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RainDog

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10. Vets who use marijuana for PTSD are considered criminals in 43 states

Reply to fredamae (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 30, 2014, 12:02 PM

Apr 2014

The states that allow medical mj for vets (or others) with PTSD include: Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon, Maine, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan.

It's not just a matter of using mj anyway, even if it's not covered as an illness because doctor's monitor vets with drug tests and the use of mj would mean vets are denied other benefit and medications, even.

This is the third time veteran's advocates have tried to get PTSD included for medical mj in CO.

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Veterans with PTSD denied legal medical mj in CO [View all] RainDog Apr 2014 OP

SOB's. nt Mnemosyne Apr 2014 #1

We've still got a long way to go RainDog Apr 2014 #3

Hopefully someone will rectify this quickly. Many that I know with PTSD, vets and others, Mnemosyne Apr 2014 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author RainDog Apr 2014 #8

I am not a vet either, but have PTSD, as does my daughter and was married to a vet with it at one Mnemosyne Apr 2014 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author RainDog Apr 2014 #14

“Twenty-two veterans a day are killing themselves,” but pot is too dangerous!!! Scuba Apr 2014 #2

Another Vet's story RainDog Apr 2014 #4

Hopefully, fredamae Apr 2014 #5

Vets who use marijuana for PTSD are considered criminals in 43 states RainDog Apr 2014 #10

It took Oregon YEARS fredamae Apr 2014 #15

All the more reason to decriminalize/legalize pipoman Apr 2014 #7

I don't know what I would do in such a situation RainDog Apr 2014 #9

Another Vet's story RainDog Apr 2014 #11

Michael Krawitz, a U.S. Air Force veteran, sued the govt to reschedule marijuana RainDog Apr 2014 #12

Riddle me this Ruby the Liberal Apr 2014 #16

If Vets choose to use marijuana RainDog Apr 2014 #17

I can't wait for this insanity to end... Ruby the Liberal May 2014 #20

You and me both, sister. n/t RainDog May 2014 #21

It's entrenched culture war, and it will take time to Eleanors38 May 2014 #22

Another veteran's story of cannabis relieving PTSD RainDog May 2014 #18

How mmj can best be utilized for PTSD RainDog May 2014 #19