Written by She Beat Her Opiate Addiction 6 Years Ago, Now Cannabis Is Her Medicine For Pain:
When I decided to go public about my own addiction or physical dependence on Oxycodone that was prescribed for Cancer pain (Bone Metastasis), I never thought the outcome would be a pouring of stories through comments alone. Bette Braden is a very well-known California Cannabis Activist from southern California that now lives in the state capital, Sacramento. She was recently worked on the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative in 2016 which never made it to the ballot. Many medicinal patients, including myself and Bette, were very much opposed to Proposition 64 legalization for recreational purposes. “We never needed a law to smoke a joint before, all this will do is allow big corporate cannabis in to take over,” Jim Rasmussen of Cannabis Freedom Project said to me earlier today, “They acted like it was a great idea to vote for this when in reality it created all these bans and rules that made us patients no longer able to grow for our own medicine.” He’s not alone in that.
Long-time legend Dennis Peron was very outspoken about the Proposition. His Facebook came alive as he fights terminal illness. The ‘Godfather of Cannabis’ known for penning the famed Proposition 215 with multiple other co-authors that were the first known of modern Medicinal Cannabis Legalization in the world, spoke out against recreational cannabis. “I’m just an old gay hippie that wanted to legalize pot” Dennis once told me, “I’m not up for all these new laws that bring in regulation, they drive out the old-timers growing medicine”.
Okay, now let’s get to what Bette Braden had to say. Instead of an interview, she agreed to have a social media comment be allowed for use in this blog. It’s so awesome to read other patients’ stories as I move along the path in my own journey to beat the opiate epidemic within Here was what she had to say about her own Journey that’s quite intense.
It’s rather disturbing to look at the history of what went down in our U.S. Pharmacopeia over the years. In 1906 Heroin itself overtook Cannabis, then 30 years later it was banned and Prohibition was also created.
Suddenly a crisis of people that were on Heroin as an actual tincture medicine was in the streets shooting up drugs that were sent from the early era of organized crime into mostly big cities. It spread quickly and the work ‘Junkie’ was first used as the word for Heroin back then after the ban was “Junk”.
Due to both drugs being banned so close together and the Reefer Madness Campaign, it’s thought that the 1970 Controlled Substances Act or CSA was adversely affected by the correlation between the two. What bothers me the most is that Big Pharma tried once, during the ‘just say no’ Reagan administration and failed. But, in the late ’90s under President Clinton, it happened and they actually allowed a medication into the Pharmecopia once again with Oxycodone and Oxycontin, an Rx medication that was known to be Heroin-based. Within 12 months of the drug hitting pharmacies over 1,000 overdose deaths due to shooting up the pills were reported.
This isn’t new for the U.S. Government who has also moved Methamphetamines quietly into schedule 2 long ago in order to allow the ‘Methamphetamine Salts’ known as Adderall on the market. Now sold on the streets and substituted for what it really is – Meth.
Knowing all of this to be 100% true as well as the fact that U.S. Patent #6630507 is for Cannabis as Medicine and owned by our Government is all more than enough to call ‘BS’ on Schedule One or say ‘This is fraud against the people – because it is. But, what do we do about it? Continue the fight and continue sharing our success stories. Bette Braden is a walking-talking Cannabis Success. Her original withdraw didn’t include Cannabis, but her long-term pain management is all about the plant. That means she stays off the pills and has nature instead. Nobody… not anyone ever… should go to jail over a plant.
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