ground swell among veterans from iraq and afghanistan who are saying basically, i don t want opiates. i don t want to poison myself. i don t want bar witchwits. let me smoke a little weed please, smoke a little weed. this is natural, oregonic, as they would say, substance. isn t that maybe a better alternative from their perspective? the question they re asking, than the stuff you re telling me i ought to take. i wondfer there s incredulity about it that people say, if you were taking, you know prozac, then we would believe it s making you better but you re trying to get high. it doesn t make you better. without a doubt, there s still a gigantic stigma. this was made a schedule i drug years ago. probably never should have been made a schedule i drug. let me say as a person who doesn t use marijuana, i m not sitting here advocating. i m just sitting here watching this landscape.