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In his own words

Enough Is Enough

Written by Juan himself and reproduced exactly as he sent it — every line its own, nothing corrected, nothing trimmed.

Juan Armando AliceaDisabled Army veteran, founder of Veterans Project

A man seated behind a large collection of orange prescription pill bottles on a table, with his own caption across the bottom of the picture: This isn’t Drug Traffic.

I am a Disable Army Veteran.

At this time in my life, I have been dealing with several health conditions that have become worse with time.

The medications prescribed by VA have not helped and my health conditions continue to worsen.

I have been through hell and back a few times. The cocktails that VA mixes for me have created more conditions on top of the others.

I suffer from PTSD, Fibromyalgia, type 2 Diabetes, Insomnia, Hypertension and recently diagnosed with cancer in my left kidney stage one... All this caused by the combination of meds.

I have come to feel like a Lab Rat, and VA continues to experiment with new drugs. All this does is to cause more harm than cures.

We Vets feel like the Living Dead sometimes, if not at all times. Why do they (VA), keep doing this and just give us something that really works?

I have personally tried Marijuana (cannabis) on and off and have experienced relief on so many levels. It is unbelievable.

My PTSD calms down, (less flashbacks), I sleep better, We should really be taken in consideration and treated better for our own well being and for their reputation. We served our country. It is time overdue for our government to reciprocate the favor.

All the fighting going on about the legalization of marijuana just causes more stress and conduces us to look for the black market.

This is NOT the way to go. Why is the governments lying about cannabis still going on?

Enough is enough.

This is one veteran’s own experience, written under his name. It is education, not medical advice, and it is not a claim this organization makes for anyone else. Talk with your own doctor about your own care, and with your VA care team about the medicines they prescribe for you.

Veterans Project publishes general education. Nothing here is medical advice, a diagnosis, or a recommendation to start or stop any treatment, and nothing here replaces your own doctor, who knows your history and can examine you.

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