April 05, 2014 at 6:51 PM
updated April 05, 2014 at 10:40 PM
...Speakers like Iraq War veteran Dakota Serna, of Lansing, (click here) also took to the steps of the Hatcher Graduate Library to talk about the benefits of cannabis.
Serna joined the Marines straight out of high school in 2003 and in a year was on the front line of a military operation in the Al Abar region of Iraq. He was injured twice by friendly fire, but those wounds weren’t as painful as the mental scars he brought home with him.
“I definitely saw a lot of gruesome things and watched a lot of good friends die,” said the veteran who now sports a bushy beard and bandana. “Reliving that every night just got too much for me. I had to find something.”
The antipsychotics and antidepressants they gave him at the veterans hospital for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder made him sick and suicidal.
“It got to a point where I needed to try something else,” he said.
Around 2009, a friend handed him a joint....
