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18 pills a day as nothing to do with your service.




Stop blaming other people and other shit and man the fuck up.

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You sir are part of the problem not the solution.

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Edit: again reading through the uneducated posts here.....look, you didn't have to serve in sustained bayonet fights to suffer PTS.  There are clerk typists that never left FOB that suffer and their PTS is bonafide. Are guys milking this? Fuck yes they are but they also milk hearing loss.   SOF units fare better because #1 rotations are shorter, #2 they are more of a master of their destiny (helps...) and #3 they are cohesive in and out of the AOR. An ODA, Troop or SEAL team live and work closely together. This also helps as they are never far away from being surrounded by men with shared experiences and often stay in the same unit for close to their entire career.

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This makes me cringe.

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Do some reading.  The easiest way to explain is to use a Junkie phrase of the "warm blanket". Opioids bind with receptors that create a sense of stress free well being.  A very close friend just weaned himself of of about 10 years of Oxy's....all prescribed by Uncle Sugar.  

Here's a discussion on the topic

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It sure would be cool if they would publish the actual facts.

The cops were called because the asshole in the story was chasing and threatening his wife with a knife after she killed one of his pot plants. He did this in front of his kids.

When they arrived they found a grow operation.

Shortly after the incident cops from the same town busted him for pot again.  And again for driving without a license.  

And then he didn't show up for his first hearing, so marshalls arrested him 1000 miles away across the country.


This guy sure wants snowflake status for being an artillery operations chief.

Fuck him.

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But that's just a discussion forum where people (including those with "fibromyalgia " and other mental disorders) discuss their use of the drugs, not a medical journal.  Opiates are the wrong thing you want to use to treat PTSD. Not only would it be off label, but secondary issues with use, including narcotics induced hyperalgesic syndrome can make the PTSD worse.  They should be used for pain and pain only and I know of no physician who prescribes them for PTSD.

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The cops were called because the asshole in the story was chasing and threatening his wife with a knife after she killed one of his pot plants. He did this in front of his kids.

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Came here to say this

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True, he's fucked up.   And did fuck up.  Could be related to his 100% disability for PTSD.   I'm not an expert.    Punish him for THAT crime.

The laughable/pathetic thing is that growing six plants in your house is considered to be a far more heinous crime than chasing your wife around the neighborhood with a knife, in Oklahoma.   Sorry, but that is just mind-blowing.

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Not much difference between Oxycontin and Heroin, how do you thing so many people get on Heroin? Doctors over and improperly prescribing Oxycontin.

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Hence the "man the fuck" up part....

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It sure would be cool if they would publish the actual facts.

The cops were called because the asshole in the story was chasing and threatening his wife with a knife after she killed one of his pot plants. He did this in front of his kids.

When they arrived they found a grow operation.

Shortly after the incident cops from the same town busted him for pot again.  And again for driving without a license.  

And then he didn't show up for his first hearing, so marshalls arrested him 1000 miles away across the country.


This guy sure wants snowflake status for being an artillery operations chief.

Fuck him.

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It sure would be cool if they would publish the actual facts.

The cops were called because the asshole in the story was chasing and threatening his wife with a knife after she killed one of his pot plants. He did this in front of his kids.

When they arrived they found a grow operation.

Shortly after the incident cops from the same town busted him for pot again.  And again for driving without a license.  

And then he didn't show up for his first hearing, so marshalls arrested him 1000 miles away across the country.


This guy sure wants snowflake status for being an artillery operations chief.

Fuck him.

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Always use the least invasive least damaging most effective treatment.... that should be the VA's guiding star and modern medicine's for that matter.

Big Pharm has other plans and a large pool of politicians,doctors,and officials in it's pockets.

Lewandowski's problems began in Geronimo, Oklahoma, just outside Fort Sill, where he had been teaching field artillery classes until chronic pain from a back injury finally took him off active duty. The sudden transition from several years in Middle Eastern combat zones to a sedentary life in rural Oklahoma simultaneously triggered an onset of PTSD. As an artillery operations chief, Lewandowski had fired off countless shells in support of combat troops, and the psychic weight of the carnage he knew he'd wrought was coming back to haunt him. "In Afghanistan, what gets me more than anything was the acceptance of death and of taking life," he recently explained over pizza at a Lake Forest Chuck E. Cheese. He sat next to Whitney, who carried their baby, while their two older children played nearby. "It was completely acceptable. It almost would have been unacceptable not to celebrate a successful firing operation, but now to think about every one of those rounds and what they did, I have a big issue living with that."

Lewandowski signed himself up for psychological counseling, but talking about his problems didn't seem to help. One night, a friend sleeping on Lewandowski's couch watched his sleepwalking host clearing the house of imaginary intruders. Then, on June 1, 2014, he got into an argument with Whitney about the marijuana plants he was attempting to grow in the house. After she destroyed one of the plants, Lewandowski grabbed a knife and Whitney fled to a neighbor's house with her kids.

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"The original incident led to a couple of other incidents where I feel I was unjustly harassed," he says. Deputies arrested him for driving without a license, and later, they stopped and searched him while he was on foot, busting him for the less than a gram of cannabis in his pocket.

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Adjusting to civilian life in California wasn't easy, however. In January 2015, Lewandowski checked himself into the Veterans Administration's Long Beach mental ward. It was during his time there that Lewandowski first became familiar with the Weed for Warriors project, which provides free cannabis to veterans suffering from PTSD. After leaving the hospital, Lewandowski became an activist with the group in his free time, helping to promote its message on social media.

But on June 20, 2015, a team of armed federal marshals arrested Lewandowski near his home. Because he had failed to appear at a pretrial hearing in Oklahoma—Lewandowski says he wasn't aware of it—he'd officially become a fugitive. As he was picking up his son from a church-run daycare center, they tackled him to the ground in front of his family and a group of stunned parents. Lewandowski spent the next week shackled in a bus on his way to Oklahoma, a trip extended for a day when several inmates were injured when the driver slammed the brakes to punish a mouthy prisoner and had to be taken to the hospital for an examination

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Lewandowski made what is known as a "blind plea" in May, accepting responsibility for his actions and throwing himself on the court's mercy. "The state made it clear that I had to plead guilty [to avoid life]," he says. "But the thing is, I was using cannabis because of ailments I received in the military. I never joined the Marine Corps because I thought I would be in a situation where I could say, 'I am a veteran and shouldn't be dealing with this,' but I don't know what else to do. I don't want to go to jail for cannabis. I really don't."

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Huh.  

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/ptsd-stricken-marine-vet-faces-five-years-in-oklahoma-prison-for-growing-six-marijuana-plants-7493535

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gun ownership is a constitutional right.

getting high and drunk are not.

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Having children, wearing blue jeans, and owning swimming pools aren't mentioned in the constitution.   Would it be legal for the States or Fed government to ban those things?

Why or why not, Mr. Constitutionalist?

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It sure would be cool if they would publish the actual facts.

The cops were called because the asshole in the story was chasing and threatening his wife with a knife after she killed one of his pot plants. He did this in front of his kids.

When they arrived they found a grow operation.

Shortly after the incident cops from the same town busted him for pot again.  And again for driving without a license.  

And then he didn't show up for his first hearing, so marshalls arrested him 1000 miles away across the country.


This guy sure wants snowflake status for being an artillery operations chief.

Fuck him.

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It's just ridiculous. The same government that is literally giving him refined opioids, is threatening him with prison over smoking a plant.

I feel so much safer.

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And my favorite argument finally rears its ugly head.  Yay!!

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For those that didn't read the article his wife stated he has never laid a finger on her

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Having children, wearing blue jeans, and owning swimming pools aren't mentioned in the constitution.   Would it be legal for the States or Fed government to ban those things?

Why or why not, Mr. Constitutionalist?

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True, he's fucked up.   And did fuck up.  Could be related to his 100% disability for PTSD.   I'm not an expert.    Punish him for THAT crime.

The laughable/pathetic thing is that growing six plants in your house is considered to be a far more heinous crime than chasing your wife around the neighborhood with a knife, in Oklahoma.   Sorry, but that is just mind-blowing.

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Yes.

But I wouldn't live in a state that did so.

How is that any different than banning child marriage or any thing else which society has deemed a negative.

States' rights, how do they work?

needs more judicial oligarchy.

harvard educated lawyers must run society, its the only way.

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Is, being the key word. But at the time of the posting of the OP, he had already pled down on a deferred charge that will result in no felony on his record if he doesn't break the law in 5 years.

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Voluntarily enlists in the USMC during war, then cries about killing people while a Marine at war.  Instead of reveling in the glory of victory in battle, he whimpers like a little beta male about people he volunteered to kill to begin with.

Of course this is all an act because in reality, he's a piece of shit that wants a free ride for the rest of life.    

What a fucking disgrace.

Proving yet again what a worthless lot potheads are.

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States don't HAVE rights.   They have powers granted to them or not via their respective State constitutions.   Just like the Federal government.

You truly believe the Federal government currently has the authority to ban or regulate procreation?   If so, you aren't half the constitutionalist you claim to be.

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Maybe he should have continued treatment in the hospital instead of thinking weed would make everything ok.

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"In order to make it look like a legitimate arrest, police told Whitney that if she pressed assault charges against her husband, they would not charge her and she could keep their children. She obviously opted to stay out of prison and to not have her children kidnapped by the state."

If true, this is another point people should be raging over.

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lulz.

I never said the FEDERAL Government does.

You aren't any kind of constitutionalist as you can't even understand the concept of sovereignty.

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You responded to my 2 part question with a general affirmative.  So yes, you did.   You wish to take that back?  Great.   Point granted that the Federal government has no authority to regulate things it was never granted the authority to regulate.

As to sovereignty... where do governments derive their authority?   What, in the American tradition, is the rationale for a "legitimate" government?

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Power to the people, power to the states, and yea I believe the Constitution has the answers.  But the whole getting high equals 2A rights thing is bogus from the get go.  Apples to great danes argument.  How many other items, does the government regulate, that stoners aren't getting on their soap box about.