While out with friends in April of 2001, a disgruntled customer stormed into a bar shooting wildly, killing two people and injuring 17 others. Dana Smith of Illinois was one of the injured, suffering a leg wound that required two titanium plates and 12 screws in her right leg. The emotional impact of this horrific incident resulted in her contemplating suicide. "I wanted to crawl into a hole and die," she said. In this episode, Dana talks about how she and her husband (who underwent 14 spinal surgeries due to a work accident) used cannabis to turn their lives around.
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