Marijuana Offers Hope For Veterans, If Only It Wasn’t…
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“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 develo…
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I already have my card in CT. I’m also a Vet so yeah good stuff!
i have ptsd and im going to jail for pot. Oh the irony.
So.. if marijuana is schedule 1 then why isn’t alcohol?
I think when u compare to alcohol and cigarettes its not all bad but the
economy the American economy was built with alcohol and cigarettes.. And
weed is primarily illegal because of economic reasons as well.
Here’s to “high hopes”.
Back in the day when I was a pothead I wasn’t terribly productive while
high, but, during my “midnight toker” phase, smoking about .5g of low-mids
a night, my ADHD, bipolar disorder and anxiety issues were held well in
check throughout the following day and evening, and I was able to sleep
through the night. Now, being a semi-responsible parent, I don’t smoke,
save for a few special occasion cigars in a year, and seldom even drink,
much less do anything illegal, but I’ve been on prescription medications
that put me in a zombie state, useless to my wife and kids. Worse,
occasionally I’d fly off the handle in a blind rage that seemed like I was
watching through someone else’s eyes, helpless to stop myself, and I’d lost
all will to socialize. Since weening myself off buspar, lamictal and
depakote I’m back to my usual fucked up self.
At this point I’m willing to try prescription pot at bedtime. Might even
help with my back and knee pain. But the Dept. of Veteran Affairs has to
approve it since it’s my health insurer, and finding pot in my system,
they’d take all my meds and put me in rehab.
Fuck all this talk… When is it gunna get CHEAPER…fuck…
MDMA would probably be more useful.
Unrelated, but I really do hate it when people constantly verbalise their
thoughts on Marijuana when they’re along the lines of ‘Marijuana cures
cancer, marijuana has no negative health effects, marijuana isn’t a trigger
for various conditions’ ect. And when they’re told by a health
professional, eg. a psychologist, that it does contribute to triggering
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in vulnerable individuals they start to
whinge and only counter with ‘it isn’t true’.
Obama wanting to cut military benefits, but give ’em something to smoke up
and they won’t resist.
It’s kept me sane for the past 40+ years, I always blame Nixon for starting
yet another GOP war, this one on drugs.Alcohol makes someone with PTSD more
crazy and pot mellows one out.
Prohibitions coming end!!!!!
Drug companies would be affected if cannabis were legalised. I actually
think the government have researched the effects of cannabis …they know
the truth.
Look, I’m pro-weed. There’s a possibility I smoke it, but I’m not 100% on
perscribing for people with PTSD. One of the side effects of THC is
paranoia, especially if the subject is prone to paranoia. Subjects
suffering from PTSD (I mean truly suffering from the actual
condition, not pretend suffering as means to an end) are *without*
*question* prone to paranoia. I mean PTSD is almost synonymous with
paranoia, plus a few other symptoms. Perscribing it as an alternate to a
medication for something as serious as PTSD isn’t wise and frankly, it’s
borderline reckless. Give a paranoid man who’s been trained to kill a
healthy dose of more paranoia telling him it will take the edge off is
incredibly irresponsible.
Let’s just call pot what it is: a harmless recreational drug less dangerous
than alcohol and infinitely less addictive than almost every controlled
substance you can get prescribed to you by any psychiatrist nationwide. The
pretext that it has all these health benefits isn’t entirely true. It does
increase appetite, it may calm anxiety, help with insomnia, and it truly
does help people suffering from chemical dependancy get through the
symptoms of withdrawal. But it’s not a cure-all. .
Weed is a fun thing to smoke if you’re in a good headspace and know you
have your impulses in check. If you don’t, you shouldn’t smoke it until you
do.
Thanks.
I’m a veteran with PTSD who lives in Colorado, I can say with certainty
that marijuana helps when nothing else does. What this video doesn’t
address, and probably should, is the number of veterans who have had their
honorable discharges changed to dishonorable due to being arrested of
possession of marijuana. I wish they had talked about that.
fairly sure i have PTSD and weed helps me by suppressing bad dreams and
helping me sleep at night.
heh betcha ana gets high…………i say to myself as i hit my bowl
I really wanna hit of gasoline now
Heroin is a Schedule I substance, but its medicinal opioid alternative
Dilaudid is Schedule II. The marijuana plant, like heroin, should continue
to be Schedule I and any derivatives using the active ingredients found
therein (e.g. Marinol) should be Schedule II or lower.
10 to 20 % vets have PTSD. Any one care how many Iraqis or Afghanis have
it?
What fucking idiot thought up a war on an abstract idea. Only thing dumber
is the war on terror.
Just because injecting gasoline in your veins will kill you doesn’t mean it
should be illegal.
The Obama administration needs to cut the crap and reschedule marijuana as
a class 3 drug. Or better yet, legalize it!
Participating in this study will forever put you on a list to fail your
4473 check, think carefully before doing it.
Rick Simpson oil has been known to cure cancer!!!!!
Let me repeat that:
RICK SIMPSON OIL HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CURE CANCER!!!!
Ana, thinking me and you need to smoke a joint and we can talk about PTSD
and MARIJUANA all day long.
They make billions on insulin shots alone. Guess how much money tell will
lose if they really find out hey you can grow your own med.
tyt can you do a story on how many people have been let out, maybe its to
soon so once more are out of jail for NON VIOLANT weed offence in the sates
that its legalized? just curious like how empty the prisons get/got, if
theres a notable difference, also curios to see how many people are being
caged and treated like slaves for no reason.
If you need a PTSD case study please leave a comment below lol. Multiple
tours under my belt too.
i know how to stop veterans having ptsd in the future: dont let yourself
become a hired killer of children. when those in the military stop
murdering children in other countries because their government overlords
tell them to they might stop suffering mentally for years after. ptsd is
just a fancy name for legitimate guilt. and they should feel guilty.
As a veteran with PTSD I approve this message.
Israelis studies show Marijuana helps with PTSD. Israel the #1 place for
medical marijuana research
I remember when I was a kid back in the 70s my dad had a friend who was an
executive with Reynolds Tobacco and they were growing Cannabis and studying
it back then secretly with the approval of the US Gov.
+MonsieurPapito Such an empty minded, simpleton & lately quite a
predictable argument/statement by the not to be taken seriously,fat,
crybaby right. New flash, nobody wants kids to have any drug dummy, just
like we do not allow kids to drink whiskey. This shouldn’t have to be
explained, hopefully you’re trolling and not just a few chromosomes short.
The comment section seems to be more dickish than usual today.
It has nothing to do with legitimate ban on non-medicinally valuable drugs.
I just had a look on that list and its not only ridiculous, as most
substances are opioids (I guess pain relief isn’t a medicinal value) but
substances such as MDPV which is a stimulant is listed under
“hallucinogens” right next to Cannabis. Yup. They’re not interested in
anything factual about cannabis. Just banning it because they can’t patent
it.
No way DEA will ever go for anything that includes Marijuana, even for
research. They’re argument will be that it kills and is schedule one, so
there won’t be a reason for them to even consider letting research be done.
They (DEA) have essentially bred generations of Drug Enforcement Agents to
loath the very site of Cannabis as well as deny; due to their
classification on Cannabis, any fact or comment that Cannabis can in one
way or another help someone through medicinal practices.
Slowly but surely prohibition is dying. Bout time. I don’t even smoke weed
often but know it should be legal. I laugh at the government’s high abuse
schedule one classification. The meaning of abuse to you and I are far
different then the government’s meaning of abuse. We would think abuse is
someone that can’t stop using. Uses way too much. Dangerous levels of use.
The government’s definition of abuse is one use. Meaning take one puff of
marijuana and that’s abuse. We are not even talking smoking a whole blunt.
We are talking one puff. The government is like that. Taking words and
twisting their definition of them. But they don’t like telling us that.
Should we really be concerned about helping veterans with PTSD? Isn’t it
great that they pay for their crimes at least this way?
How would marijuana help P.T.S.D.?
The reason why the government is so paranoid about marijuana being
legalized and all is not primarily because of the pharma. alcohol and
tobacco or paper industries….it’s the fact that it functions as Raid on
the dominator cockroaches. It’s a mind opener and mindless control freaks
hate that.
um aren’t many of todays drugs producers owned by the petrochemical
industry
Let’s start a balanced discussion, weather we should demonize drug use in
the first place
Stop going to war and the problem would be over.
Do videogames help with PTSD?
the corporations own the government, the government protects the
corporations. true in every market in the US. as a business you can’t
afford to not bribe the politicians because your competitors are. the only
way to fix this is to get money out of politics.
want the government to represent you? first you will have to get them to
stop representing the businesses that make money off of you.
+nateslovebug my point is ppl are soft today and sending them to war is
going to cause higher % of PTSD
If you arrested everyone that smokes weed you would shut down society over
night!
—un related… Cenk, you seem to be running outside of specs bro, just
caring.
okay i have nothing against weed but dont tell me everythings fine and
great with it, my brother used to smoke it alot and now he has depression
anxiety and paranoia and recurring nightmares, just because he smoked alot
of weed, i know he’s mabye a exception but its still an issue that pisses
me off whenever i hear people telling me its good for you
Here it’s how i feel about the whole thing and you can quote me TYT: pot
doesn’t kill us!!! And that’s the problem. That’s why they won’t legalize
it… Think about it, smoking cigarettes causes cancer… Drinking causes
TERRIBLE impairments, and even liver failures…. Meanwhile pot causes
calmness, hunger, the giggles, and sometimes the occasional paranoia but i
mean that’s not killing us… Therefore FUCK NO they don’t want to legalize
it…. ( it’s sad i know)
Ana should report why the THC gelcap, Marinol, is an approved, schedule 3
drug, yet cannabis is schedule 1 because of THC. The obvious disconnect is
the question worth reporting.