Ep 698 – Christine Stenquist and the Untold Story of Medical Marijuana Legalization in Utah, Part 1

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Christine Stenquist’s world turned upside down when her doctors discovered that brain tumor back in 1996. A botched surgery and Near Death Experience was followed by 16 years of bed-ridden chronic pain. Then she discovered the medical benefits of Cannabis. Then she organized a group called TRUCE. Then she became a major catalyst in legalizing medical marijuana in Utah. Her story is truly inspiring. This is part 1 of 3.

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0:00.0	Glenn, you're the first person I've really got to share so much of this.
0:04.0	Sitting there that night couldn't pull myself away from just the desire to not exist anymore. And so that peeing on my phone was so much more than just my friend
0:19.0	reaching out to me. It was sort of the universe saying,
0:22.6	whoa, whoa, hold on.
0:25.1	We've got more to do still.
0:26.5	We've got more to do still.
0:30.1	An officer walks over to me and starts to read me my rights.
0:33.6	And I'm terrified. I'm like, wait, what?
0:36.4	And I just had to tell them like, so no, you can't grind at our church.
0:43.8	Like you have to dance like Book of Mormon length apart
0:47.0	and all that stuff.
0:49.8	He had that look in his face and he sat down and he says well it's a tumor it's a tumor and then there was
0:57.1	other things that really grated on my nerves I never believed in this one true church kind of thing.
1:04.0	Were you were you about to say one true church shit?
1:08.0	Yeah, kind of yeah.
1:11.0	You're allowed.
1:12.0	You're allowed. I'm allowed.
1:13.0	I'm allowed. I swear.
1:14.0	Yay!
1:17.0	It was strange.
1:18.0	It was a strange memory because I wasn't quite in my body. I was I was hovering. I'm showing all my vulnerability because I think it's important. I'm showing all my vulnerability because I think it's important.
1:34.0	Not really shared this story before.
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