01-31-2017, 09:23 AM
Pot Pioneer Colorado Just Now Taking Look At PTSDTreatment
January 31, 2017
DENVER (AP) The first state to legalize marijuana is just now taking steps to consider the drug medicine for people suffering from <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">post-traumatic stress</span>.
Colorado has authorized <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> marijuana for nearly two decades, and the state approved recreational pot use in 2012. But doctors here still cannot recommend marijuanas use to treat post-traumatic stress, forcing sufferers to pay higher taxes for recreational pot.
Many Colorado PTSD patients interested in pot say they lie to doctors about having chronic pain, allowing them to qualify for <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> pot cards.
Medical obviously comes at a lesser price, and needing it medicinally, we need a lot more than a regular person would, said Ashley Weber, 32, a Longmont native who uses marijuana to treat chronic pain and PTSD from a car accident that left her in wheelchair.
A bill headed to nycthe state Senate would make PTSD the 10th ailment eligible for <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> pot in Colorado. Passage would make Colorado the 20th state to allow doctors to recommend pot for PTSD.....
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January 31, 2017
DENVER (AP) The first state to legalize marijuana is just now taking steps to consider the drug medicine for people suffering from <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">post-traumatic stress</span>.
Colorado has authorized <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> marijuana for nearly two decades, and the state approved recreational pot use in 2012. But doctors here still cannot recommend marijuanas use to treat post-traumatic stress, forcing sufferers to pay higher taxes for recreational pot.
Many Colorado PTSD patients interested in pot say they lie to doctors about having chronic pain, allowing them to qualify for <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> pot cards.
Medical obviously comes at a lesser price, and needing it medicinally, we need a lot more than a regular person would, said Ashley Weber, 32, a Longmont native who uses marijuana to treat chronic pain and PTSD from a car accident that left her in wheelchair.
A bill headed to nycthe state Senate would make PTSD the 10th ailment eligible for <span style="color:rgb(0,153,0);">medical</span> pot in Colorado. Passage would make Colorado the 20th state to allow doctors to recommend pot for PTSD.....
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