessly without it and no patient should ever go to jail for following the advice of a doctor joining us and learn more about the exciting science of medical marijuana welcome to c n n and jake peavy i'm can waltz executive director of the coalition easily identifiable but you can just tell given you know like my experience with having been deployed in now returned home of a living treat new jersey and so i see a lot who suffer who had their you know doors kicked in have had relatives shot and killed in front of them or just have had it happen that's those are all forms of direct in direct way of performing places p t s d on a person so when you look at it from a psychological aspect you know it's having lived under this before having seen this in baghdad now that i'm home because i just moved back to trend within the last couple of years and so i'm trying to get caught up because i've been gone for over twenty one so my frame of reference of trend as you said earlier is my frame of reference is from twenty some years ago what i come back to now this trend looks like a place i've been baghdad so i've seen this before  ago and this is all based on me doing my own research and analysis and trying to figure out what happened while i was gone because mind you i was on the other side of the planet you know it's not like i was in jail i was the my career my business and so with felipe for a while then bring us back over here we were we were in we were literally in a war zone and so the call from one war zone abroad and you come home and find out that your city has literally turned into a war zone and you look at the pathology or how it got there because he at this point based on the numbers you know there are fifty eight thousand people in the city of trend over the age of eighteen documented that is that is and only nine thousand voted last election cycle so that to me that p t s d has fed that sense that city y sense of apathy for a long time because when you keep asking yourself how is it we're consistently hiring unqualified people to hold high level jobs when you look at it that's where you go that so we are in vain this is the main this is the day i choose to give this period of time but the thing is is that there's something there's a there's a way that we can work this out again having seen it done in baghdad and that is voting because i was there getting more people involved in the political process and yes and we saw so so yes i think it's the most hopeful way certainly the most nonviolent way and the most promising way to overcome exploded in literally from nine thousand inmates to twenty seven thousand inmates tripled in those twenty two years and eighty six percent of the people in the prison system in one in two thousand and six were black and this now you know what well those are good questions but those are also at this point and understand what i mean by this those are still those are now become old questions because the actual answer to your question is today so when you say what the impact today so if you look at where we are as a people today that's the answer to your question so again today is they mean we've led it into being see when you look at one years of history that i got to get caught up that i'm reading within the last two also find out you get the lay of the lane as far as my hometown is so it's all fast for me and to me when you look at it it's ok the political process folks here you know you you broke in your broker for murders and you've you know so that means that with those numbers of the last election cycle there hasn't been was a dead so i think it was game related so there was trying to get a father but it did not know that the father had two little girls inside her so they too emotive cut inside the house kind of to live with the father which was a very big deal everything that you're saying but you haven't been here for twenty years like you said and they said that you didn't break you can compare it to was going on here in america one of the foremost we are known to do a political issue political for years and sometimes so with that being said since that was their first election political stuff that's what is working for them i want to take nothing away from you but you understand this eerie white train is not moving forward here twenty years can only do one thing which is research correct if i want to call them i just told you fifty eight thousand people are that there are fifty eight thousand people in the city attorney that are over the age of eighteen voting age that's what i that's that's a fact there's also a fact that in two thousand and fourteen nine thousand people voted only nine nine out of fifty eight thousand so as far as i'm concerned been here twenty one years or not when you look at that number and that's telling you that there has not been a death in this city that has galvanized the people to reengage in the political process you could mean whatever situation you want the number of remit numbers don't lie so it's not about who's right and who's wrong i saw about that but no we hear me out brother this about facts and this and that when you've got that kind of number you can get caught up in the only way that you can only look at it from a point that says that people are dying and you're still not voting because that is the way to fix it you know what i said also is like an american new jersey politics has been going on here for a while but then again the starvation in iraq that was the first time politics happened so that's why it's probably as working for them for them you know when you have fire bombings and children being killed in trenton and it's a result of you know just a general violence in the drug wars you know it's all p t s d more this is more this is more despair happening this is not to get people put reengage in the political process whether it's for the city attrition or just environment period and how many times has this city been flooded and blizzard out and  lot things that i have seen before from over there you know agree whole lot and i have and the fact that i have been here for over twenty one years is actually an asset  actually you're looking at it i'm looking at a train with fresh eyes and what these fresh eyes are seen as something that they seen before over there not to a t but all lot of similarities especially when you're talking well you got eighty four thousand eighty four documented thousand people in a seven square mile range were lumped in the gather like that and that's what you see here on a day to day look no regular here this is this is deep and it's been going on for longer we have a black president of the united states and we would think that i would think i mean i thought i was an obama supporter i'm a green party member but i did support president  were with george bush when he left history will judge me later on never has it rings so true for president barack obama same sentiment he will get his just do you know well for a lot of you that you're not alone in that way of thinking but you know you're not alone in in the admiration that he and his family have shown particularly when you've got so many you know like you look at how graceful they've carried themselves and then their concern now they're considered counterculture because you've got the car dashing and all that the whole thing the images that are being fed it for them to remain as humble and as gracious as they had been they will be missed they were they were such a sight to see particularly when they did go overseas and represent i felt like they represented you know the in the united states all of us not just and i was just even more a little more because they were african american and so they were me to this is look at them that's what we really look like not that's you know not that's not the only way but to my way of thinking the relations of race relations did not improve and frank lucas his friend actually yes and it was pursued for for no good reason for selfish political reasons and i believe that in the end it continues to this day all the good reasons and for reasons that are counterproductive to  integrating more of the minorities and the poor into the comerica in society well you operative word counterproductive because yes kill productive for society as a whole having this happen and having his plan go into effect because ultimately what it does is considerably lower my state property taxes insurance they range we so but at the that number so low because there was against the law for them to have it they had to have a vote in the vote was they had to ask the people can they keep the money or do they have to give the back and the people vote it and they because you know the alcohol industry threatened by legal marijuana because marijuana is a safer alternative limiting wants to relax with but a joint anything instead of a cocktail god bless america god bless so for more information about the coalition for medical marijuana new jersey join us at our free public meetings on the second tuesday of every month at the lawrence township library in mercer county new jersey from seven to nine p