32 years old. and i m saying as a responsible adult, this works for me much better than prozac or antidepressants. let s address the addiction issue. there are many people that feel cannabis is a gateway drug. i completely disagree. i feel that if someone is going to be an addict, they most likely started with tobacco or beer, and, of course, pot was probably the third one that they tried and if a person is going to be addicted to anything, and they have an addictive personality, they re going to be addicted to almost anything. so i completely disagree with the gentleman, and i ve seen a number of cases, quite frankly, where people have had other addictions and they ve never had an issue with pot whatsoever. so i m talking about the medicinal use of cannabis as a grown woman, as a 53-year-old, in the privacy of my home and i m also speaking about people who use cannabis responsibly. i am not referring to people who
me on antidepressants and anxiety pills and sleeping pills actually suggested it to me. i was in a session with him. it was 1996. prop 215 had just passed. and he and i developed a rapport where he felt comfortable telling me that he used cannabis, himself. he found it to be an excellent mood stabilizer, so i tried it and i was able to get rid of all the pharmaceuticals i was using and cannabis worked much better for me. then ten years later, or in 2006, i was diagnosed with cancer, and it saved my life. so in my particular case, it gave my life back to me for my children so that i could be there for them and now my daughter is my executive vice president and we re building the company together. amy, is she right? did it transform her as a mother? did it change her as a person? absolutely. i m so proud of my mom. she s the modern day polly ann sabin, the woman who overturned alcohol prohibition and now going to overturn marijuana
finish real quick. doctor, why don t you think pot should be legalized? yeah. let s get something straight. all right? these people, their specialty is pr. it is not addiction. i ve been involved in addiction field for almost 25, 30 years based on also me being an addict. okay? i deal with this day in and day out. how dare they tell me what i m saying is not true when i treat individuals who have panic attacks, anxiety attacks, who cannot sleep who have major impulse control issues because they ve been smoking pot every day for five years, three years, ten years. lack of motivation. these are facts. so please, don t tell me that i m wrong when i deal with this issue on a daily basis. that is irresponsible. ladies, what are your thoughts? as a mother, here s what i find very interesting. first of all, i m not advocating for a 14-year-old to go out and use cannabis as a mood stabilizer. i was 36 years old. my daughter is a grown woman at
getting high on life anymore? that s the issue. i m high on life. i m high on life right now. well so am i. i m loving it. there s something very important here you guys are not addressing. number one, cannabis is far safer than alcohol, tobacco or pharmaceuticals. it was legal in our pharmacies until 1937. and not only that, alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals, people are dying at the rate women, specifically are dying at a rate of one woman every nine minutes from overdoses from alcohol, tobacco and form su pharmaceuticals. you know how many overdoses there have been from marijuana? zero in the hit story of this plant. it s a superior mood stabilizer and it works, and the revenue and the tax regulation of this plant can heal our economy. period. cheryl, do you see any benefit to the place where i worked? harborside health center? what s a benefit to the place like that? first of all, i love stevie d. i got off the phone with andrew before i got on here. i have to s