I am one of first persons to use Cannabis to treat PTSD

I am one of first persons to use Cannabis to treat PTSD, in the world probably. In 1995 I was getting Great treatment at UCSF because I happened to live in San Francisco, and if PTSD was your diagnosis, the doors were open for you to join the local Cannabis Buyers Club. So I was using weed legally to treat PTSD as early as 1995 making me a… pioneer, I think is the word.

Yay

It was not exactly legal in SF before the law passed, but weed sales or possession was made the "lowest priority" crime for SF police. Then the Buyers Club would be open only from 11 AM to 1 PM so during hours cops took lunch breaks. So there was no way anyone would get arrested for marijuana sales in San Francisco during lunch hour those years unless there was No Other crime being committed anywhere else in the city at that time. The Buyers Club was open those hours and I'd go there sometimes just to have a place to sit and smoke and be around other people living with the slowing of life that comes with illness.

I often thought briefcases of cash must have transferred hands also, to help keep the Buyers Club open before the law passed, as San Francisco is not like other cities.  
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It's also a wonderful use of bad for good that legal marijuana started because so many gay men were dying of AIDS and there was no treatment for it they just were dying. The first buyers club I went to was in the Castro District, a monthly meeting where we could buy medicine without fear of being arrested. It was almost all dying men, being kept alive by the appetite and will to live marijuana gave them. 

If someone tried to open a cannabis buyers club five years later, it wouldn't have worked because there were other treatments for AIDS by then.  The early nineteen nineties were a perfect storm to get weed legalized for Medical Use, a golden opportunity to get legalization everywhere kick started, and it worked.  
Of course, I don't think Dennis Peron and other leaders who made this happen were thinking about future laws, they were really just trying to keep their loved ones alive. 
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At the San Francisco Buyers Club on Market Street, first floor was registration, second floor was low price weed, third floor was high priced weed, and fourth floor was headquarters for the Compassionate Use Act first law ever passed in USA, in the world probably, to make weed legal at least for sick people.  

Compassion Use Act.

Imagine a nation with compassion in all its laws.