JOHN ENTWISTLE: Anybody who's dealt with terminal illness has dealt with a lot of
people dying in their immediate surroundings, like the ones they love,
their family, their extended family, children in some cases, whatever the
loss is, marijuana helps heal the depression.
You've got the loss, the void, when you've got the people that you would have gone to eat with, to play games with, to borrow a few bucks from, to go team up and accomplish
an objective with, because those are the guys and the girls who you like
to work with, and all of a sudden they're just not there and they just died
right in the middle of the game. If you're a human being, you've got to go
into a series of reactions on that. You just have to as a person. You
have to go through a depression thing, you have to go through almost a
suicidal thing in some cases, where you want to join those people, because
it can be bad. It's something that people with terminal illnesses really
have to go through. Not only dealing with it themselves, but dealing with
it around them.
It's like an old person loses their friends, our
grandparents talk about how they outlive their friends and how that's a
burden on them as people. And we appreciate that at a lot different point
in our lives because of what this is, and that's one of the things that
marijuana does help. It is an element. It is a mood elevator. It
makes people happy.
By having a conducive, happy environment we start to
counteract that natural tendency within ourselves to be depressed and to be
cynical and to be metaphysical, and start bringing people back and
linking people up into a new set of friends. And back in the party of
life. Because life really is a party, it is. And you have to be happy, and
for some people like ourselves, people who are troubled more than they ever
could be or should be, marijuana not only helps them with the appetite
and the nausea and the other drugs in a real, real way, but it also has
that extra little mental thing of being antidepressant, of lifting their
spirits just a little bit, of buoying them up just a little bit, giving
them a little hope, changing their viewpoint just ever so slightly so they
can see their condition from a different set of views or a different
perspective, and maybe it doesn't look so bad; and that's a big part of
helping people find the desire to live.
To continue to live, to party, to
heal the people around them, to get to a place where they can come out of
that abyss, remember having been there and know when someone else is in it,
where they are and what means to get to them, to reach out to them, and
that's a part of what's going on here too, and marijuana's a big part of
that.
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