📢 ATTENTION NEOPHYTES:

Welcome to the briefing you didn’t know you were waiting for.
You’ve stumbled into a live-fire zone of truth and betrayal, where policy wears a clown mask, history is buried in a VA filing cabinet, and the good guys were left to rot with a joint in one hand and discharge papers in the other.

This ain’t a drill. This is Gonzo Doctrine.

🧠 The Situation (as it stands)

You’ve inherited a nation with:

• Veterans criminalized for treating their wounds with plants older than war

• Truth buried under press releases and “pilot studies”

• Entire movements co-opted by nonprofits addicted to grant money and corporate cannabis licking the boots of regulation while calling it freedom

• Researchers running human experiments for headlines, while real patients are left to bleed out in silence

And through it all?

The storytellers—those with the real skin in the game—were:

• Silenced

• Erased

• Used for marketing

• And told to wait.

Wait for justice.
Wait for research.
Wait for permission.

Nah. F* that. That wait is over.

🚨 The Absurdity

You want absurd?

• The government grew weed in Mississippi for 50+ years but wouldn’t let dying patients use it.

• A man named Robert Randall beat the feds in court using medical necessity—then they buried him in paperwork and red tape until he died.

• Veterans who lit the first torches of cannabis reform were thrown under the bus by the same institutions that now profit off their pain.

• A “safe harbor” amendment was passed that lets the VA look the other way while vets maybe talk about cannabis—as long as they don’t actually help them get it.

All while clinical cowboys ran studies with placebo weed, padded resumes, and got rich off the same veterans they called “anecdotal.”

Absurd? That’s polite.

This is a generational scam and we’re calling it by name.

✍️ Who We Are

We are not “advocates.”
We are not “stakeholders.”
We are not “interested parties.”

We are The Committee.

Founded by the ones who were too loud, too honest, too unfiltered to fit in the polished brochure.

We are the archive keepers. The memory hoarders. The veterans who kept the letters, recorded the hearings, digitized the affidavits, and never let the bastards rewrite history.

We’ve stood with mothers, prisoners, researchers who gave a damn, and elders who bled to legalize survival.

We’ve been blacklisted, bulldozed, and told to “wait our turn.”
We didn’t.

💡 What You Can Do (If You’re Brave Enough)

So, neophyte. You're here now. What the hell are you gonna do?

✅ Step 1: Wake the Fuck Up

If you're just learning that:

• Cannabis was once legally prescribed by the federal government

• The VA has mountains of data it won’t release

• The entire PTSD research narrative was hijacked by profiteers

Then congratulations. You’re now clear-eyed.
There’s no going back. Proceed accordingly.

✅ Step 2: Find the Files

Start with:

• The Proud Highway

• United States v. Randall

• The Green Paper

• The Committee Blog (IVLC)

Read like your future depends on it—because it does.

✅ Step 3: Write Like It Matters

Letters. Blogs. Op-eds. Emails to Congress. Graffiti on a courthouse wall if you have to.
Just write. That’s what the enemy fears—uncensored narrative.

✅ Step 4: Document Everything

If you’re working in this space—save the emails. Save the photos. Save the Zoom chats.
History is written by the ones who keep the receipts.

✅ Step 5: Act Without Permission

You don’t need a title to lead. You don’t need a grant to speak. You don’t need a PhD to call bullshit.

All you need is:

• A moral compass

• A fire in your gut

• And maybe a typewriter that works at 3 a.m.

💀 FINAL WARNING

This work will cost you.
Your peace. Your comfort. Your place at polite tables.
You may lose friends. Opportunities. Favor.

But if you stick with it—you might just earn something better:

📜 A place in the record.
🔥 A voice in the revolution.
💚 A chance to matter—for real.

🎤 Final Dispatch from The Road Man

You still with us?

Then light that joint. Load that typewriter.
And welcome to the real war.

– “The Committee”
International Veterans Leadership Committee
Verified by smoke, scars, and receipts

Jason Frost, Australian Veteran

The Daily Advertiser; Northwest Star; The Young Witness; Veterans Centre Australia;    

Derek Pyrah, Australian Veteran

Petition; #NOMOREZOMBIES; Mercury; Cannabiz; Pondering Pot; Cannabis Law Report; Saigon USA News; ABC;   

Nachum Lamour Fridman, Israeli Veteran

 Video article from YNET; Podcast Interview in Canada - ENGLISH; Interview with Shmulik Schwartz on the podcast "Sustainability or Die";  Article of the Partnership for Regional Sustainability;  Article from Maariv; Meet the first-year student at IDC;

Robert Kowalski, American Veteran

Inspired and Admired; Cleveland; EmedEvents; blog talk radio; talk 927 Radio (Wisconsin); Global Ganja Report; Grass Gazette; NBC 26; CSRA Science; Cannabizmd; WPTV; Cannabis Now; weedmaps; Dispatch; Spectrum News 1; KOAA; Canna Conversations; Canton Rep; Press Reader; Dispatch 2; Cannabis Business Executive; Daily Advent; North Carolina Marijuana Card; Yahoo; Tee It Up; Leaf Live; Off the MRKT; Cannabis Wire; HACC; Veterans Resources; KS legislator; Fox 4 News; Q2; KSBY6; KBZK; KRTV; LEX18; KRIS6News; WFTS; The Green Paper / VAC; Stoned Vet USMC; 

Ricardo Pereyda, American Veteran

Petition; United Patients Group; High Times; Rolling Stone; Lumina Foundation; Healthline; Arizona Daily Star;  UANEWS; Arizona Public Media; MAPS; VICE; Ounce Magazine; Department of Veterans Affairs; Drug Policy Alliance; “Bribing” State Senator  w/Truth and Facts; Park RX/NPS; USS Arizona; Cannabis Business Times; Military.Com; Mint Press; Now This; Hawaii Cannabis; PBS; UANEWS; Tucson Weekly; Combat Paper Project; Arizona Public Media; Public Media; Illegally Healed; Cannabis Now Magazine; Huffington Post; Social Club; Arizona Medical Marijuana Act; Green Market Report; Cannabis Now; The Green Paper / VAC; Malaysia; Tucson Weekly; Community Service; Broadside ‘22; Stoned Vet USMC; CNN Weed 3.