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12-14-2011, 07:23 PM
Former Canadian military Chris Hillier served his country as a firefighter with the Canadian Air Force. His military career took him to the Middle East just months after the attacks of 9-11 against the US. His service took him to some of the most active war zones witnessing the horrors of middle Asia.
The consistent stress and war conditions left Hillier with post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, and he struggled to bare through it with little success. The conventional pharmaceuticals given to him by military physicians seemingly made Hilliers PTSD worse, which landed him at rock bottom. When he returned home, Hillier loss interest in work, he became violent, very argumentative and he had problems sleeping. He then found him self without money and homeless, which inevitably lead him to losing custody of his children and illegal drug addiction.
He started using crack cocaine, and this new addiction lead him to a life of crime and bad choices such as assaulting a police officer. On a downward spiral he decided to make some changes, one change he made was he started using marijuana. It was at this point that things started to turn around for him.
Full Article... (http://www.examiner.com/cannabis-culture-in-phoenix/medical-marijuana-turns-former-soldier-s-life-around)
The consistent stress and war conditions left Hillier with post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, and he struggled to bare through it with little success. The conventional pharmaceuticals given to him by military physicians seemingly made Hilliers PTSD worse, which landed him at rock bottom. When he returned home, Hillier loss interest in work, he became violent, very argumentative and he had problems sleeping. He then found him self without money and homeless, which inevitably lead him to losing custody of his children and illegal drug addiction.
He started using crack cocaine, and this new addiction lead him to a life of crime and bad choices such as assaulting a police officer. On a downward spiral he decided to make some changes, one change he made was he started using marijuana. It was at this point that things started to turn around for him.
Full Article... (http://www.examiner.com/cannabis-culture-in-phoenix/medical-marijuana-turns-former-soldier-s-life-around)