Both Ladd and Barbara live in Iowa. Both have been ill for years. Decades ago Ladd found out that the US government was giving medical cannabis to certain patients for their illnesses through the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program. He has multiple sclerosis (MS) and he found through personal experimentation that his symptoms improved and the disease was put in a remission-like state when he used cannabis regularly.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disorder that results from patches of destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve axons in the brain and spinal cord.

Bob is not his real name. It's a true story but, as always when writing about most US citizens' use of cannabis as a medicine, I protect the ill by changing things a bit.

Bob was one of the hundreds of thousands of young men and women the US sent to war. Twice.

When he came back to the US the second time he was wounded in body and psyche. Bob served his country as a Marine. We met two years ago. He is 40 plus years younger than I and he is my friend.

His wife is beautiful and lovely. His father I like a whole lot. His mom is neat. He bought his first house after his honorable discharge from the Marines for medical reasons. Bob is 100% disabled from his physical problems and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS).

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came…
the incident.

“They told me it took 8 paramedics to hold me down. I was throwing them around like they were rag dolls.”

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