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Twenty22Many, a nonprofit suicide-prevention, PTSDawareness and medical-cannabis organization for veterans, has a mission to give out 8,000 cannabis clones to as many US military veterans. Sadly, that figure is approximately the number of veterans who kill themselves in the United States over the course of a year. Most of these fatalities involve Vietnam War vets, who take their own lives more frequently than their younger peers.

Speaking to High Times, project founder Patrick Seifert points out that this general age group makes up the bulk of the crowd that comes to the Twenty22Many center—located alongside the Olympia outpost of Washington State’s annual marijuana festival, the Seattle Hempfest, in a building that used to house Seifert’s dispensary, Rainier Xpress. Within these walls, people can make CBD purchases, pick out hemp clothing and access a truly special program for cannabis-using veterans.

Seifert takes photos of the vets who come in for complimentary clones and posts them on social media to mark the occasion—and perhaps as a method of motivating the program participants’ peers. They are photographed in front of a United States flag flanked by framed