Keep smoking and growing and watching prohibitions fall down. What's up, y'all? Scott, real hanging out, and I'm psyched today, man. Special guest in studio, my boy Vader. What's up? Put it there, brother. Put it there. Thanks for coming to the bakery, man. Thanks for having me. Yeah, this is cool, man.

He calls me up and says, I'm in town. I got a day, man.

I said, get your ass up here, man. Let's talk. Actually, matter of fact, yeah, I can even look at you. You're actually really here, man. Most of the time the dude is hologramed in, man, so. No. We actually almost attempted to do one, but I have really forced to come out here, so I'm happy to make it.

Nice, man. Nice. So start off and if people don't know, you've got a huge YouTube following, got a great channel. But I mean, tell me your, yeah, I mean, tell me your story, man. So what, like, I don't know, I mean, I guess it's start from the beginning, man. And When did you start smoking? I started smoking after I was retired from the Marine Corps. So I ended up getting lung scarring and a bunch of bronchial scarring and ended up with bronchiectasis.

I was on a bunch of steroids, things like that. And was out the VA, had a young, cool, hip doctor who was kind of like, hey, I can't recommend this, but if you ever thought about this, because it's SoCal, and a lot of the treatments weren't working for me. Sure. And what years is this now? This is 2001. That's pretty progressive, right? Yeah, it was. It definitely had, you know, medical had been around for about five years at that point.

Right.

Since 96.

But it was just kind of like really on the fringes.

There weren't even a lot of collectives or anything open.

And so he had a recommend that.

I went and saw a doctor that did do cannabis and it was really hard to get your medical at the time. Much more like intrusive than it is now really a lot of people would be denied. And, but they ended up saying like, yeah, I think you'd be a great case for it. Because for your lungs, though. I mean, that's pretty interesting. Smoking for your lungs. I mean, that's pretty outside the box thinking. Yeah. And although like in some places where doctors will say, hey, you know, smoking, be careful of getting pneumonia or things like that. Because of my lung scarring, my avioli are all damaged, and I produce mucus constantly. Sure. When I smoke cannabis, especially flowers, it really ends up affecting my avioli, so they stop producing the mucus as much. Now, whether that's like, whether it's drying out or whatnot, I can't speak, you know, and we get no longer more details, but it just works. It ends up working for me really well, and that was a huge thing. And I ended up getting off the steroids. I had a bacterial infection that ate away at all my muscles. So I had dropped from like being more muscular at 250 pounds down to 180 pounds. And so was just like, dead down, had trouble eating, all those things.

So it helped me on multiple levels.

And to me, it saved my life.

Yeah.

A huge thing and a huge impact in my life at that time.

So you're working with the VA at this point, that kind of thing? Yeah, so I had my VA doctor stuff, but I ended up getting my medical. I went to a collective, got some stuff, but it wasn't really that stoked. My friends could actually get me some stuff anyways. So we did that, and it worked well. And after a few months, I had already gotten off the steroids. So my doctor's like, wow, well, just keep doing what you're doing. And we didn't really talk about it too much. Yeah. I mean, so did you see it work for other veterans as well? Other people as well? Like, I'm trying to figure out, like, I'm using cannabis as medicine for epilepsy. I'm using heavy CBD for medicine as epilepsy. And I'm a believer. It works so much that I'm off my other meds and I couldn't be happier.

I see things like for PTSD.

I'm thinking for people that did combat, you know.

I think it'd be a great medicine for that, man.

And I mean, people are using it for that.

I'm just curious if you saw anything like that, even some of this as anti-inflammatory, like

CBD for something like the brain injuries, the CTE-type brain injuries, you know, that anti-inflammatory

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