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Dr. William Duffy Troutt:

Born in Arizona and raised in a remote region on the foothills of the Superstition Mountain Wilderness. His birth came during the turbulent end of the Vietnam war and in the same year President Nixon declared the Drug War in the streets of America and on the Arizona Border.
Dr. Troutt’s parents were anti-war activists. He grew up in a counter-culture environment where cannabis was a religious sacrament, medicine, food, soap, rope and hope for the future.
Managing to survive his parents and the Apache Junction School District he went on to graduate magna cum laude from ASU with a degree in biology.   He then obtained a degree in naturopathic medicine and was licensed to practice medicine in Arizona.
Dr. William Troutt has unequaled knowledge of natural medicine and cannabis in particular. There are few people that know more about the good, bad and ugly side of drug use and the benefits and risks of medical marijuana.

Dr. Troutt is a modern day Shaman of the 1st degree.
It is only natural his interests would focus on the benefits of combining herbal remedies with the modern high tech world of medicine to promote what he has always held dearest: the Quality of Life.

Arlin D. Troutt/U.S. Hemp

12NEWS reporter Mary Nguyen embellished a story about a bed bug attack on my wife at the Mountain Vista Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona. 12NEWS aired this incomplete and misleading “Bed Bug Attack Story” on Sunday March 3^rd and Monday March 4^th of 2013.  I would like to set the record straight.

I was admitted into Mountain Vista Medical Center for a leg surgery on Thursday February 28^th.    Dr. Hani Shennib performed a successful surgery on my thigh. He examined me the next day and ordered a registered nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to remove the 2 drainage tubes from my left thigh and release me.

The ICU nurse failed to cut all the stitches in the deep drainage tube before she tore the tube from my leg. The pain was indescribable and the damage was profound.  The nurse immediately put adhesive tape directly on the wound and quickly concealed it with a bandage. She left the bloody tubes on the sink and left the room. According to other floor nurses she did not mention any of this in her reports.  I complained of this incident directly to the Chief Nurse but I don’t believe he forwarded what happened to me after surgery to Dr. Shannib.

The hospital also failed to release me as Dr. Shennib had ordered on Friday, March 1^st. I got trapped in the hospital’s “mistake damage control system” until Sunday with a sick wife that refused to leave my side.

After I found a bed bug infestation inside the sleeper chair my wife was sleeping on in the recovery room I contacted the Chief Nursing Officer for Vista Medical Center (Bill Southwick). I expressed my concerns that this incident in the ICU and the bed bug infestation was getting swept under the rug. I made a deal with Bill Southwick that would allow him to aggressively clean this hazardous mess up and not try to cover it up.  After moving me to another filthy room with a filthy guest chair I found out that the hospital administrators were not even warning or informing the nursing staff on the floor about the bed bug infestation.

After it was clear Bill Southwick broke his deal to clean the place up and protect the staff and patients, I contacted the most fearless reporter I know.  Lindsey Collom (Arizona Republic) could not cover the story and she deserved a Sunday off.  She forwarded my complaint about the hospital cover up to Eric Watson at 12NEWS and he called me on the hospital telephone.

I explained to Mr. Watson that Bill Southwick had not carried through with his promise to clean the mess up and that he had not informed the nurses and staff of this bed bug infestation.  Mary Nguyen from 12NEWS then contacted my wife and filmed a parking lot interview for 12NEWS.

Mary Nguyen first reported the story on 12NEWS at 10PM.  She was well aware that this complaint regarded the cover up of the bed bugs by hospital administrators not the bugs themselves. That was the complaint and that was the real story that should have been aired.  Instead Mary Nguyen and her crew embellished, fabricated and aired a sensational story about my wife being awakened by bed bugs biting her in the night at a local hospital.  Ms. Nguyen then planted the insinuation that these bed bugs and there generations of babies living inside the chair we photographed had possibly come from my wife (the bug bitten victim) instead of the hospital.  This was after she saw the photos of the colony of bed bugs living inside the arms of the hospital guest chair. Mary Nguyen went on to reassure the public that these human blood sucking parasites that live in hospitals are not dangerous.

Mary Nguyen and 12NEWS ignored some big problems by airing a story that seemed designed to mischaracterize and avoid our complaint and help exonerate the hospital and close the case. By not giving the public the facts about what I was really complaining about at Mountain Vista Medical Center; 12NEWS also puts the public at risk. Shame on the Administrators at the Mountain Vista Medical Center, Mary Nguyen and 12NEWS. http://www.azcentral.com/video/2201591772001

I would also like to express my deepest appreciation for the highly skilled and dedicated professionals that cared for me at Mountain Vista Medical Center. It only takes a few bad apple to make the whole barrel stink. They deserve a lot more credit and protection than they are getting from their administrators or the press.

Respectfully Submitted on March 4, 2013

by Arlin Troutt/U.S. Hemp

Who would have thought snow in the Arizona desert

Snow in the Arizona Desert

U.S. Hemp Activist Arlin Troutt is as Stubborn as a Goat when it comes to Liberty and Refuses to be Silent

The following allocution was delivered by Arlin Troutt at his sentencing Feb. 15, 1996. After hearing these words, Federal Judge Jim Rosenbaum refused the prosecutors pleas to give him a life sentence and sentenced him to 97 months in Federal Prison.

The words of Arlin Troutt:

I was charged and convicted of conspiring to sell a plant that grows wild in this region and once provided legal jobs for Minnesota. This plant is the oldest, safest source of food, fuel, fiber, and medicine on earth, and has infinite industrial and medical value to society.

The government used this plant as an excuse to invade my home, seize my property, take my freedom, and terrify my family. I challenge the logic of the laws that permitted this.

Under oath, the government’s witnesses lied and the prosecution knew they were lying. The government distorted, fabricated, and concealed evidence. They tailored reports, statements and testimony to fit the charge, mislead the jury, and manipulated the justice system.

My Trial took place during the verdict stage of the O. J. Simpson trial. The acquittal of Simpson created pandemonium in America. When Simpson’s verdict came down, this court announced his acquittal to the jury while my trial was in session. O. J. Simpson hysteria had no place in my trial.

Fear and ignorance guided by greed and blind ambition created the prohibition of hemp. I am morally and intellectually compelled to resist these forces. When the American people find out what hemp is and why it’s really illegal, may they deal with this government as harshly as it has dealt with me.

U.S. Hemp served over 7 years in Federal Prisons and jails before he was released from the custody of the Justice Department in 2002.

The Fugitives

U.S. Hemp attended the Occupy Phoenix gathering on Saturday October 15,2011. We joined the other rebels with a cause but without a clue. So, we all put our differences away for the day and peacefully assembled and marched in protest. Most of us seemed to agree that these corporate owned politicians have sold us out to the highest bidders with money they extorted from the middle class. We showed up with U.S. Hemp signs and Agrarian Church literature and attracted a lot of attention and support with our signs: End the Drug War, Don’t Be a Hempocrite and Pot is My Religion. Our Media is Public Enemy #One sign was also a big hit.

J Interview Occupy Phoenix

I have been trying to Ban the Bombs since the Vietnam War. The beatnik holding the protest sign behind the 1965 photo of The Fugitives has passed the quest for peace, equality and justice to my children. I looked the Phoenix police over pretty good on Saturday because 4 of my 7 activist children were with me. A lot of cops smiled at us and gave us nods of support as we passed. It is a mistake to provoke and alienate the police in these assemblies. Beware of agitators that seem to pop up from nowhere and help the media divert attention away from the real issues. I urge anyone and everyone participating in these assemblies for democracy, equality, peace and freedom to go the extra mile to avoid confrontations with the police and each other. “A civil revolution is a hell of a lot better than a civil war.”
On Monday (October 17th) U.S. Hemp hit #1 and #3 on Neil Young’s Living With War Today. This is a popularity chart of 3,430 songwriters and musicians. We have all offered our songs to protest Living with War Today. Again, I would like to thank Neil Young and the people that have listened to my songs and helped put me at the top of that chart for several weeks now. Please go to Neil’s website and support the protest of Living With War Today. I would like to invite you to listen to Line in the Sand and Business is Booming by U.S. Hemp and support our dream of Living Without War Tomorrow. http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/

Tuesday (October 18th) I met with a group of medical cannabis activists that are getting very active in Arizona. This group is focused on the sabotage of Arizona’s medical marijuana law by public officials and the damaging effects of their actions. Allan Sobol is the front man articulating the problems cannabis patients and providers are facing in Arizona. Mr. Sobol and a close-knit group of human rights activists are working hard on the production of a documentary on the medical cannabis situation in Arizona. Mr. Sobol has gone under the camera lights to shed light on the damaging opposition by public officials to Arizona’s medical marijuana law that passed in November of 2010.

U.S. Hemp is looking forward to the release of this much-needed documentary that Mr. Sobol and associates are producing. It is time to tell the truth about the history of the Cannabis Wars in Arizona. Mr. Sobol and his supporters appear to be doing their share for Justice, Freedom and the American Way.

I have added many new friends to our U.S. Hemp News Letter. We always like to hear back from you and we are proud to add new friends to the list. If for any reason you want to be taken off our Newsletter list let us know this too. Peace and Privacy is a Priority.

Thank you for your attention,

U.S. Hemp/Arlin Troutt

Young Girl Protest

Occupy Phoenix Interview