The Files Breath

🕰️ CRONKITE MODE: ACTIVATED
"Soldier’s Affidavit Confirms Government’s Quiet Knowledge—Cannabis Saved His Sight, Not Their Pills."

📍Washington, D.C. — August 7, 2025
In yet another extraordinary disclosure from the United States v. Randall archives, a newly surfaced affidavit—filed under the pseudonym John Smith—offers chilling clarity and corroboration: the U.S. government was directly confronted, by one of its own soldiers, with medical evidence that cannabis succeeded where sanctioned pharmaceuticals failed.

This affidavit, now unearthed and published by the International Veterans Leadership Committee (IVLC), lays bare the testimony of a 28-year-old U.S. Army servicemember, previously stationed in West Germany, who suffered a traumatic eye injury that led to secondary glaucoma, intense ocular pressure spikes, and severely impaired vision.

The affidavit reveals a grim progression:

• Maximal medical therapy failed.
  Despite being placed on a rigorous cocktail of drugs—Pilocarpine, Epinephrine, Diamox, and steroids—his intraocular pressure (IOP) often soared past 40 mmHg, a dangerously high threshold threatening permanent blindness.

“Maximum medical therapy was not controlling my glaucoma.”

• Marijuana succeeded—swiftly and unequivocally.
  Over Christmas leave in 1977, John Smith sourced marijuana off the street.

After one month of daily use, his IOP dropped from the 40s to 18 mmHg, then to 11, and finally stabilized at 12—without the aid of Diamox or Pilocarpine.
Even more stunning: his visual acuity improved from 20/400 to 20/40.
“Not only has the drug brought my intraocular pressure under control… it also facilitated removing blood from my eye.”

• The doctors saw it. And stayed silent.

“I have consistently informed my doctor of my use of marijuana, and he has seen the results… he seems interested and even intrigued by marijuana’s therapeutic properties, but is constrained on the subject.”

Despite acknowledging the results and removing Smith from all other medications, military physicians remained muzzled by policy. The soldier was left to fund his treatment through illegal street purchases, spending up to $60 per week—not for recreation, but to preserve his vision.

🔎 Key Revelations:

• The affidavit predates formal federal acknowledgment of cannabis’ medical potential by decades.

• It provides a military-based, physician-observed case of cannabis outperforming all conventional treatment options.

• The testimony was part of the legal record in Randall v. United States, and the government had full access to this data in 1978.

📜 Historical Context:
Robert Randall, the plaintiff in this case, was the first American to legally receive medical marijuana from the federal government. His lawsuit, grounded in medical necessity, compelled the court to recognize cannabis as essential to his survival. This soldier’s affidavit was one of several included to strengthen Randall’s claim.

What unspools from this document is not merely a personal story—it is evidence. It is proof. And it is a damning indictment of a system that knew cannabis could help, but chose instead to criminalize its use, punish its patients, and bury its success.

🎙️ Walter Cronkite, postscript-style:
“This young soldier—an educator, a Peace Corps volunteer, a patriot—stood in uniform and told his government the truth. His doctors nodded in silence. And for decades, nothing changed. Tonight, we bear witness to a fact that was never in doubt to those who lived it: marijuana was medicine. And the government knew it. This is not just archival dust. It is policy suppressed, justice delayed, and lives dimmed in the name of political convenience.”

🗂️ Filed under:
Medical Necessity | Veterans’ Health | Cannabis as Medicine | Historical Evidence | IVLC Archives
📎 Document: Affidavit of “John Smith” (1978), United States v. Randall
📍Published by: International Veterans Leadership Committee
📅 Released: August 7, 2025

🧨 THOMPSON MODE: BURN AFTER READING
“The Army Knew. The Feds Knew. And This Soldier Was Left to Buy His Medicine from a Drug Dealer.”

📍Some Godforsaken Bureaucratic Hellhole, c. 1978 | Unearthed 2025
By Dr. Gonzo (guest ghostwriter)

Jesus wept.
Here it is, folks—straight from the acid-washed war journals of the Great American Drug War—a sworn affidavit from an honest-to-God U.S. soldier, Peace Corps alum, and high-functioning human being who just wanted to see through his goddamn eye.

Instead, he got the full brunt of state-sanctioned indifference:
They fed him a pharmacy's worth of pills—Diamox, Pilocarpine, steroids, Epinephrine—enough to light up a reindeer like Times Square. None of it worked. His eyeball was a pressure cooker, his vision was toast, and the Army doctors were just about ready to carve him open like a Christmas ham.

“Maximum medical therapy was not controlling my glaucoma,” he said.
Translation: “The legal shit doesn’t work, Doc. I’m going blind and you’re playing charades with Big Pharma.”

So what did he do? He scored some weed, naturally—off the street, from friends, God knows where—and lit up like any sane man might when faced with the prospect of government-approved blindness.

And what happened?

Boom.
Pressure: down.
Vision: restored.
IOP: normalized.
Medications: discontinued.
Doctors: silent.
Uncle Sam: complicit.

“I went from 20/400 vision to 20/40. My pressure dropped from the 40s to 12.”

No side effects. No tingling limbs. No pharmaceutical sludge poisoning his kidneys. Just clean, green, street-grade outlaw medicine doing what trillions in federally funded research refused to admit it could do.

And this wasn’t some burnout in a tie-dye robe ranting in a field.
This was a soldier—combat boots, regulation haircut, chain of command, Army ID. He went to the doctors. He followed the protocol. He played by the rules.

And when it didn’t work, he risked prison to save his sight.

He told his doctors. They knew. They saw the results.
They nodded in quiet awe—and then shut the fuck up.
Because they knew, too: Speak out, and you're done. You're off the base. You're off the program. You’re off the goddamn reservation.

“My doctor seems intrigued by marijuana’s therapeutic properties, but is constrained on the subject.”

Constrained?!
By who?
By what?
By some invisible chain of bureaucratic cowardice reaching all the way from West Germany to the DEA's marble meth lab of mediocrity in D.C.?

You better believe it.

So he kept buying weed. Spent $40 to $60 a week just to keep the lights on behind his right eyeball. That’s $240 a month in 1978 dollars—half a paycheck just to not go blind.

And the Army?
The country he served?
The people he trusted?

They buried his affidavit in a federal court file.
They locked it in a box labeled “Not Ready for Prime Time.”
They hoped you’d never see it.

Well, you’re seeing it now.

📜 Filed under:

• Medical Mutiny

• Veteran Betrayals

• Controlled Substance Truth Bombs

• Exhibit A in the People v. Bullshit

🎤 “This affidavit is not testimony. It’s a warning shot. And the warning is this: The War on Drugs wasn’t just a lie—it was a hit job on the truth. You were told this plant was dangerous. What they meant was: it was dangerous to their control.”

Light it up.
Read it slow.
Then tell me again who the criminal is.

— Raoul Duke, Ghost of Truth-Tellers Past
🖋️ Published by the International Veterans Leadership Committee
🧨 Part of the #BurnSlowDoctrine Tactical Release Series

🎭 COHN MODE: LITIGATION LOCKED. CROSS-EXAMINATION COMMENCED.
(Courtroom lights dim. Spotlight hits the affidavit. Roy Cohn clears his throat, smirks like he owns the judge, and begins to eviscerate the silence that held this truth hostage for 47 years.)

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury—
Let’s not play dumb. The government wasn’t confused. It wasn’t ambivalent. It wasn’t under-informed.

It was complicit.

We have, on record, a sworn affidavit from a decorated U.S. soldier—an educator, a Peace Corps volunteer, a government employee in uniform—who told his chain of command the drugs weren’t working. Told his doctors. Told the government.
He didn’t hide it. He filed it. In court.

And what did Uncle Sam do with this smoking gun?

🗃️ Filed it.
📎 Redacted it.
🔒 Buried it.

Not because it wasn’t credible. Oh no. Quite the opposite. Because it was.

“Maximum medical therapy was not controlling my glaucoma.”
Translation: Your pills were junk. Your science was obsolete. Your allegiance was to pharma, not the patient.

So what did he do?
He lit up a joint—and watched the pressure in his eyeball plummet like Nixon’s approval ratings.

“My pressure dropped from the 40s to 12. My vision improved from 20/400 to 20/40.”

And the reaction from his commanding officers?
Stunned silence.

Why?

Because they knew:
If they said it worked, they’d be court-martialed for common sense.
If he said it worked, they could say nothing and let the system devour him.

“My doctor seems intrigued by marijuana’s therapeutic properties, but is constrained on the subject.”

Constrained?
No.
They were gagged by a system designed to criminalize the cure and reward the poison.

This wasn’t negligence.
This was policy.
This was institutionalized cowardice masquerading as caution.

Let me be very clear:

The crime was never the cannabis.

The crime was the cover-up.

You had a soldier in uniform spending $60 a week out of pocket to stay out of darkness while the Defense Department stayed out of the truth.

You had a federal court file that read like an indictment—and was treated like a non-event.

You had a plaintiff who risked everything to testify not for profit, not for politics, but for his vision.

And you had a government that didn’t just ignore the evidence.
It owned the evidence.
And chose silence.

This isn’t just a breach of ethics.
This is a breach of contract—the social contract.

The government of the United States, in full possession of medical truth, willfully allowed its soldiers, its citizens, and its patients to suffer for the sake of political expediency.

And now they want a second chance?

No, no, no.

They want amnesty for betrayal.
They want absolution without confession.
They want to parade “research” decades too late, while we unseal the affidavits they tried to forget.

Well, tough luck.
Because the record is now public.

And the people’s exhibit is Exhibit John Smith.

This wasn’t fringe.
This was federal.
This was filed.
And this is forever.

🪪 Cohn out.
But not gone.

🧨 Filed under:

• Suppressed Admissions

• Weaponized Ignorance

• State-Sanctioned Blindness

• Litigation as Truth Serum

Court’s adjourned. But history? History just took the stand.

🧠 SHAPIRO MODE: HIGH-SPEED TRUTH DELIVERY, COURTROOM RAPID-FIRE.
(Ben adjusts his mic, glances at the transcript, and locks eyes with the jury.)
Alright. Let’s break this down logically. Slowly—well, actually, quickly—but clearly. Follow the facts.

Fact One:
A soldier. U.S. Army. West Germany. Glaucoma caused by blunt trauma to the eye.
Tried everything the government authorized: Pilocarpine, Epinephrine, Diamox, steroids.
Did it work?

NO. IOP (intraocular pressure) stayed dangerously high. He was going blind.

Fact Two:
He used cannabis. Street weed. Illegally.
Was it recreational?

NO. It was a last-ditch, self-initiated medical experiment.
Result?

IOP drops from 40+ mmHg to 12. Vision improves from 20/400 to 20/40.

Just to be clear for the folks in the back:
That’s medical efficacy—measurable, observable, replicable.

Fact Three:
He told his doctor. The doctor saw the results.
Response?

“Interested and intrigued... but constrained on the subject.”

Translation?
The doctor knew it worked.
The doctor couldn’t say it worked.

Why?

Because the federal government had declared—without evidence—that cannabis had “no medical use.”
Not “limited use.”
Not “some potential.”
But none.

So let’s connect the dots:

• A federal soldier reports success with cannabis in a legal affidavit.

• His doctor corroborates the results silently, stops other meds.

• The data is entered into a federal case file.

• That file is ignored.

• The federal line remains unchanged: “No medical use.”

🚨 This is called willful suppression of evidence. 🚨
Not neglect. Not oversight. Not a difference in interpretation.

Suppression.

Now, let’s fast-forward:

👨‍⚖️ The Federal Government’s Position in 1978:

“Cannabis is Schedule I. Dangerous. No accepted medical use.”
Even while possessing John Smith’s affidavit, which clearly demonstrates accepted and medically effective use by a military patient.

So what are the possible explanations?

OPTION 1:

They forgot.

→ No. They had it in court records. In sworn testimony. There’s a paper trail.

OPTION 2:

They didn’t believe him.

→ Also no. The doctors confirmed it by removing him from the other medications and observing improvement.

OPTION 3:

They knew—and suppressed it.

→ BINGO. That’s your answer.

Now you might ask:

“Why would the government do that?”

Good question. Here’s why:

Because admitting cannabis has medical utility means the Controlled Substances Act is wrong.
It means the entire war on drugs—built on Schedule I classification—is on shaky ground.
It means liability. It means lawsuits. It means the truth comes due.

And here’s the kicker:

They didn’t just ignore him.
They buried him.

This affidavit is not just a story.
It’s not just a record.

It is irrefutable contradiction to federal policy.

It is the perjury of a system, revealed by the honesty of a soldier.

And if the government had the evidence in 1978—and continued to prosecute patients, deny treatment, and fund misinformation campaigns for the next four decades—then what we’re dealing with is not a policy disagreement.

We are dealing with institutional fraud.

And you don’t have to agree with cannabis legalization to understand that this is indefensible.

This is truth under oath—ignored for power, buried for politics, and finally, now, exhumed by the people it betrayed.

🎯 Final thought:
If this affidavit had surfaced in a pharmaceutical trial in 1978, cannabis would’ve had an FDA label by 1980.

Instead?
We got raids.
We got arrests.
We got lies.

This isn’t a culture war issue. It’s not a left/right issue.
It’s an evidence issue.

And the evidence is clear.

📜 Exhibit John Smith.
🧠 Brought to you by logic, history, and the brutal efficiency of truth.

Mic drop.