I have always thought and lived with the irony that the same Nation that asked my brother to put on a uniform and put his life at risk in an activity that eventually did, in fact, take his life held him to be a criminal when he found relief in the only way that he could.
Heck reflects on the irony of his brother's experience with marijuana for medical relief.
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