I grew up in Arkansas, and the house where Cash was born was about a stone’s throw from where I grew up. He and his family moved to another part of the state (Dyess) during the depression. Carlos Hathcock was also from Arkansas.
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The ONLY issue I have with the whole gender ordeal is that people want to use the power of the state to enforce it. That’s a really, really bad idea. Prohibition (of both cannabis and alcohol) is the result of government gone completely awry. The very LAST thing any sane person wants to do is put the federal government in charge of it.
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Right, I’m with you there. The government does not have the authority to take away any one’s rights on perceived moral or religious grounds and should recognize those rights afforded to all.
I think we can also agree that no persons should be given rights beyond what is written in the constitution.
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Abso-fucking-lutely. One part of military life that irritated the hell out of me was how few people had even read the Constitution, let alone understand it. I feel the same way about the Bible (a lot of servicemen are deeply religious).
Regarding the Bible, there are 3 parts of it any “Christian” should read:
- The parts they agree with
- The parts they understand
- The rest of the goddamn thing
The same goes for the Constitution (you know, that document we all swore to support and defend).
Rant over.
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My VA doctor knows I’m on the Medical Registry for Cannabis and I haven’t had a problem yet I’m 90% service connected from an explosion in Al amarah back in 09.I’ve had to of pissed hot every test I took I probably burned a hole in thier cup and it’s in all your blood tests they know it’s there.Most of the time it’s not to see what your up to it’s because of medication interactions.My Drs in Buffalo were professional.I’ve heard of some being pricks elsewhere
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Hey Buddy, Damn! All I can say is Thank you for your service!
Hahaha, I know what you mean about testing positive. I think you are right about looking for possible drug interactions and not looking for a reason to mess with anyone - not as a policy anyway. I can see them finding that weed could interact with some medications and therefore deny other prescriptions. That is unless you give it up, They consider it risk to your health.
I assume if there is no conflict most VA Dr’s couldn’t care less. My team all know and there are a few risks with my health, but are minimum. The VA has yet to even call me out on my use. I also told them when I had my first initial physical and blood work.
My Civilian Doc is constantly running blood test every time I go to have blood drawn, to make sure I’m taking what she prescribed and any recreational that my have a bad interaction…
Thanks for the conformation brother!
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A key Senate panel on Thursday advanced legislation for the first time which would require Veterans Affairs officials to hold clinical trials on using medicinal cannabis for the treatment of chronic pain and PTSD
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That’s some good news brother! And about time! It also answered some of my questions. Maybe know that it will get actual study, not mention relief for many. I hope this leads pot getting thrown off the drug schedules! Thanks for sharing that @Hapi !
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The VA is going to fight it. They always have. The VA needs to be reminded that they work for us, not the other way around.
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The bill says the VA has to decide IF they have the means to conduct the surveys within 90 days of the bill’s passing. I can already see the VA saying they can’t do it, even if they could. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of people resisting legalization in any form. Hell, the VA is full of people who resist any change, good or bad.
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let’s hope that this will happen – time is the only issue - it will happen - once the SAFE act is voted in - then it’s re-schedulling marjuana from class I - basicly once the goverment lets dispenserys /investor use bank (in US) it has to re-schedule - Bet within the next few years this will happen - then they can collect taxes - money being the driving force for legalization
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i was 17 when i joined the guard right after my dad died. i had my pink id card when we did a re-mobe exercise my 3d month in. i got to the front of the line and quick thinking when they asked if i had an id card i said no. they gave me the paper and i did the math real quick in my head and suddenly i had a valid government issued fake id while a junior in high school. i actually turned 21 in the desert, sitting in a tank with no alcohol allowed. but we came from germany and had been legally drinking for years.
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I imagine the cannabis community’s “reset” button has been hit many times in many locations. Countess cannabis gene pools, unique to their respective areas, have come and gone. Being a domesticated species, its behavior is going to be a lot like our own. While it’s sad to see the old landraces gone, what’s stopping us from selectively breeding our own heirlooms? We know more now than we ever did, and cannabis is more tolerated than it has ever been since before 1938.
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If they really want to help us, they’d let us grow our own medicine/recreational substances. Nobody (except us and maybe a few other pragmatic people) want to look at the big picture. However efficacious it is or isn’t for specific symptoms, it improves our overall condition. If mental health is an issue, worrying about getting raided is only going to add to it. Constantly living in “fight or flight” mode is what CAUSED our mental illness.
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I felt that frustration on an even bigger scale. My second deployment ('04-'05) was to Baqubah, and it was the worst by far. '08-'09 my unit deployed to guess where…Baqubah. Same FOB (Forward Operating Base) even. You can imagine how that was. I felt like a one-legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond.
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I remember shooting 195s…no powder. 
The soviets, I mean sadam, never saw us coming.
Half def in my left ear…
That is what really ended the cold war and Soviet aggression; leading to the end of Communism – Desert Storm, kicked their fucking asses in less than 2 months…been waiting 30 years to say that!
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I don’t want to brag and say I got out of my chopper and got some trigger action, but I did!!! UP theirs!! 
(Haha, no one say LCD grow lights on the grow forum; in the snow…uphill! 
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FYI: Blizzards are still awesome, and Mcflurries suck! … … I stopped at an awesome flat (there was a path leading to it) Dairy Queen…for a delishish Blizzard and water!
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except the wall fell in '89, right as i got in country for a tour in germany. i think afghanistan is what led to the fall of the soviet union. not that desert storm didn’t help, maybe was the final nail in the coffin, but the soviet union was in it’s death throes by the time we went to the desert, if not already dead and just falling down, so to speak. it was pretty cool that the iraqis were scared to death of the ones of us wearing green camo, since they felt that we had been holding back the soviet union, or so we were told when we asked why we weren’t wearing the new chocolate chip uniforms they gave us when we arrived. they made us wear them on the plane home though.
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Yup! Great song!
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The movie Charlie Wilson’s War did a decent job for Holywood in showing what we did in Afghanistan.
Real trippy was the end of the movie where The Greek from the CIA tells Rep. Wilson that there will be blowback from not state-building in Afghanistan after engaging in a decade-long war there. As he says this, you can hear a plane fly overhead. Quite poignant.
I just wish the movie would’ve gotten into how Carter started Ahmed Massoud and BinLaden as agents. Ahmed would go on to lead the Taliban and then in 98/99 would see how being told to increase poppy production for Malinkrodt and Frank Lucas led his people away from god so he stopped production. Less than a few years after that decision, Ahmed would be killed a couple days before 9/11.
…and now we have fentanyl creeping into cannabis vape pens here in the States.
Ugh, the Opium Wars of the 1800s never ended.
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