Patient Testimony, Recovery

Hello. Hi. You'll let me know when I'm about 30 seconds. My name's Steve Carby. I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that I have been diagnosed with feel chromo sertoma malignant adrenal cancer. And I've been told that I have as little as six months to live. This is one of the deadliest forms of cancer known. It's extremely aggressive and invasive. And not only do you have to worry about the cancer, but each cell produces adrenaline. So most patients die just within a few years of a stroke, a heart attack, an aneurysm. The good news is that doctors have been telling me that for 30 years now. Now, my experience was that when I was diagnosed with cancer, I had experimented with cannabis, marijuana in college, but I had to quit all that because I was sick. This was serious. And we all know that cannabis hurts the immune system, causes gene damage and turns us into morons. But as a curious thing happened, a friend came by and said, I've got some pot. Would you like to try it? I said, No, no, no, I can't do that. And he said, look, if you're as sick as you say, you have nothing to lose, so try it. And I tried it and I felt good. But the next day, when I took my blood pressures, they were a little better. And I had some of that pot and I kept smoking it for a few days. And I notice my blood pressures were better. I felt better. Something was going on and I didn't want to believe it at first. But that experience taught me that there is a medical application for cannabis. And I researched it and found out that it had been part of one third of the medicines issued in the United States just 100 years ago. Well, I wrote a book and it's called Politics of Consciousness. In that book, because I wrote that book, I met a lot of important people. And to make a long story short, we got Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative on the ballot. We got more votes than Bill Clinton. We won by a landslide. And now we're going to celebrate our 10th year with this historic law, in effect, a law that's also now been copied in 11 other states. Now, I have learned from all of this that there is a much bigger picture than just my story or your story or our story. There's the bigger picture of medical freedom. It's guaranteed to us that we're supposed to have certain rights under the Constitution and