American Refugees Right Here At Home?

Cannabis saved my life, we can talk about that event another time. Lets start this article off by briefly discussing the charity I founded called GuerillaHealer, in Aug. of 2014 as a means to help fund my efforts helping patients with life threatening ailments receive natural care. Once the 501(c)3 was established, the activities of the charity focused heavily on connecting patients with healers in various fields. The most popular reason we are contacted is by people who have a need to learn from someone experienced how to apply cannabinoid therapy to life threatening ailments.

What I have learned since predominantly shifting focus to cannabinoid therapy since 2013 is that everyone is different. For instance, two twins with the same issue may require different treatments. However, we all require the same treatment!
What I mean is, no matter who we are or where we are from, when we are in pain we want to get out of it immediately. When we have an emergency, we are served with the ability to have emergency relief. This notion is generally shared throughout our world. It occurs to me, and please feel free to evolve or dispute, that and I state,

I Imagine only someone who is in fear of losing their control over others would ever attempt to stand in the way of emergency relief for any life form.

In this fashion, we all require the same treatment; relief from an emergency

What is the definition of emergency?
Merriam-Webster says An unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action.

With this being understood, it is absolutely key that we are offered SAFE ACCESS to our treatment of choice, let alone the fact that America is supposed to be a free country! We are certainly not free when children are taken from parents because chemotherapy and/or radiation, which are generally dangerous treatments that have well documented life threatening side effects, are denied. This is actually happening in America today. I am in touch with a parent right now in the childrens group I moderate where a woman had CPS show up to her house because she has not signed on to chemotherapy for her child. She does not want to give her child chemo, she wants to seek treatment elsewhere in a different state, though her state is currently threatening her with negligence and endangering child welfare while barring her from leaving the state.

Medical Refugees.

We all hear and see the stories about the refugees seeking asylum from other countries here in America, what about the medical refugees who are arrested and sentenced to jail like Shona Bonda who has documented Crohns disease, the only substance that hasnt led her to near death is cannabis, she was arrested for cannabis possession, its known that she needs cannabis to survive, they offer her jail time where she will obviously not be able to use the material she was arrested for, essentially sentencing her to death. Not to mention the fact that Shona also lost custody of her son. Another case where children are being kidnapped from parents, yet we are talking about Americans in America.

Chris Christie, the gov from NJ literally turned parents down when they went to his doorstep looking for compassion. These werent just any parents, these were parents of epileptic children who have proved that cannabis is the only substance that helps them.

These cases are not few and far between.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s comment in his famous letter from Birmingham Jail: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
(check out this article on civil disobedience by stanford encyclopedia of philosophy - below)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

Ive witnessed first hand a hospital, here in colorado no less, offer death to a family because they could not help their daughter. I was called in to help with cannabinoid therapy, the hospital of course could not condone that use, and their best offering was death. Even after I told them why I was asked to be there, they still made attempts to put the 4 year old child on a morphine regimen strategized to kill her. Of course, I did everything I could to ensure that didnt happen. The parents chose to work with me rather then kill their baby, the cannabis worked, she got out of a coma, and for 6 months got better and better. Unfortunately, her family was sold by the mayo clinic to give her more rounds of chemo (which were only hurting her for years) and ended up taking the life of this beautiful little girl who was not served well to die. She was in fact, in my opinion, DE-SERVED. Ever the more, cannabis helped her, and the fact is, the family came to Colorado for SAFE ACCESS. This is what they needed, it was up to them to make their choices and I dont judge them one bit.

When we are barred from choosing the help we desire, I have a hard time not calling that torture.

Raising awareness is key - in fact acknowledgment is the first step to recovery