Republican Gov. Chris Christie will decide whether New Jersey residents with post-traumatic stress disorder can be treated with medical marijuana after lawmakers approved a measure Monday.
Colorado residents seeking the use of medical marijuana to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are taking their case to the state Court of Appeals.
Despite the public policy adoption of medical marijuana as a treatment for PTSD, questions loom for some in the medical and mental health communities.
Veteran Stephen Otero’s PTSD symptoms led to a suicide attempt. Otero, now with a healthy lifestyle and marijuana as medicine, hopes to help other vets.
For more than a year, Gov. Rauner resisted expanding the Illinois medical marijuana program beyond the original 39 conditions listed for treatment.
CHICAGO — Illinois must add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of diseases eligible for medical marijuana treatment, a Cook County judge ordered Tuesday in a sternly worded ruling that also said the state’s public health director engaged in a “private investigation” that was “constitutionally inappropriate.” In a lawsuit filed…
What are the specific diseases, syndromes and ailments that qualify for medical marijuana in Ohio? Here’s the full list of MMJ-qualifying conditions.
The New Jersey Assembly passed legislation to allow qualified residents with post-traumatic stress disorder to get medical marijuana for treatment.
A Quinnipiac University Poll revealed registered American voters say veterans should be allowed to use marijuana for PTSD.
The Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix has blocked a local doctor from giving a lecture about marijuana’s effect on veterans with PTSD.
The Rhode Island Senate has passed a bill that would approve the use of marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
A groundbreaking, Colorado-funded study looking at whether cannabis can treat post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans has received the final go-ahead from federal authorities.
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Navy veteran seeking to get five of his children back from state custody in Kansas says his use of medical marijuana to treat PTSD — not the family’s past scrapes with the law — prompted the state’s action.
A growing number of states are weighing whether to legalize marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. But for many veterans, the debate is already over. They’re increasingly using cannabis even though it is unapproved by the Department of Veterans Affairs because major studies have yet to show it is effective against PTSD.
Several people have filed a complaint in Denver District Court against the Colorado Board of Health’s decision in July not to add post-traumatic stress disorder to medical conditions that can be treated under the state’s medical marijuana program.
Critics of medical marijuana won a victory when the Colorado Board of Health voted 6-2 against adding PTSD to the list of approved conditions for the state’s medical marijuana program.
Two responses from the Colorado community about the Colorado Board of Health’s decision this month to not add post-traumatic stress disorder to the state’s list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana.
The Colorado Board of Health made the right call Wednesday when it rejected a proposal to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the conditions that qualify for medical marijuana.
The Colorado Board of Health voted 6 to 2 — amid shouts, hisses and boos from a packed house — not to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the medical conditions that can be treated under the state’s medical marijuana program.
The Colorado Board of Health will vote Wednesday on whether to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions that can be treated with medical marijuana.
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Colorado may add post-traumatic stress disorder as a condition to be treated with medical marijuana — a dramatic turnaround after years of rejecting appeals to make PTSD the first ailment added to the state’s medical-pot program since it was approved by voters in 2000.
Scientist Sue Sisley is best known for her very public firing by the University of Arizona — but she hopes to soon be better known as the researcher who is testing the efficacy of marijuana as a treatment to post-traumatic stress disorder in American veterans. And while Sisley is a finalist for a historic Colorado grant meant for cannabis research, she hasn’t yet received the grant — regardless of incorrect reports in the media.
Former University of Arizona professor Sue Sisley has received a $2 million grant from the state of Colorado to continue a marijuana research study on PTSD.
Colorado health officials have recommended funding two studies on childhood epilepsy, two studies on post-traumatic stress disorder and four other studies as part of the largest-ever state research program on medical marijuana.
