Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Marijuana To Treat Veterans' PTSD

[Tx4obama]

Source: AP (via HuffPo)

The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services' decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug's medical uses.

The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug.

In a letter last week, HHS cleared the purchase of medical marijuana by the studies' chief financial backer, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports medical research and legalization of marijuana and other drugs.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/ptsd-medical-marijuana-study_n_4980702.html

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Also here: http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/marijuana-study-veterans-wins-federal-backing

[pipoman]

1. Bet they don't have trouble finding volunteers for that study...

[jtuck004]

3. Beat me to it by that much. lol

Maybe they could put in the MRE's.

Funny...

"Ok, we are gonna take that hill"

"Whu?"

"C'mon, gotta go take that hill"

"No man, it's a beautiful hill like it is. Got any chips?".



No More War.

[eggplant]

2. Bet they use crappy gov't grown weed...

[pipoman]

6. It says that the funding organization can procure tthe weed..

[JackInGreen]

11. In my experience

that 'crappy gov't weed' is pretty close to my local dispensaries top shelf, the feds may be fuckers but their gardeners know what they're doing.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Wow - this is HUGE!

Reschedule it now, please.

Hopefully these Vets will be allowed what the market is producing now and not that 'sanctioned' Mississippi dirt weed. Did you see the pics of that barrel in the CNN/Gupta special? Looked like he was digging around in dried up, ground up yard clippings. Ick.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. SMOKING MAROWANNA IS MORALLY WRONG

Killing people in war, meh

[JoeyT]

7. There are a few illegal drugs that

have shown to be so good at treating PTSD that there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to ever suffer from it for long.

ETA: Other than puritanism, I mean.

[sakabatou]

14. Wasn't XTC a drug studied to be used as well?

[JoeyT]

15. Yep. MDMA seems to work wonders for people with PTSD.

From what I can understand, it allows them to relive the traumatic experience without the trauma part.

[sulphurdunn]

8. Drugs, friends, work and hobbies

are the best treatment for any disturbance of the mind.

[Phlem]

9. Been using it for 30+ years for my PTSD

Which I got from an angry military drunk who abused me as soon as he married my mom. I was 3 and still remember the first punch.

It's about fucking time!



-p

[blackspade]

10. Excellent news

[Tumbulu]

12. The VA has been treating my Vietnam Vet brother with medical marijuana

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for maybe 6 years now? It is not at all controversial, it seems to me, or him. It is just one of his medications and all together, he is really doing so much better.

[RussBLib]

13. Really huge! And I have but one thing to say....

THANKS, OBAMA!!