Pot Pioneer Colorado Just Now Taking Look At PTSD Treatment

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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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Bill adding PTSD to Colorado medical marijuana list clears Senate committee

1/30/17

<p class="">By <span><a class="" href="http://www.thecannabist.co/author/awallace/">Alicia Wallace</a>, The Cannabist Staff</span>

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A state Senate committee voted 5-0 on Monday afternoon to advance a <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/01/25/ptsd-colorado-medical-marijuana-bill/72105/">bill that seeks to include PTSD</a> as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana in Colorado.



I probably wouldnt be alive today if it wasnt for cannabis, said veteran Curtis Bean, one of dozens speaking in support of the bill before the State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee. Bean said he has lost one friend a year to suicide as they struggled with the side-effects of drug cocktails prescribed to treat their PTSD symptoms.



The committee also heard from representatives of the states major medical organizations, which urged caution for such an addition without more robust research.



PTSD doesnt have an age or a gender, said Dr. Charolette Charlie Lippolis, a child and teen psychiatrist. Most sufferers are not vets. I have concerns, grave concerns, about putting this forward as a medical treatment without the data to support that.

The amended <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb17-017">Senate Bill 17</a>, co-sponsored by Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, and Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, would add PTSD and acute stress disorder as disabling medical conditions under the states medical marijuana law.



SB 17, which heads to the full Senate for consideration, <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/07/26/medical-marijuana-research-ptsd-medication/59050/">is the latest attempt</a> of many to include PTSD as a medical marijuana qualifying condition in Colorado, joining the likes of diseases and conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, seizures, severe nausea and severe pain.....





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