Why do you think it's important for you to speak out about medical marijuana?
It's important for many reasons that I speak out. For personal, what I have sucks. I don't like it, I hate it. I don't need it, but I have it. So, I want to make something good come out of something bad, and if I can help others, it makes me feel better, because I'm lucky to be alive. I mean, God has made it to where I can be intelligent enough to discover Marijuana, intelligent enough to take on the federal government and win. So, I'm in a unique position in this country, I am the only person that can legally stand up and say, "I use cannabis on a daily basis." I'm the only person in this country who has a job, and I have a job the federal government says I shouldn't be able to do, because I use cannabis. I shouldn't be able to think, I should be lethargic. I'm doing a very high stress job, that normal people can't do, that are healthy. Well, I've got other problems besides worrying about the market going up or going down. I've got a severe bone disorder, but because of the medicine I'm in great shape. So, I've got to stand up and say that. Doctors can't stand up and say it, because if they do DEA comes down on them and go, "Let me see every prescription you've written for the last three years." A patient that is legal in the state, they can stand up and say a certain amount, but DEA can still come in and bust them. Feds can still come in and bust you. So, and someone in a legal state can't really stand up because they'd be arrested, saying that they use it. So, the government has made it very difficult to try to get these laws changed, and to try to make people understand that it's not this theory they make it out to be. So, I'm the only person in this country, over 300 million people that can do this. So, what am I going to do, not do it? If it wasn't for Robert Randall, the first patient, I wouldn't have known about it. He spoke publicly about it, I learned about it, I have to do the same thing, Bob is dead. There're only five of us left in the country today, which get it. So, I can't sit back and not do anything, I couldn't live with myself.
