Veterans are key as surge of states ok clinical pot for PTSD

When ny determined to let submit-anxious stress sickness sufferers use clinical marijuana, it joined a fast-rising tide of states.

Twenty-eight states plus the District of Columbia now cowl PTSD as a part of their medical marijuana courses. The tally has greater than doubled in the last two years.

it's took place amid increasingly seen advocacy from veterans' agencies, together with the 2.2-million-member American Legion. it be urgent the federal executive to let department of Veterans Affairs docs suggest medical marijuana where or not it's prison.

however others, including the 82,000-member Vietnam Veterans of the us, have qualms about advocating for medical marijuana as a remedy for PTSD. Pot is unlawful under federal law and would not boast wide, conclusive scientific analysis.