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For 20 years, I depended on prescribed opiates just to function through chronic pain. Doctors handed them out freely\u2014until they couldn\u2019t explain my condition. Then suddenly, I wasn\u2019t a patient anymore\u2026I was labeled a \u201cdrug seeker.\u201d Testing stopped. Support disappeared. I was pushed onto methadone and left to figure it out on my own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Eventually, I did what they wouldn\u2019t\u2014I kept searching. I discovered a rare genetic nerve disorder in my family and finally got confirmation: I had it too. No cure. No real treatment. Just a lifetime of managing pain.<\/div>\n
But I refused to stay trapped.<\/div>\n
If I didn\u2019t take those medications, I got violently sick. I couldn\u2019t function. My life revolved around avoiding withdrawal\u2014not living. So I made a choice to find another way.<\/div>\n
I turned to cannabis and natural herbs (like kr @ +0m leaf)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Today, I am 10 years free from opiate dependence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For two decades, I legally carried enough prescription opiates to kill multiple people. Now, I use a plant that has never caused a fatal overdose\u2014and in Tennessee, that makes me a criminal.<\/div>\n
That\u2019s not just backwards. It\u2019s dangerous.<\/div>\n
It\u2019s time to change this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For 20 years, I depended on prescribed opiates just to function through chronic pain. Doctors handed them out freely\u2014until they couldn\u2019t explain my condition. Then suddenly, I wasn\u2019t a patient anymore\u2026I was labeled a \u201cdrug seeker.\u201d Testing stopped. Support disappeared. I was pushed onto methadone and left to figure it out on my own. Eventually, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987652240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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For 20 years, I depended on prescribed opiates just to function through chronic pain. Doctors handed them out freely\u2014until they couldn\u2019t explain my condition. Then suddenly, I wasn\u2019t a patient anymore\u2026I was labeled a \u201cdrug seeker.\u201d Testing stopped. Support disappeared. I was pushed onto methadone and left to figure it out on my own.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Eventually, I did what they wouldn\u2019t\u2014I kept searching. I discovered a rare genetic nerve disorder in my family and finally got confirmation: I had it too. No cure. No real treatment. Just a lifetime of managing pain.<\/div>\r\n
But I refused to stay trapped.<\/div>\r\n
If I didn\u2019t take those medications, I got violently sick. I couldn\u2019t function. My life revolved around avoiding withdrawal\u2014not living. So I made a choice to find another way.<\/div>\r\n
I turned to cannabis and natural herbs (like kr @ +0m leaf)<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Today, I am 10 years free from opiate dependence.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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For two decades, I legally carried enough prescription opiates to kill multiple people. Now, I use a plant that has never caused a fatal overdose\u2014and in Tennessee, that makes me a criminal.<\/div>\r\n
That\u2019s not just backwards. It\u2019s dangerous.<\/div>\r\n
It\u2019s time to change this.<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,60,95,84,28,7,96,74,85,77,6,93,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987652239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-steps","category-editors-choice","category-fighting-back","category-fraud","category-great-awakening","category-hidden-secrets","category-mad-as-hell-and-not-taking-it-anymore","category-mind-control","category-omg","category-rescue-the-republic","category-revelations","category-survival","category-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987652239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987652239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987652239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987652242,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987652239\/revisions\/987652242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987652240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987652239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987652239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987652239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}