This is the first time publicly that this part of the story is being shared.

Truce is together for responsible use and cannabis education.

The whole point in Truce for me was to shed your labels. Put aside that

you're a Republican or a Democrat or a Libertarian. You are just a patient, a human being who suffers and cancer doesn't care what label you wear

The story that I was kind of told growing up as just drugs are bad and only bad people use drugs and criminals use drugs and

I was part of the just say no campaign I think it's funny there but he thinks it's the gateway drug that it actually

way out it was the gateway out for me it was the thing that opened up the door to

a different life I knew that I had to convey to them that inhalation is vital. Like if I have a pain

attack come on in my face, I don't want to take an oil that's going to take an hour and a

half to kick in. I want to take an oil that's going to take an hour and a half to kick in.

I want to take a hit off of my joint and it will take five seconds for me to get relief.

Now I had a problem with somebody's religious prejudice interfering with my ability to medicate.

I don't know if I believe in a god.

Yeah. I definitely believe that there is a energy that we all share.

When suffering is the human condition, let compassion be the cure.

And when there is important work that needs to be done,

I definitely believe the universe works in a way that helps those

energies come together to create that change. I was registering people who had never voted and they were in their 40s and 50s.

Like what this particular issue did was awaken people.

On a couple of occasions I actually got these elderly patients stoned for the very first time in their life.

You were in a position of strength, do not negotiate, do not negotiate with the church at all.

Marty Stevens, he is the church at all. Marty Stevens.

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