How cannabis helped this military veteran quit 2 deadly addictions

Calling all entreprenurial veterans around the globe. Let’s link up and show the world what we are capable of by continuing ourservice after we depart the ranks.

My grandfather Stanley died during a nap due to alcholosim. While laying in his bed at home on the northside of Oklahoma City. My grandmother came in to wake him up to which he never did. My father David, his son was also a recovering alcoholic for 15 years prior to relapsing and dying on the floor of his apartment in Kennewick, WA in 2018.

When I retired from the Navy in 2016 I had drank alcohol for 23 years straight. One night with neighbors down the street a blunt was getting passed around in the midst of all the alcohol gushing.

That night I experienced a state of calm and relaxation like never before. Over the next 48 hours I felt the best rested version of me had just broken out of his shell.

Consuming opiods the VA prescribed and combining them with alcohol was a recipe 4 disaster eventually. Now, instead of stopping at Fred Meyer each day to pick up a bottle of wine, or scotch I visit bi-weekly at Northwest Cannabis Connection in Puyallup WA as a certified medical cannabis user with the Department of Health. Thanks to my buddy Dan at the time who passed the blunt that night.

I’m just one of many veterans who struggled with alcohol addiction. I feel very fortunate that experimenting with cannabis that night opened a whole new dimension of my life up…