Day 55 Patio Garden series 'GROW BUDS FOR VETS

I was prescribed Oxycontin in 2016 when I was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, I refused to fill it. I had just seen a video on YouTube about opioid addiction and I feared that I would also become addicted. I decided to move to Oregon so I could grow my own natural medicine, cannabis. The video I had seen ( I think it was on YouTube, but it may have been on Reddit ) the interviewer was talking to homeless opioid addicts under the Marion Street Bridge in Salem, Oregon. Many of these people were veterans that became addicted after the VA gave them opioids. I recognized a fellow shipmate that was in Boot camp with me in the early 80's. He was living under a tarp stretched over two shopping carts. I knew I had to do something. I sold my sailboat and used the money to move to Oregon