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Writing · In the press

Published work, in his own name

Juan Armando Alicea writes and records about veterans, pain and medicinal cannabis. The pages below ran in Sens Culture, a lifestyle magazine published in Puerto Rico, and they are reproduced here exactly as they were published.

Juan AliceaVeteran and founder, Veterans Project

Published in Sens Culture

As they ran

In Spanish, unchanged. Tap a page to open it larger — the print reads easiest zoomed in.

The published magazine page headed Un llamado a la acción por la reforma federal del cannabis, with three columns of Spanish text, a vertical VETERANOS label and a circular veterans chapter emblem.

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Un llamado a la acción por la reforma federal del cannabis

A call to action on federal cannabis reform — the two bills before Congress, and what they would change for veterans.

Published in Sens Culture · written by Juan Alicea

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The published magazine page headed Valentía de los veteranos: el triunfo de Romana Monroe Harding con el cannabis medicinal, with a photograph of a smiling woman and three columns of Spanish text.

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Valentía de los veteranos: el triunfo de Romana Monroe Harding con el cannabis medicinal

A feature on another veteran and her path to medicinal cannabis, written for the magazine.

Published in Sens Culture · written by Juan Alicea

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A broadcast microphone on a boom arm in front of a lit ON AIR sign and acoustic foam, with the words Veterans project saving 22 across the picture.

Behind the microphone

The message does not only go out in print

He records and broadcasts as well — the same plain talk, for people who will listen long before they will read. It is the same work in another room.

The cover of Sens Culture: an illustration of a combat helmet resting on a pair of combat boots against a dark brick wall, with a green leaf growing from behind the helmet.

The issue he appeared in

The cover also sits with his story on the Our Mission page.

Read Sens Culture at sensculture.com

These pages are reproduced as published by Sens Culture. Their content is the magazine’s and the author’s, not medical advice. 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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