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[I believe my comment, via my last email, did not make the cutoff for being considered at Monday’s meeting. I want to ensure my comment is taken into consideration for next Monday’s
final discussion on adopting this resolution. Please use the revised version of my comment (below), instead of the one I previously submitted.]
Dear County Commissioners,
I am a 39-year-old resident of Jefferson County and a disabled Army combat veteran in recovery. I am writing to urge you to adopt the Resolution on Entheogens, to substantially promote
the health and welfare of our community and greatly troubled society.
I have been on a long and arduous journey of recovery since my year and a half long combat tour in Afghanistan 16 years ago, having had a 100% service-connected VA Disability Rating
for PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury. There are simply no words that could ever convey to you the utterly devastating loss, immense suffering, and debilitating dysfunction I experienced
over those many years, as I consistently failed to receive the holistic, relationally-nurturing, non-pharmaceutical care I needed through the for-profit medical-industrial complex.
The rapid and profoundly-deep healing and positive transformation I've experienced lately with the help of entheogens, in the context of lovingly-supportive close-knit community, is
just as indescribable.
My fellow veterans and I, those of us who did not come home alive, and military and veteran families have sacrificed dearly to further the Great Cause of protecting and promoting the
inalienable human rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The private use of entheogens by competent adults is not just the exercise of those fundamental rights; entheogens
overwhelmingly help to salvage and save lives, promote the psychological healing and perspective needed for us to exercise our liberty more wisely, and reveal to us how to live together
more harmoniously for the sake of the happiness of us all.
Legalization of regulated use is not sufficient to remedy the violation of our inalienable rights, and is insufficient to promote safe access and responsible, relationally-supported
use of entheogens in the ways and with the timeliness necessary to adequately help ensure humanity makes it through the immense existential challenges we are facing. To overcome these
pressing challenges, we must heal and evolve on a scale and at a pace we have never before dared. With agile, innovative, and heart-centered communities as the foundation, we must
proactively heal our personal and inter-generational trauma together, overcome our fears with vision and courage, awaken fully to the truth of our profound inter-connectedness and an
unconditional heartfelt care for one another, and foster the wisdom and creativity we need to succeed at radically transforming our human civilization in the ways it must.
These sacred medicines are indispensable allies in us doing so, and frankly we need all the help we can get if humanity is to have real hope of bringing about the beautiful future we
desire for our children and the many generations of Us to come.
Thank you.
Sincerely in Service,
Matthew Jomei