Jack Diodato

New York

"As a young cabin boy, the elders taught me how to administer medicinal herbs. They taught me to respect everything consumed. And it kept me off of drugs and alcohol. My youngest experience [with cannabis] successfully defeated my asthma.

"Cannabis is one of the safest, most useful of all medicines I ever had to take. And I don't think the government should use taxpayer dollars to falsify information about it."

• Business owner; Inventor of a swim harness; Disabled and retired Merchant Seaman; horseman; and aviator
  

• Volunteer with horse-related organizations
  

• Interested in everything: languages, sports, boating, flying, etc., etc., etc.

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