Dale Krause
Marine Corps Veteran | Sheridan, Wyoming
Marine Corps Veteran | Sheridan, Wyoming
Dale Krause served two combat deployments — Iraq and Afghanistan — before a roadside IED ended his career and started a decade-long education in what the VA could and couldn't do for chronic pain. He spent years on a pharmaceutical cocktail that kept him functional but, as he puts it, made him feel like furniture in his own house. He found his way to medical cannabis in 2016 and has been writing about that experience honestly ever since — not as an advocate, but as someone who did the trial and error so other veterans don't have to start from zero. He lives outside Sheridan with his wife Sarah and their two kids.
A veteran breaks down each delivery method — what works fast, what you can measure, and what fits a life with two kids asleep down the hall.
Read Article →Dale's buddy handed him a pre-roll in Missoula. It worked fast. It also taught him what he didn't want out of cannabis.
Read Article →Seven medications. Two combat deployments. One phone call from a buddy in Montana. Dale's story of finding his way from the VA cocktail to something that let him feel again.
Read Article →Forty-five minutes on a bathroom floor in Missoula taught Dale everything he needed to know about cannabis dosing. Here's what he wishes someone had told him first.
Read Article →Trazodone blackouts, Travis Wendt's gummy in Missoula, and ten years of his own data — what cannabis does for PTSD, and what it never will.
Read Article →The list of things cannabis won't do for you — June 14, 2008, a marriage, two kids, and the harder tools that actually changed his life.
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