As a point of reference, if you have pain you can get all the opioids you could ever want, in ever increasing doses, from the VA.
They hand them out like candy.
I don’t think mariauana and PTSD are a good mix. It sounds like a recipe for a bad trip.
What a classy way to honor the dead. A drug addled force, goody. We deserve to lose if these are the new army.
Luckily for all, the fact is, pot makes everyone live forever, look years younger and cures all cancer. Its just those silly docs that want us to suffer instead of smoke.
HEY ALEX DIAZ..FOX REPORTER..
DON’T YOU MEAN SOME VETERANS ACROSS THE NATION?....
...falling back to liberal tactics of
60’s
Pot should be prohibited for all under 65.
As a veteran diagnosed with PTSD by the VA, I have NEVER smoked, inhaled or advocated the use of marijuana by ANYONE. Throughout my life I’ve seen abortion - previously known to be murder - “rationalized” by survey, after study, after public opinion, now legalized. I have seen euthanasia go from being illegal and immoral to now becoming “legal” as merciful after tolerance by our society to acceptable. Many states have legalized marijuana but we still have the same problems, yet MORE suicides and disturbed behaviors. As much as were are now seeing more “public opinion” sway to accepting a drugged up society, I can recognize that the tolerance we have toward marijuana use is now becoming acceptable, like abortion, like euthanasia, like pedophilia, etc. Giving EVERY person “legal” access to marijuana is NT the answer.
Somedays, I really wish this fantasy were true. I wince at every rough road section I travel to take vets 36 miles each way to their pain management clinic to get their monthly re-fill on their prescription when the VA clinic is 900 feet from their door.
Not for pot to be legal but the other non-hallucinogenic hemp oils to be legal, you bet. They are great medicine.
There was an article in the LoCo news this morning.
“C.J. Harris, a would-be walk-on football player this fall at Auburn University, has been ruled ineligible to play for the school of his dreams by the NCAA because he takes CBD oil to treat epileptic seizures, CNN reports.
http://locoweedfeed.com/weedfeed/2018/may/28/weed-feed-college-football-player-declared-ineligi/
Anybody that says there are no legit uses is full of it.
Bottom line: Marijuana products have shown effectiveness and are relatively safe (but not completely safe, and not for long term use).
As you point out, Cannabis is safer than opiates. It also seems to be much safer than uncontrolled self-medication with alcohol, which has historically been a huge problem with PTSD.
A main pathway for marijuana products to work, is through increasing the neurotransmitter dopamine (which also accounts for most of the anti-nausea effects). Opiates and cocaine also increase dopamine, the brain’s “reward” chemical - raising pleasure, appetite, mood, and improving sleep - great for countering PTSD symptoms like depression and sleep disturbance.
Some people have higher levels of dopamine, others lower, so marijuana will be more effective for some than others (even counter-indicated in rare cases of very high dopamine, like psychosis or schizophrenia) - but it is generally effective for the population at large.
Long term use of marijuana however, has some chronic downsides - depressed dopamine levels, amotivational syndrome, and some brain changes (shrinkage of the orbitofrontal cortex).
There is no science behind the claims that pot is useful in treatment of PTSD
Israel has been at the forefront of PTSD and cannabis for years now. Of course, when just about everyone is a veteran, the BS tends to get cut real quick.
Opioids are plant based, just like marijuana.