Marine Combat Vet Kicked Out of Senate Meeting For Speaking Too Much Truth
Marine Combat Vet Kicked Out of Senate Meeting For Speaking Too Much Truth
By Andrew Emett
Lansing, MI — After returning from Iraq, Dakota Serna found himself battling PTSD and taking prescription pills for roughly three years after leaving the service. Due to a botched hernia operation, doctors began prescribing painkillers along with his antidepressants, leading to ulcers in his stomach and intestines.
With the prescription pills taking their toll on his body and mind, Serna abandoned the FDA-approved medications after a friend shared a joint with him. No longer suffering from incessant nightmares and insomnia, Serna found that his anxiety had decreased, and his patience had returned. Instead of making him more hostile, cannabis offered Serna a peace of mind that the nauseating combination of pills never gave him.
During a Senate Committee meeting last week in Lansing, Michigan, Serna spoke before the members to discuss HB 4209 and how it affects medical marijuana patients. According to Michigan state law, patients suffering from a number of illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, HIV, seizures, and PTSD, qualify for medical marijuana. Before his microphone was suddenly cut off, Serna had been attempting to explain how HB 4209 places a greater tax burden on people who barely survive on fixed incomes.
"I am a veteran," Serna addressed the panel. "A Marine. Served my country. Fought in Iraq. And I've received, and battle with PTSD to this very day. Now, I didn't just get my post-traumatic stress from rolling down the street and seeing car bombs or having mortars falling out of the sky and hurt a few people. No. I kicked in doors, and I killed people from distances less than we are from each other."
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to put them on a parade sled, but when they come to ask for help---------------------------they basically (I can't say it ) all over on them.
In what is really classic is when you see the legionaries with there combat post hats unit on, standing behind these hypocrites and endorsing these right wing hypocrites-----------------is it me or are they just ignorant
Honk-----------------------for a political revolution it is about the U.S Supreme Court and it is getting a progressive Congress
Bernie 2016
