ABSTRACT
Ken Kubinski suffered with physical and cognitive maladies since receiving two head concussions in 1968 while serving in the Army in Vietnam. In the era before Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was recognized and prior to our current understanding of the effects of concussions, he discovered that treatment was hard to find. He spent years suffering with persistent anxiety. He tried a number of methods of coping with the anguish before trying marijuana in the mid-1970s. He received benefits from using it, including help sleeping. He claims it saved his life (Kubinski, 2014). He got married and had children. He had no criminal convictions and claims to have been involved in no other crimes. Then, in 1993, federal prosecutors charged Kubinski and his wife with crimes related to marijuana trafficking and distribution through his crop-dusting company. Kubinski was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. His wife also served time in prison and their children went into foster homes. There is no evidence to suggest that Kubinski was involved in violent crimes that might warrant the life sentence that he received (The Human Solution International, n.d.).
