What are federally supplied medical marijuana patients like?
A federal cannabis patient is an individual in this country that is a grandmother, 73 years old, that uses medical cannabis for her eyes, for glaucoma. A federal cannabis patient is a person who is 50 years old with MS and luckily would still be able to see and be able to move, but she barely leaves her house. But she's a taxpayer also. A federal cannabis patient is a person who is a hard worker in Iowa, that all his life he's been tough, and he's got a disease that he's got like brittle bones that break very easily and organs, the muscles clamp down organs he's had half of this removed, half of his stomach, half of this. That's a federal cannabis patient. A federal cannabis patient is a woman, 65 years old, who has glaucoma. She sings, she's an advocate. She used to be a bank teller, but the glaucoma hit her and she couldn't work anymore. A federal cannabis patient is me: a person that works very hard every day. Get's up in the morning, the ankle's killing me. But I get up, I go to work, I do my job. It gets my thoughts off of that. I pay a lot of taxes--I'm a very successful stock broker,ok, so I pay a lot in taxes, which I'm glad to do. And I do all that because I have the right medicine. If I didn't have medical cannabis, I wouldn't be working. I'd probably be homebound, I'd probably would be on disability and a drain on the society versus a productive member. A cannabis patient is a person, myself, who teaches other people disabled how to sail boats in Miami through an organization called "Shake a Leg". So you see, I'm the average person just like everybody else. All I'm trying to do is feel as well as possible, and medical cannabis is that medicine for me.
