From Ambien Nightmares To Cannabis Clarity My Wildest Story

Cannabinoids, that's kind of on you. You've got to find a community that understands about cannabinoids. I'm not just talking about getting high. I'm talking about CBD, CBG, CBN, and THC. I'm talking about all of it. For me, when I started using cannabis to sleep, it changed a lot of things for me because I was off the other drugs. Cannabis is in your system. It's out of your system as far as therapeutically what it's affecting. It's not like taking an Ambien and you're just like crazy for a day even after you wake up from it. and you don't know when it's working when it's not working. And I'll tell you an ambient story. This is my greatest ambient story. I woke up one morning with a gallon of ice cream in the bed, a spoon, ice cream's gone, and 12 pairs of sunglasses. Because evidently they had a sale at 7-Eleven that night. I looked at my receipt and I was like, oh my god, I was at 7-Eleven last night buying sunglasses and eating ice cream. So, you know, I've never done that on cannabis, you know. The ice cream maybe, but not the glasses. So, to me it's about safety and what's practical. Okay, once I started getting good sleep, and a lot of things changed, because one, I got off of more medications, and two, just good sleep in itself was helping the connectivity of any brain issues and just made life a lot, I mean, Let's face it, insomnia, I mean, you're a prick. You got insomnia, you're a prick. Okay, and I was 24-7 prick. So once I got good sleep, that was great. And then once I got CBD for daytime, that's non-psychotropic, CBD got me off the opiates. Now when I say opiates, I'm not just talking about, oh yeah, I took opiates. I'm talking like 90 milligrams of morphine, 70 milligrams of Oxycontin every day. Every day, okay? And when you're at that kind of high level, it stops working. You build up your tolerance, so on and so on. So you always have to go into a detox phase to get yourself cleaned out so you can start again. And I always tried to not do it. But anybody can take the worst pain in the world. It's just a matter of how long, because everyone has a breaking point. And sometimes there's people around you going, you're such an asshole. I wish you'd do something. Boom. I don't want to be a problem. So that's kind of how that was reinforced. But when I found CBD and I figured out how to dose CBD and use CBD, then that whole thing changed. That got me off the painkillers that I'd been on forever. And by the time the heart condition happened, one of the contributing factors to the heart condition is I had a stage three liver disease. I mean, excuse me, kidney disease. And so another thing that just affected the heart. And the kidneys were blown out from opiates, just blown out. And all that stuff was... almost killed me. So stem cells, the best stem cells are out of the country. They're called expanded stem cells. They can't do it in the United States. And I'm more than willing to talk to anybody about that stuff, you know, outside about stem cells. That's my story. It truly did save my life. Who's next? Hey, would you talk a little bit about, you like to say the street level leadership. Yeah. Yeah, and, you know, I've been following your post for a long time, and it gets, gritty and a little crass sometimes, but it's very inspirational and you move a lot of people from point A to point B. You want to talk a little bit about that? Yeah, and that is the goal. We want to get people from point A to point B. When I talk about the street leadership, I'm talking about emergent leaders. Emergent leaders that are in their local communities, making contact with people, and actually taking, like, it would be a travesty to come to this event and not take away the message that we're talking about. That would be a travesty. And when I say not take away, that means if you don't give it away to somebody else, because you never know who you're talking about. The guy who saved me at Walter Reed Army Medical Center that helped me get out of there, gave me a job when I honestly couldn't even do a job and let me work there for two years, that guy had no idea that there would be something called the Spartan Pledge that came from me staying alive.