Veterans Ask Colorado For Right To Use Cannabis To Treat PTSD
Joe | Jul 08, 2010 | Comments 3
You may have read the article in the June issue of The 420 Times Magazine (to subscribe for home delivery, click here) about The Veteran’s Administration Policy on prescribing marijuana to veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Now veterans and cannabis advocates in Colorado are asking the state to allow medical marijuana to be prescribed to those who risk their lives for our freedom.
They have filed a petition to get PTSD on the list of ailments medical marijuana can be prescribed for.
The petition argues that medical marijuana can help with PTSD — especially in veterans — by easing depression, anxiety and nightmares. The petition was formally filed at the state health department by Kevin Grimsinger, an Army veteran and double amputee who said he lost his legs after stepping on a land mine in 2001 in Afghanistan.
“People who have served our country or other people who were injured and have PTSD should be able to have access to medicine that helps them,” said Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, an advocacy group backing the petition.
In what crazy, backwards dimension is it okay to deny our veterans medicine…any medicine? I don’t care if they need to smoke ten pounds of crack a day to ease their depression and nightmares, if any group has earned it, it’s our veterans.
This man had both his legs blown off for God’s sake. Can the government really tell him with a straight face to take a hike when he asks for medicine?
The way we treat our veterans in this country is shameful, and has been for some 40+ years. This is just another example of them giving us 100% of themselves, to die if necessary for our freedoms, and we screw them when they get home. Thanks for fighting in a war for us, now buzz off. Lost both your legs and having nightmares about landmines? Sorry, you can’t have any marijuana, it’s dangerous.
Sounds extreme, but this is exactly the message we send to our vets.
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It’s the title of this one that bothers me most. Asking? For rights? No. Rights are taken. These people should know that more than most. Take your right and to hell with what anybody else has to say about it.
Of course medical marijuana should be available for people with PTSD, many top educational institutes have studied and shown that pot restores size and function to the hippocampus, an are of the brain that is in fact destroyed by the stress that brings on PTSD.
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