Disabled veteran needing advice

I am not technically homeless but I am afraid I will be soon. I was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2001 for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Since that time I have been able to hold down a full time job until the last two years. Recently I have been staying with my brother and his family. I can no longer do this I am a burden and would rather be homeless than hender my family any further.

I do not live in a state that allows medical marijuana but I know that if I could find a way to relocate and was allowed to legally get medical cannabis I could get back on my feet. I have used cannabis in the past and it helped a lot.

Lately I have had depression that almost rivals the pain in my joints and back. Often I feel like just packing my bags and heading to Cali but hate the idea of
becoming a burden to a new state.
Please Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am not asking for a hand out just just looking for options.

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Originally Posted by bamspay

I am not technically homeless but I am afraid I will be soon. I was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2001 for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Since that time I have been able to hold down a full time job until the last two years. Recently I have been staying with my brother and his family. I can no longer do this I am a burden and would rather be homeless than hender my family any further.

I do not live in a state that allows medical marijuana but I know that if I could find a way to relocate and was allowed to legally get medical cannabis I could get back on my feet. I have used cannabis in the past and it helped a lot.

Lately I have had depression that almost rivals the pain in my joints and back. Often I feel like just packing my bags and heading to Cali but hate the idea of
becoming a burden to a new state.
Please Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am not asking for a hand out just just looking for options.

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dude, you need to apply for disability. it's a process, but it sounds like you could qualify for va disability, and social security. if you haven't you need to set-up some appointments at your local va hospital and get the ball rolling. you want to see regular docs, and psychologists. they can get you treatment/meds fro your depression. this will also start a medical history that you're going to need in order to qualify for benefits/disability. social security is a very long process, but you'll receive retro-active benefits when you finally get approved. being medically discharged will really help in your va case, good luck!

Yes apply for SSI. You have to have 10 years of work history for SSDI but you don't need any for SSI. And really play up the mental side of this. Believe it or not its the most important part of getting the claim approved. Claim deprression, anxiety, fristration everything you can then on top of your medical issues you should be able to get it. With SSI you will get medical treatment immediately, with SSDI you have to wait 2 years. You can file the claim online or go to your local SSI office and do it there.

Thanks for the replies. I will definitely look into SSI. I am getting disability through the VA but since they rate me on actual mobility not pain I do not receive enough to live on. As far as depression the only help I have had with the VA is them giving me mood enhancers. I will not take those again nor will I take any psychotic meds. Those seem to make me worse and make me feel like a different person. For over two years I have asked to be able to just have a counselor or someone to talk to and yet it has not happened. They have no problem giving me meds but can't seem to help me with what I need.
Also I still do not see them helping me get Medicinal Cannabis. I'm sure you guys are thinking once I am on my feet I could afford to travel to where it is legal and I guess that is true. Thanks again.

hey guy, it sounds like you may be able to qualify for 100% with the va. do some research into unemployability.

Thanks for the advice I am looking into unemployability now. I will have some issues since my rating is low but there seems to be exceptions. I was talking to a lawyer today about it.

I say screw SSI unless you really, really, can't do anything else. Unless you want to be very poor the rest of your life or trying to hide your other income.

You'd be better off moving to a cannabis friendly state where you can get and use your meds in relative freedom.

And stop thinking of yourself as a liability, man. You're a Marine and you put in your dues; you don't deserve to be kicked around because cannabis helps you to deal with your issues- Marine or not. It should be the right of any human being.

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Originally Posted by bamspay

I am not technically homeless but I am afraid I will be soon. I was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2001 for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Since that time I have been able to hold down a full time job until the last two years. Recently I have been staying with my brother and his family. I can no longer do this I am a burden and would rather be homeless than hender my family any further.

I do not live in a state that allows medical marijuana but I know that if I could find a way to relocate and was allowed to legally get medical cannabis I could get back on my feet. I have used cannabis in the past and it helped a lot.

Lately I have had depression that almost rivals the pain in my joints and back. Often I feel like just packing my bags and heading to Cali but hate the idea of
becoming a burden to a new state.
Please Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am not asking for a hand out just just looking for options.

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I personally HATE our socialized medicine system up here, but if you came up here for like whatever the max visa-needed stay is (no idea, but you could apply for landed immigrant status after two years, and provincial healthcare kicks in immediately. Then they take a wee bit more taxes off the top, and basically ignore ya unless you stumble into the local medicentre with multiple gunshot wounds.

I would be happy to help you if you found yourself in Toronto the Good, and it takes about three forms and one to three months of bureaucratfuckaround to get your 'papers' up here, but with the condition you have, not only could you qualify for a /really/ decent 'personal' amount*, you could also designate me as your 'gardener', and all you'd have to do would be to collect a large sack o' weed about every 1.5 to 2 months, for zero cost, with occasional trips to the garden to be scheduled as permitting.

If, as I suspect, they'd give you an allowance of more like six grams per day, that means that I could grow 45 plants for the both of us (with 30 of them being 'yours', and 15 'mine', and a veritable jungle of flowertops...{or help you set up your own grow for 30 plants if you have a green thumb, but if you wanna grow good stuph, there is a wee bit of heavy lifting involved...}), perfectly legally, and above board, and baba, I'm growing Purple Kush**...

And, if you designate me as your 'gardener', honouring the service that you've shown to both the land of your birth, and, secondarily, to your neighbour to the north... well, let's just say that there'd be a large sack of weed in your lap sooner than you think, to hep' take that mean ole pain away***.

C'mon' up, the extended visa stay is fiiine! Get a job that allows you to just barely survive so you wind up paying no taxes anyways, and we can work out the details later! :)

(c)C :chainsaw:

*IF you managed to pursuade your doctor that you needed the same three grams per day, as I have, this qualifies you for a grow of 15 plants, 90g personal on your person in public at any given time, and 675 FIRKIN' grams of 'personal' stash (1.48lb... Hmmm... would that be enough to get you thru the next 1.5 to three months until the next 'garden' comes in?

**My /other/ plant is White Widow (from bagseed!), and verified femmy as of two days ago :D My /other/other/ plants (also from bagseed!) are Mr. Freeze (also femmy!), with the otherotherother plant being /Rainbow/ (/likely/ Femmy!)... I'm thinking about ways to cross 'em all...

***As someone who didn't know he had arthritis until he stopped smoking weed for two months out of financial necessity... See pic berow of /Cougaah/, Beroved Numba9 Prant; five reeks intow regg(ing) {aiyAAH!}.

(c)C :cool:

hey without getting into too much detail i work for va (claims side) i would like to help. I can go over some other possibilities in regards to your va compensation and claim.

I am also a disabled vet. Either way let me know.

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Originally Posted by CovertCarpenter

I personally HATE our socialized medicine system up here, but if you came up here for like whatever the max visa-needed stay is (no idea, but you could apply for landed immigrant status after two years, and provincial healthcare kicks in immediately. Then they take a wee bit more taxes off the top, and basically ignore ya unless you stumble into the local medicentre with multiple gunshot wounds.

I would be happy to help you if you found yourself in Toronto the Good, and it takes about three forms and one to three months of bureaucratfuckaround to get your 'papers' up here, but with the condition you have, not only could you qualify for a /really/ decent 'personal' amount*, you could also designate me as your 'gardener', and all you'd have to do would be to collect a large sack o' weed about every 1.5 to 2 months, for zero cost, with occasional trips to the garden to be scheduled as permitting.

If, as I suspect, they'd give you an allowance of more like six grams per day, that means that I could grow 45 plants for the both of us (with 30 of them being 'yours', and 15 'mine', and a veritable jungle of flowertops...{or help you set up your own grow for 30 plants if you have a green thumb, but if you wanna grow good stuph, there is a wee bit of heavy lifting involved...}), perfectly legally, and above board, and baba, I'm growing Purple Kush**...

And, if you designate me as your 'gardener', honouring the service that you've shown to both the land of your birth, and, secondarily, to your neighbour to the north... well, let's just say that there'd be a large sack of weed in your lap sooner than you think, to hep' take that mean ole pain away***.

C'mon' up, the extended visa stay is fiiine! Get a job that allows you to just barely survive so you wind up paying no taxes anyways, and we can work out the details later! :)

(c)C :chainsaw:

*IF you managed to pursuade your doctor that you needed the same three grams per day, as I have, this qualifies you for a grow of 15 plants, 90g personal on your person in public at any given time, and 675 FIRKIN' grams of 'personal' stash (1.48lb... Hmmm... would that be enough to get you thru the next 1.5 to three months until the next 'garden' comes in?

**My /other/ plant is White Widow (from bagseed!), and verified femmy as of two days ago :D My /other/other/ plants (also from bagseed!) are Mr. Freeze (also femmy!), with the otherotherother plant being /Rainbow/ (/likely/ Femmy!)... I'm thinking about ways to cross 'em all...

***As someone who didn't know he had arthritis until he stopped smoking weed for two months out of financial necessity... See pic berow of /Cougaah/, Beroved Numba9 Prant; five reeks intow regg(ing) {aiyAAH!}.

(c)C :cool:

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That sounds like an excellent option, however relocating is not going to be possible until I have some sort of steady income.

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Originally Posted by 19Dvet

hey without getting into too much detail i work for va (claims side) i would like to help. I can go over some other possibilities in regards to your va compensation and claim.

I am also a disabled vet. Either way let me know.

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I would really like to talk to you about other possibilities. Perhaps we can exchange emails or maybe IM.

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Originally Posted by bamspay

I am not technically homeless but I am afraid I will be soon. I was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2001 for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Since that time I have been able to hold down a full time job until the last two years. Recently I have been staying with my brother and his family. I can no longer do this I am a burden and would rather be homeless than hender my family any further.

I do not live in a state that allows medical marijuana but I know that if I could find a way to relocate and was allowed to legally get medical cannabis I could get back on my feet. I have used cannabis in the past and it helped a lot.

Lately I have had depression that almost rivals the pain in my joints and back. Often I feel like just packing my bags and heading to Cali but hate the idea of
becoming a burden to a new state.
Please Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am not asking for a hand out just just looking for options.

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my name is stacey hofland and i sent you a message recently with my number instead i will give you the national call center for homeless veterans 1-877-424-3838 it states that you can call for yourself or someone else it is free and confidential trained va counslors to assist available 24 hours a day 7 days a week information about va homeless programs and mental health services in your area that can help you i hope this information helps you i have ptsd as well and im just about homeless myself because of my disability and lack of medication so your not alone god bless and good luck

All good threads!
Move to Canada man! The laws are lax at best. We have a Social Assistance program that will help anyone. You hurt yourself at work, can't work because of illness or simply came to Canada for a better life. It doesn't matter, they'll give you enough to survive and put you on their medical plan. free treatments, free prescription drugs. Our soup kitchens are great. Come here and you'll have the best chance to get the medical coverage you need. You can live under the radar here. And without argument, we have the best of smoke available right here in this country that's not hard to get or even grow. Find yourself a stoner chick and marry her man, they make the greatest wives. Then you get to stay here for the rest of your DAZE worry free.

That's a great feeling man!

Pick a place like Vancouver and move there, the laws are not strictly enforced for simple possesion, pay the fine.

Best of luck man, in your search for the pain free retired life. make the best of it, we only get one chance at our age.

Good luck Bamspay you deserve the help....