Hello everyone, I hope you are all staying safe and coping with these strange times. I'd like to share with you the story of retired drug cop Max and his Army veteran son David, in the hopes that you will lend your name to their campaign as you have mine.
Click here to read Max's petition, calling for cannabis legalisation.
Max spent years at the coalface on the war on drugs, as a policeman. He's the last person you might expect to come out in support of legalising cannabis, but after his son David came home from Afghanistan with life-threatening PTSD, everything changed.
David wasn't coping well with his PTSD, and the psychiatric drugs he was put on weren't helping. It was in an act of parental desperation that Max turned to cannabis. The results have helped pull David out of the darkness, and on the road to recovery.
Click here to sign Max's petition.
Now, Max is calling for home-grown cannabis to be made legal. As you know, United in Compassion doesn't have a position on broader cannabis legalisation. Our focus is medicinal cannabis. But after hearing Max and David's story, it is impossible to not be moved.
I know how it feels to want to whatever you can to ease the pain of your child. For Max, that has extended to turning to the black market to help keep his son from going over the edge.
Please, consider signing Max's petition to stand with Aussie veterans living with PTSD.
Thank you,
Lucy Haslam