Thomas Quiter: Disability, Cannabis, and Power Wheelchairs

0:00 – Intro: Thomas Quiter, disabilities and cannabis advocate
1:09 – "I run better than the government"
2:15 – Upstate, downstate, and Western New York
3:19 – Misunderstandings between upstaters and the city
5:23 – Chantix nightmares and quitting cigarettes
7:32 – Genetics, parents who smoked, and addiction
10:38 – How It's Made and what's in tobacco
12:48 – The tobacco industry's nicotine science
13:52 – Switching to organic tobacco
15:59 – Cannabis today is much stronger
18:06 – Diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta as a baby
22:17 – Why diagnoses don't reach child protective services
24:22 – A treatment the FDA wouldn't allow
25:28 – Sitting up in bed for the first time
27:36 – Scooting on his butt and refusing to stop
30:47 – Managing his first SSI check
31:47 – College debt and a failed architecture major
33:58 – Drinking whiskey with the military guys
35:03 – Quitting alcohol on his own
37:13 – Why rehab wasn't safe for him
38:17 – Bad sidewalks and a run-in with the cops
40:26 – A disabled child placed in a home with no ramp
44:38 – Malice or just a terrible spot?
46:48 – A bone density score of negative nine
48:52 – Fracture after fracture
50:58 – 2 a.m. on Queens Boulevard
53:06 – Power wheelchairs in New York City
54:08 – The medical equipment industry's lobby
57:16 – Fake suspension springs on wheelchairs
58:19 – Shopping eBay for a better chair
1:00:28 – Use it or lose it
1:02:35 – A crowdfunded chair in two months
1:04:43 – Bedsores and the decline of wound care
1:05:48 – Peer counseling two people at a time
1:08:57 – Building a support network with a disability
1:10:03 – Running for office and local politics
1:11:03 – The Cuomos and welfare abuse
1:14:17 – MIF's first grants and open-source wheelchair designs
1:16:24 – Where to find Thomas and wrap-up