Please read Bills story from SURE DEATH to LIVING all because of a plant that your government stops people from growing. BLOOD on this governments hands!
Bill Davis
Yesterday at 6:26pm
Following is my story as shared from the South Carolina Senate floor. It is long and I appreciate the time anyone takes to read it.
In April of 2015, I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. In layman terms, that means my lungs were sick. Medically speaking, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a disease in which the lung tissue becomes thick, stiff and often scarred. Basically your lungs are crystalizing. Normally the disease is caused by smoking or being exposed to breathing chemicals such as from a work environment. I have never smoked and was raised in a smoke free environment. I was never exposed to hazardous chemicals as far as I know.
It was medically determined that my case was basically incurable and terminal within a few years and most likely within a few months. I was placed on a then newly approved drug, Esbriet, and was told it might prolong my life but certainly would not improve my standard of living or cure the disease. Also, the known side effects were very concerning. By September 2015, I had reached a point where daily activities were very difficult and I realized the disease had progressed rapidly. I had great difficulty walking the 60 yards to my mailbox to get our newspaper. I had quit all yard work and did not even dare hunt or fish. I began to lose control of some bodily functions. I lost complete control of my bladder on occasions. Diarrhea and abdominal pain had reached such a point that Hydrocodone and Hyoscyamine were needed to get me through what quality of life I had. Both of these narcotics are taken from the codeine/opium family derived from the poppy plant. Kaopectate had become my drink of choice. My life was becoming extremely painful, non-productive and often humiliating.
At my own decision, I started using Cannabis oil high in CBD. Soon at the direction of a medical doctor, I also began vaping marijuana at a temperature that was suggested to provide a high concentrate of CBD properties and lower hallucinogenic properties (THC). The THC was still part of the treatment but not at a level where I felt under its influence or impaired.
At the doctor’s direction, I began monitoring my results with a peak flow meter. Very soon, the results became astounding. I met with the pulmonary fibrosis department at Emory Medical University in Atlanta to discuss my case. The staff at Emory performed their own test and compared them with my personal test results and those taken at our local hospital system. They used what the test revealed when I was first diagnosed as a comparison. They were amazed at the results and took me off all pharmaceutical medication and told me to “continue what you are doing”. Six weeks later I was tested again. It was found my lung function had continued to improve with only the use of marijuana. Another later lung function test revealed my lungs were almost within the normal range of a man my age without a lung disease, not the lungs of a man soon to die with a lung disease. Before marijuana I could scarcely walk 60 yards. I now can walk several miles at a time. I recently pressure washed my house and I again do all my own yard work. Before marijuana I was spending close to $8,000 per month on various prescribed narcotic drugs. Today I am off all pharmaceutical drugs except one Nexium per day for indigestion.
My concern is not only with the fact I am preserving my own life in what most of our society would deem an illegal practice; but through the use of cannabis/marijuana there may be thousands of others whose quality of life could be greatly improved or they may be spared the painful death IPF or other such diseases can lead too. Here, I would like to pause in my story and ask you to think of someone you love very dearly. What would you do to save their life? What would you do to save your own life, especially if you could save a life or spare someone from undo suffering merely by was using a plant that God created? As in most things in life, be it money, prestige, sex, alcohol, marijuana or other such self-indulgencies; it is the human race that has misused these things. Such action has influenced society to characterize marijuana as detrimental to all. Should we outlaw or make illegal all things society has misused?
Through the years I have remained as active as possible. Working 50+ hours a week, exercising, spending cherished time with my wife and sharing many experiences with loved ones. I enjoy yard work, hunting and fishing when my busy schedule allows. My wife and I are involved in full time Christian work. We conduct Bible studies and mentor students from a Christian University. I teach Bible at a center for women struggling with alcohol and drug addictions. I have a published book that I have taught from and distributed to men at another center who are fighting similar addictions. I know firsthand the destruction alcohol and other such drugs can inflict on a family. I have been anti-drugs all my life and have worked in the ministerial field and with law enforcement to help eradicate this destructive evil.
God is opening a door that I really do not want to travel through. But go I must in order to help others. God will not ask you to pass through a door that contradicts anything in His Word. He will not open a door that would require compromise or disobedience to His law for you to enter. We must be cautious that God’s law is not compromised by man’s law. Is it the will of God? Is it an opportunity to help someone else? We must all be willing to rise above our own concerns and limitations and look to the higher benefit of others and the power of God. What if God presents you an opportunity; God opens a door that you really do not want to go through?
There comes a time when we must squelch the fear inside and take a stand and be recognized. A time when we must be seen not only through the eyes of those who approve or support us but through the veil of the preconceived ideas of those waiting to condemn us. We must be heard not only by those eager for our message but we must speak loudly enough to be heard above the racket of the sneering throng. We must be willing to be politically incorrect and unpopular as we speak the truth. No matter what action we choose or what path we trod, our efforts should be to uplift the needs of others even to raising them above our own. I am willing to sacrific my own fate as one individual when this one individual could possibly help maintain the dignity and well-being of many. Thank you for your time, interest and consideration on this most far reaching subject.
Bill Davis
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