Speaker: Emily Justice, Charleston, SC
Emily Justice: I have been using hemp flower for over 20 years now, and I just started using disposable vapes within the last 6 months.
Emily Justice: Life before hemp flower was robotic. I was stressed. I was uptight. I Could not relax. Once I found him, I was able to reflect more and get to know myself more and. It's changed my life.
Emily Justice: If these products were banned tomorrow. It would definitely affect my daily life. My mental health is so much better. With hemp products, um. I have had many doctors and psychiatrists and counselors fully support the use of hemp. And I had my Montana card medical card and now having this here. I'm able to. Use it as a resource and tool. To better myself. So I'm not sure what it would look like if I could not have access to these products.
Emily Justice: I actually love this question because. I have been wanting to ask, have any of you watched a parent die slowly over six months? And then Be told that you only had a few days left with him. Take him to your house. And watch him take his last breath. My dad was drowning, essentially with heart failure. I had to press his morphine every 12 minutes, but. If he had had access to hemp products before, his quality of life those last 6 months. Would have been way different. So denying people. For mental or physical health relief. What are we doing here? Like, what, what are you so against? Like this was a man dying. That just wanted to feel good. That's it. And you're gonna deny people this. I just don't understand.
Emily Justice: Um, Hemp matters to me. Because not only. Is an amazing product that I use every day, but I have a new career in the hemp industry and for the first time in 27 years of working, I have insurance. Paid time off, sick days, paid holidays. So many perks and benefits at this company, they have opened a huge door to the community and. It's just It's creating jobs, it's helping people relieve symptoms that are mental, physical. It's helping people all around. Let's just keep it, it's just a plant. It is just a plant, we have bigger things like we could work together. To actually help people that need help instead of using energy to fight against a plant, there are people starving. Dispensaries would be more than willing to do food drives to hand out to their communities and feed them.
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