Marijuana study for PTSD treatment in veterans wins federal backing

[n2doc]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services' decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug's medical uses.

The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug.

In a letter last week, HHS cleared the purchase of medical marijuana by the studies' chief financial backer, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports medical research and legalization of marijuana and other drugs.

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Excellent news!

[Go Vols]

6. Indeed

[tridim]

2. Or stop playing games and legalize it for all adults. It's inevitable Feds, and you know it.

Non military people also have PTSD and other stresses. It works for them too.

[Warpy]

3. While it might help with the alcohol addiction that so often goes with PTSD

grass makes a lot of people paranoid so the study is likely to be very mixed, especially when it's going to be used in a sterile clinical setting instead of at a relaxed party setting with fewer triggers.

Don't expect any miracles from this one.

[riderinthestorm]

4. Oh happy dance! Please please start this quickly! K&R nt

[Vincardog]

5. Great news. OTOH If I was looking for the perfect place to grow MMJ it wouldn't be Mississippi