Legalize it. ABOUT ME!

Dear Judge, My name is Crystal Kuegel and I use marijuana for medical purposes. I have a very severe panic attack disorder due to medical doctors and my family; as well as ADD and severe PTSD from medical doctors forcing me medication as well as my family. I have been forced over and over to take medication (Drugs) to the point where when PORT (Dr. williams) in jacksonville nc prescribed me Klonopin (which I hadn’t been prescribed in over 10 years) for my severe panic attacks due to my severe PTSD, that when I took the klonopin I felt like a drug abuser because i have to take a pill everytime I panic. This brought about traumatic feelings and emotions that formed due to the people I hung out with, and my fear of forced medication, due to white coat syndrome that i have been diagnosed with at Vident Greenville, and my family. My “friends” are hooked on pain pills and the severe emotions that come about when I see pills put me in a panic to begin with. My best friend Maria Snook has recently been shot and killed due to her severe pain pill addiction, because she wanted “to date a guy with drugs...and you know it”-Maria Snook. Currently I take Geodone for mood stabilizations and ambien for insomnia. I smoke medical Marijuana to keep my severe panic attacks and my PTSD flashbacks at bay. PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is an anxiety condition caused by disturbing episodes, such as military combat or sexual assault. In my case it is about doctors, family, and forced medication. Three classes of symptoms characterize PTSD: re-experiencing(flashbacks), avoidance, and hyper arousal (e.g., flashbacks, social isolation, insomina). The persistence of PTSD over time is attributed to changes in brain chemistry that occur at the time of the trauma, when adrenaline and stress hormones are hyper-responsive. My PTSD has been forming now for 10 years due to 30 Involuntary commitments from my family in jacksonville, NC and OMH when i would get loud. when i get loud and yell my feelings, i do not threaten or harm anyone, I just yell about the situation, the cops would get called or my mother would get mad and put her face in my face and say “what are you going to do, hit me?” and she’s mentally abusive and wouldn't leave me alone until i hit her and then she would call the cops after she had me backed into a corner and made me hit her so I could get out of her face, she did the same thing to my step dad, and also made my brother, Jonathan Palmero, homeless, and she has an empty house and lives with my sister, Flora Ortiz that works for the Richlands, NC PD. Due to my PTSD and panic attacks i wasn’t able to defend myself in the right ways and she’s always been emotionally and mentally abusive my whole life. I graduated from ECU in 2007 with 4 years psychology, 1 year of graphic design and 2 years photography. I was diagnosed in 2002 with bipolar 1 with severe mania and manic episodes, ADD and a panic attack disorder. My tricare (my grandma adopted me for tax purposes and due to my mothers incapability due to drugs, i was named after Crystal Meth) stopped when I graduated college along with the great healthcare in Greenville NC that came along with it. (I was on $1000 risperidol shots that caused the left side of my body paralyzation for 8 hrs) When I moved back to jacksonville NC after I graduated college, the healthcare got worse and worse. I ended up starting therapy and doctor care at one service then that service would stop taking people with no healthcare and I got bounced around to a lot of different places and doctors in jacksonville nc. all this was happening when I lived with my mentally abusive mom and my symptoms were getting worse. Marijuana kept me safe and i had a reason to live because at that time when i was being bounced around from doctor to doctor I would smoke it to lessen the VERY severe panic attacks that were being caused with my family. I have NEVER once attempted suicide or acted any way on my suicidal thoughts because of the miracle marijuana put on this earth by God as a PLANT created by God to help people. The way I see it a plant is not a drug until the FDA approves it as one. then the government adds chemicals that makes it a DRUG-aka. pill. like the opium plant and percocets. look at what was done to the opium plant. I smoke a PLANT put down on earth by GOD himself. “It helped with daily tasks like school, work, and relationships,” Crystal Kuegel said. “My mind would race due to thoughts created by a chemical imbalance in my brain and cannabis helps me slow down and think through the PTSD and panic trauma rather than hide from it. I can get through these severe traumatic memories with the marijuana PLANT and I can tell it's helping me because my sleeping patterns are normal when I smoke this PLANT and I don't have anxiety attacks when i smoke the PLANT(not drug), and when i do, the memories and panic attacks are severely less severe.” Statistics show that about 1 in 5 military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan experience PTSD and panic attacks. Given cannabis’ federally prohibited status, veterans and I are instead steered toward antidepressants and antipsychotics, medications that have had very little success in treating severe PTSD symptoms. The miracle marijuana PLANT helps us severely. “The drugs (ambien) that they are giving me … I cant get up in the mornings,” said Crystal Kuegel. “I wasnt the type of soldier who had issues before jacksonville NC or even in Greenville, NC, but they bring the real soldiers back from deployments and put them on these drugs, and they’re falling asleep in the chair. There was no way they could function, there was no way I could function. I’ve seen these military veterans first hand on the drugs prescribed by doctors. I cant even function in a civilian job on the drugs prescribed by the Jacksonville, NC doctors. How can the soldiers? So the marijuana plant is a great alternative.” I know that medical marijuana is not yet legal in the state of NC and I would like to take myself to COURT in North Carolina to prove the effects that this PLANT had on ME in NORTH CAROLINA. because nothing else has helped me. the doctors in jacksonville never helped, there were no psychologists for me to see and talk to and the doctors are passing out prescriptions in jacksonville like its candy for druggies. I am not a drug abuser and NEVER have been. Marijuana has ALWAYS been a PLANT that God grew for us on this earth. I don’t even like to drink alcohol much. Marijuana has saved my life more than once due to suicidal thoughts caused by my family and OMH. I am also 1/4th native american. “A ceremonial pipe (peace pipe) is a particular type of smoking pipe, used by a number of Native American cultures in their sacred ceremonies. Traditionally they are used to offer prayers in a religious ceremony, to make a ceremonial commitment, or to seal a covenant or treaty. The pipe ceremony may be a component of a larger ceremony, or held as a sacred ceremony in and of itself. Indigenous peoples of the Americas who use ceremonial pipes have names for them in each culture's indigenous language.However, the smoking of a ceremonial pipe to seal a peace treaty is only one use of a ceremonial smoking pipe, by only some of the nations that utilize them. Various types of ceremonial pipes have been used by different Native American cultures. The style of pipe, materials smoked, and ceremonies are unique to the specific and distinct religions of those nations. Historically, ceremonial pipes have been used to mark war and peace, as well as commerce and trade, and social and political decision-making.[1] Many Native American cultures still practice these ceremonies.” -google wiki As we are in WWIII now; due to people not smoking marijuana peace pipes over in the other countries; I would like to offer you a sign of peace and pass my peace pipe throughout North Carolina. I also have started a Love Rally online and throughout Greenville NC, where I know many professors at ECU. I started the Love Rally and have been talking to the media, around the time the police officers and the black people got in trouble for violence and we had a peace rally in Jacksonville, NC. Christianity plays a HUGE role in my life as well, as I am a devout Christian and have been celibate now for four years, because when Maria Snook got herpes and refused to take her medication, I swore to God that i would not have sex until marriage. I used medical marijuana to get through Maria’s death and it stopped me from killing myself many times since her death because medical marijuana keeps me calm and focused. it’s just a shame I can’t get it from a doctor like the people in: I. Summary Chart: 25 states and DC have enacted laws to legalize medical marijuana 1. Alaska 2. Arizona 3. California 4. Colorado 5. Connecticut 6. Delaware 7. Hawaii 8. Illinois 9. Maine 10. Maryland 11. Massachusetts 12. Michigan 13. Minnesota 14. Montana 15. Nevada 16. New Hampshire 17. New Jersey 18. New Mexico 19. New York 20. Ohio 21. Oregon 22. Pennsylvania 23. Rhode Island 24. Vermont 25. Washington soon to be North Carolina Please let me offer you (jacksonville NC) my Peace services and firsthand knowledge about this terrible situation in North Carolina where I cannot get my medication. Let jacksonville North Carolinians talk about the legalization of medical marijuana FREELY. We are not smoking the nasty tobacco that kills us these days in our peace pipes. We are smoking medical marijuana in them and trying to pass the peace pipe throughout the world. This is me volunteering a way for World Peace. #SPREADTHELOVEINJACKSONVILLENC #IM NOTHIDING #PASSTHEPEACETOJACKSONVILLENC # MIRACLEMARIJUANAISAPLANT #THE WEED PLANT DOES NOT KILL. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE