"As a sufferer of multiple sclerosis since 1999, I use medical marijuana to ease my painful spasms. Marijuana allows me to function normally instead of having to endure the debilitating side effects and mental fogginess that I found accompanied opiate-based painkillers.
I strongly endorse the mission of Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access."
–Montel Williams
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access change.org
Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War
300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression
Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis 11/17/00
He says he smoked marijuana because of arthritis pain in a bum ankle and his left hand. For this offense, the 39-year-old who served his country in the United States Army is paying an incomprehensible price...
... In 1996 Foster was convicted of five drug counts in Tulsa, all revolving around the plants he was growing in an underground backyard shelter.
Foster says he had 38 marijuana plants. He said he was growing them to be harvested in rotation --each harvest to yield about 12 ounces.
Oklahoma prosecuters asserted that they had between 50 and 70 plants and that he meant to distribute. A Tulsa jury sentenced him to a little over a year per plant, 70 years for cultivation. It tacked on 20 years for possession in the presence of minors, his children. Foster asserts they never knew...
The Stoners Will Survive
"What will be done for the returning Afganistan and Iraq War veterans to ensure they receive the best quality health care and counselling services especially for PTSD, employment and housing?"
Concerned Vet, Chicago
"I'm so worried about all the veterans who are coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan with PTSD and not getting proper care of the VA. I want to help them transition back to society. Cannabis has proven to help with PTSD. It breaks my heart knowing they suffer because of the lies that sent us into Iraq."
- Herbalicious / Change.gov
The Blunt Truth: Combat Veterans, PTSD and Medical Marijuana
Marijuana Therapy for Veterans with PTSD
Marijuana, Battle Veterans and the VA
"I am a Vietnam Vet whose life has been devastated by PTSD. I applied for compensation 3years ago but the VA assumes an adverserial role and tells me I have to prove my stressors. The key people for me are probably dead by now. How is this fair?"
Vietnam Vet
"Our returning vets are not getting the care they deserve. Dr's are told not to diagnose PTSD b/c it's too expensive. What will you do to ensure these heros get EVERYTHING they deserve to return to a productive life after they've sacrificed so much?"
DrJay61, Arlington, TX
"What will the Obama administration do for those who are homeless and need mental treatment to fully be in a constructive society? PTSD, schizophrenia, depression, ect."
David, Boise, ID
"I have sent this information in the past but now will re-phrase as a question. What is being done to prepare for all of the military PTSD needs? I am a trauma specialist and VietNam veteran who is willing and available to help."
m2, dallas
Marty Chilcutt, 72 - Kalamazoo, Michigan
Navy veteran Martin Chilcutt served in air intelligence shortly after World War II, where his duties involved testing nuclear weapons. The radiation exposure left him extremely vulnerable to cancer, which he has suffered from — and survived — three times. He has been in remission for ten years, but there is always a chance that his cancer could return.
Traditional medications did little for Martin’s chemotherapy-induced pain and nausea, and some doctors at the Veterans Affairs hospital recommended medical marijuana. Martin was amazed at how effectively and quickly marijuana eased the intense pain and nausea he felt from chemotherapy. One of Martin’s friends, an epileptic veteran, took his doctor’s advice and tried medical marijuana to prevent seizures. Another veteran friend who developed multiple sclerosis used medical marijuana on his doctor’s recommendation to relieve neuropathic pain and muscle spasms.
"With increasing numbers of combat vets being diagnosed with PTSD and other medical conditions requiring long term care, what is your plan to ensure that they receive all care needed?"
OIF/OEF VET, northern Maine
"As a USMC veterans wife, I am concerned about our military coming back from wars with no real health care support from the VA, particularly mental heatlh care (PTSD). The VA is back-logged with 400,000 claims! What exactly will you do about this?"
Nikki N, American in Europe
"Will Obama support a call to Zionist Israel to stay within the boundaries first set after WWII? Jews were living all over the world and getting along until Fascism. People need treatment for PTSD, not the right to take somebody else's land."
mystiryuss, Hamilton, CA
"As a member of a successful PTSD support group for 10+ years. This makes up for 30+ years I have struggled to get attention. We do need better claim processing, be rid of indifferent employees and look at those who know the "ropes" about claims."
Pieter J, Las Vegas
"I have a story it goes back many years ago. I was married young 14, children 15 & 18. Raped and kept quiet. I have PTSD, I'm losing my home. I'm terriffied of my government. Please, pardon us, give amninsty please help us. Listen to my story."
Hopeless & Teriffied, Baltimore, MD
"VA requires that an illness be tied back to something that started back while they were in the war in order to be considered disabled. What about disabilities that did not show up until later in life, such as adult asthma, ptsd, and depression?"
Douglas Gibson Jr, Fairfax, VA
"What steps will the Obama administration take to insure that all veterans, including those in the National Guard and the Reserves, have access to quality health care? What is being done to improve treatment for PTSD and other mental health issues?"
Elsbeth, Salem, Oreegon
"Returning veterans are experiencing mental health issues, including PTSD, at startling rates. What will be done to screen and provide followup to 1.8 million new veterans? These vets have earned top-notch care but the current system is failing them."
Kathy, Mishawaka, IN
"how about some respect for GI janes who suffers from ptsd mst . Have the VA change the sop their care. Don't have them wear only scrubs with a johnnie gown ,then place them in the same area as the men."
LadyVeteran, Westchester, NY
"I was five months pregnant when I was forceably shoved against a wall by a state policeman and I suffer from PTSD from the emotional trauma. PLEASE you MUST change the process of who/how police officers are selected so this may never happen again!"
Sabrina, Rhode Island
Recovering Our Honor
Drug War Issues for Law Enforcement
Editor: Jim Rosenfield
Recovering Our Honour
Why Policing Must Reject the "War on Drugs"
"How do you expect to field a superior Armed Forces if the government continues to cheat the veterans out of their benefits? It's time to bring home the POWs, treat PTSD, Gulf War Illness, & Agent Orange exposure, & provide for the homeless veterans."
Buffalo Britt, Skidmore, MO
"Will Pres.Obama put significant money into mental health clinics for vets in rural communities? They have borne the brunt of war more than any of us, yet they have no resources to grapple with all the suicides and PTSD cases."
Babs, Arlington VA
"I have an incredibly successful, drug free treatment for PTSD. How can i get the govt to offer this to returning vets? Who do i speak to? Brad Haire Silver City, NM"
dochaire
Human Rights and the WoD
November Coalition
FAMM Foundation
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
F.E.A.R.
CANNABIS, FORGETTING, AND THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
MICHAEL POLLAN
I want to start by briefly explaining what I mean by the botany of desire, about my approach to plants and their relationship to people, and then get on to marijuana. Those who have the book, Botany of Desire, will recognize some of what I’m saying, at least at the start. But I then want to go a little bit deeper into what we’ve learned and what we’re learning about cannabis and the cannabinoid network and memory since the book has come out. We’re learning things actually almost every day about this very exciting area of brain science.
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting by Michael Pollan
“Why would we evolve a chemical that would make us forget, that would affect our short-term memory?” That seems maladaptive. His answer was one of the great “a-ha!” moments I had when I was working on this book. He said, “Well, do you really want to remember all the faces you saw in the subway this morning, all the faces in the supermarket?” And I realized at that moment, well, of course, forgetting is not a defect of a mental operation, although it can certainly be that; forgetting is a mental operation. It’s almost as important as remembering.
YouTube - Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire ...
Ganja Eases Traumatic Memories New Orleans...
Homeless Vets Already Overload Safety Net
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
The five-year study, by Beat Lutz of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, and his German and Italian colleagues, revealed a previously unknown component of that job -- snuffing out terrifying memories as part of the body's fear-coping mechanism. "Our work shows an involvement of the endogenous cannabinoid system in extinction of fear memory for the first time," Lutz told United Press International.
Natural High Extinguishes Bad Memories in Brain
'Natural' Cannabis Manages Memory
High Times for Alzheimers
"My basic hypothesis," he says, "is that Aß is taken up into neurons, where it is phophorylated [garlanded, like tau, with phosphorus and oxygen] and kills them. It's this toxic action that cannabinoids prevent." Milton discovered this by incubating human neurons in culture, and then poisoning them with Aß. When he added cannabinoids to the brew, Aß was apparently no longer toxic.
Dr Nathaniel Milton,
a biochemist at London's Royal Free
and University College medical school.
Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers
"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medical corps, in cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is introducing the use of THC, the active agent in the cannabis plant, which helps relieve post-traumatic stress disorders, on an experimental basis," an army statement said.
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
Natural molecules that act like the primary active ingredient in marijuana apparently play a key part in helping the brain wipe away fearful memories, perhaps averting undue anxiety and panic attacks, researchers report. The discovery, detailed in the British journal Nature, could lead to the development of psychiatric drugs for the treatment of such fear-based conditions as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, they said.
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Canada's University of Sasketchewan
Scientists Copy Pot To Combat Depression
"THC reduces anxiety by binding directly to receptors in the brain and resulting in its familiar high sensation. The reaction is too strong, creating marijuana's side effects,"
- Dr. Daniele Piomelli,
a pharmacology professor at the University of California at Irvine
January issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
8. CANNABIS LUNG CLEANER AND EXPECTORANT
9. SLEEP AND RELAXATION
Cannabis lowers blood pressure, dilates the arteries and reduces body temperature an average of one-half degree, thereby relieving stress. Evening cannabis smokers in general report more restful sleep.
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
"Not very long ago, emotion was thought to be the exclusive province of poets.... Now, a new science of emotion is discovering pathways in our brains that create powerful emotional memories. Normally these protect us against repeating harmful encounters and guide us to what's good. But science is just now beginning to understand how emotional memories can also become prisons when hijacked by anxiety or trauma."
- National Institute of Mental Health
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories By Faye Flam
Source: Seattle Times August 01, 2002
Tod H. Mikuriya M.D.
Israel: IDF To Treat Shell Shock With Cannabis August 05, 2004
The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. An army statement said the military medical corps and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem would begin treating victims of post-traumatic stress - commonly known as shell shock - with THC, the active ingredient in the cannabis plant. It said the treatment would begin on an experimental basis. "The use of THC as part of the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was approved by military and civilian committees relevant to the subject," the statement said.
Patients Out of Time
Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study
MAPS is pleased to announce that funding has been secured for the Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study. This research project will examine the overall health status of six of the eight surviving federally- supplied medical marijuana patients. These patients receive their medication in canisters containing 300 cigarettes of regulated and federally- grown medical marijuana on a regular basis, according to their FDA- approved protocols.
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access
Ganja 4 PTSD & Depression (DWRf site + -)
I strongly endorse the mission of Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access."
–Montel Williams
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access change.org
Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War
300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression
Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis 11/17/00
He says he smoked marijuana because of arthritis pain in a bum ankle and his left hand. For this offense, the 39-year-old who served his country in the United States Army is paying an incomprehensible price...
... In 1996 Foster was convicted of five drug counts in Tulsa, all revolving around the plants he was growing in an underground backyard shelter.
Foster says he had 38 marijuana plants. He said he was growing them to be harvested in rotation --each harvest to yield about 12 ounces.
Oklahoma prosecuters asserted that they had between 50 and 70 plants and that he meant to distribute. A Tulsa jury sentenced him to a little over a year per plant, 70 years for cultivation. It tacked on 20 years for possession in the presence of minors, his children. Foster asserts they never knew...
The Stoners Will Survive
"What will be done for the returning Afganistan and Iraq War veterans to ensure they receive the best quality health care and counselling services especially for PTSD, employment and housing?"
Concerned Vet, Chicago
"I'm so worried about all the veterans who are coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan with PTSD and not getting proper care of the VA. I want to help them transition back to society. Cannabis has proven to help with PTSD. It breaks my heart knowing they suffer because of the lies that sent us into Iraq."
- Herbalicious / Change.gov
The Blunt Truth: Combat Veterans, PTSD and Medical Marijuana
Marijuana Therapy for Veterans with PTSD
Marijuana, Battle Veterans and the VA
"I am a Vietnam Vet whose life has been devastated by PTSD. I applied for compensation 3years ago but the VA assumes an adverserial role and tells me I have to prove my stressors. The key people for me are probably dead by now. How is this fair?"
Vietnam Vet
"Our returning vets are not getting the care they deserve. Dr's are told not to diagnose PTSD b/c it's too expensive. What will you do to ensure these heros get EVERYTHING they deserve to return to a productive life after they've sacrificed so much?"
DrJay61, Arlington, TX
"What will the Obama administration do for those who are homeless and need mental treatment to fully be in a constructive society? PTSD, schizophrenia, depression, ect."
David, Boise, ID
"I have sent this information in the past but now will re-phrase as a question. What is being done to prepare for all of the military PTSD needs? I am a trauma specialist and VietNam veteran who is willing and available to help."
m2, dallas
Marty Chilcutt, 72 - Kalamazoo, Michigan
Navy veteran Martin Chilcutt served in air intelligence shortly after World War II, where his duties involved testing nuclear weapons. The radiation exposure left him extremely vulnerable to cancer, which he has suffered from — and survived — three times. He has been in remission for ten years, but there is always a chance that his cancer could return.
Traditional medications did little for Martin’s chemotherapy-induced pain and nausea, and some doctors at the Veterans Affairs hospital recommended medical marijuana. Martin was amazed at how effectively and quickly marijuana eased the intense pain and nausea he felt from chemotherapy. One of Martin’s friends, an epileptic veteran, took his doctor’s advice and tried medical marijuana to prevent seizures. Another veteran friend who developed multiple sclerosis used medical marijuana on his doctor’s recommendation to relieve neuropathic pain and muscle spasms.
"With increasing numbers of combat vets being diagnosed with PTSD and other medical conditions requiring long term care, what is your plan to ensure that they receive all care needed?"
OIF/OEF VET, northern Maine
"As a USMC veterans wife, I am concerned about our military coming back from wars with no real health care support from the VA, particularly mental heatlh care (PTSD). The VA is back-logged with 400,000 claims! What exactly will you do about this?"
Nikki N, American in Europe
"Will Obama support a call to Zionist Israel to stay within the boundaries first set after WWII? Jews were living all over the world and getting along until Fascism. People need treatment for PTSD, not the right to take somebody else's land."
mystiryuss, Hamilton, CA
"As a member of a successful PTSD support group for 10+ years. This makes up for 30+ years I have struggled to get attention. We do need better claim processing, be rid of indifferent employees and look at those who know the "ropes" about claims."
Pieter J, Las Vegas
"I have a story it goes back many years ago. I was married young 14, children 15 & 18. Raped and kept quiet. I have PTSD, I'm losing my home. I'm terriffied of my government. Please, pardon us, give amninsty please help us. Listen to my story."
Hopeless & Teriffied, Baltimore, MD
"VA requires that an illness be tied back to something that started back while they were in the war in order to be considered disabled. What about disabilities that did not show up until later in life, such as adult asthma, ptsd, and depression?"
Douglas Gibson Jr, Fairfax, VA
"What steps will the Obama administration take to insure that all veterans, including those in the National Guard and the Reserves, have access to quality health care? What is being done to improve treatment for PTSD and other mental health issues?"
Elsbeth, Salem, Oreegon
"Returning veterans are experiencing mental health issues, including PTSD, at startling rates. What will be done to screen and provide followup to 1.8 million new veterans? These vets have earned top-notch care but the current system is failing them."
Kathy, Mishawaka, IN
"how about some respect for GI janes who suffers from ptsd mst . Have the VA change the sop their care. Don't have them wear only scrubs with a johnnie gown ,then place them in the same area as the men."
LadyVeteran, Westchester, NY
"I was five months pregnant when I was forceably shoved against a wall by a state policeman and I suffer from PTSD from the emotional trauma. PLEASE you MUST change the process of who/how police officers are selected so this may never happen again!"
Sabrina, Rhode Island
Recovering Our Honor
Drug War Issues for Law Enforcement
Editor: Jim Rosenfield
Recovering Our Honour
Why Policing Must Reject the "War on Drugs"
"How do you expect to field a superior Armed Forces if the government continues to cheat the veterans out of their benefits? It's time to bring home the POWs, treat PTSD, Gulf War Illness, & Agent Orange exposure, & provide for the homeless veterans."
Buffalo Britt, Skidmore, MO
"Will Pres.Obama put significant money into mental health clinics for vets in rural communities? They have borne the brunt of war more than any of us, yet they have no resources to grapple with all the suicides and PTSD cases."
Babs, Arlington VA
"I have an incredibly successful, drug free treatment for PTSD. How can i get the govt to offer this to returning vets? Who do i speak to? Brad Haire Silver City, NM"
dochaire
Human Rights and the WoD
November Coalition
FAMM Foundation
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
F.E.A.R.
CANNABIS, FORGETTING, AND THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
MICHAEL POLLAN
I want to start by briefly explaining what I mean by the botany of desire, about my approach to plants and their relationship to people, and then get on to marijuana. Those who have the book, Botany of Desire, will recognize some of what I’m saying, at least at the start. But I then want to go a little bit deeper into what we’ve learned and what we’re learning about cannabis and the cannabinoid network and memory since the book has come out. We’re learning things actually almost every day about this very exciting area of brain science.
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting by Michael Pollan
“Why would we evolve a chemical that would make us forget, that would affect our short-term memory?” That seems maladaptive. His answer was one of the great “a-ha!” moments I had when I was working on this book. He said, “Well, do you really want to remember all the faces you saw in the subway this morning, all the faces in the supermarket?” And I realized at that moment, well, of course, forgetting is not a defect of a mental operation, although it can certainly be that; forgetting is a mental operation. It’s almost as important as remembering.
YouTube - Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire ...
Ganja Eases Traumatic Memories New Orleans...
Homeless Vets Already Overload Safety Net
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
The five-year study, by Beat Lutz of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, and his German and Italian colleagues, revealed a previously unknown component of that job -- snuffing out terrifying memories as part of the body's fear-coping mechanism. "Our work shows an involvement of the endogenous cannabinoid system in extinction of fear memory for the first time," Lutz told United Press International.
Natural High Extinguishes Bad Memories in Brain
'Natural' Cannabis Manages Memory
High Times for Alzheimers
"My basic hypothesis," he says, "is that Aß is taken up into neurons, where it is phophorylated [garlanded, like tau, with phosphorus and oxygen] and kills them. It's this toxic action that cannabinoids prevent." Milton discovered this by incubating human neurons in culture, and then poisoning them with Aß. When he added cannabinoids to the brew, Aß was apparently no longer toxic.
Dr Nathaniel Milton,
a biochemist at London's Royal Free
and University College medical school.
Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers
"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medical corps, in cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is introducing the use of THC, the active agent in the cannabis plant, which helps relieve post-traumatic stress disorders, on an experimental basis," an army statement said.
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
Natural molecules that act like the primary active ingredient in marijuana apparently play a key part in helping the brain wipe away fearful memories, perhaps averting undue anxiety and panic attacks, researchers report. The discovery, detailed in the British journal Nature, could lead to the development of psychiatric drugs for the treatment of such fear-based conditions as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, they said.
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Canada's University of Sasketchewan
Scientists Copy Pot To Combat Depression
"THC reduces anxiety by binding directly to receptors in the brain and resulting in its familiar high sensation. The reaction is too strong, creating marijuana's side effects,"
- Dr. Daniele Piomelli,
a pharmacology professor at the University of California at Irvine
January issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
8. CANNABIS LUNG CLEANER AND EXPECTORANT
9. SLEEP AND RELAXATION
Cannabis lowers blood pressure, dilates the arteries and reduces body temperature an average of one-half degree, thereby relieving stress. Evening cannabis smokers in general report more restful sleep.
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
"Not very long ago, emotion was thought to be the exclusive province of poets.... Now, a new science of emotion is discovering pathways in our brains that create powerful emotional memories. Normally these protect us against repeating harmful encounters and guide us to what's good. But science is just now beginning to understand how emotional memories can also become prisons when hijacked by anxiety or trauma."
- National Institute of Mental Health
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories By Faye Flam
Source: Seattle Times August 01, 2002
Tod H. Mikuriya M.D.
Israel: IDF To Treat Shell Shock With Cannabis August 05, 2004
The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. An army statement said the military medical corps and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem would begin treating victims of post-traumatic stress - commonly known as shell shock - with THC, the active ingredient in the cannabis plant. It said the treatment would begin on an experimental basis. "The use of THC as part of the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was approved by military and civilian committees relevant to the subject," the statement said.
Patients Out of Time
Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study
MAPS is pleased to announce that funding has been secured for the Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study. This research project will examine the overall health status of six of the eight surviving federally- supplied medical marijuana patients. These patients receive their medication in canisters containing 300 cigarettes of regulated and federally- grown medical marijuana on a regular basis, according to their FDA- approved protocols.
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access
Ganja 4 PTSD & Depression (DWRf site + -)
