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News Dea Finally Approves Study On Cannabis And Ptsd

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One of the first federally approved studies on the effects of cannabis on veterans with PTSD received final approval from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration earlier this week. The DEA’s approval means the research, which has been stalled for five years, can finally move forward. “We could start working with study candidates as early as June,” researcher Sue Sisley told Leafly on Thursday.

Sisley, a psychiatrist and former clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, has been fighting to carry out the study since 2011, when it was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Since then, Sisley and colleagues have been struggling to overcome the federal roadblocks that prevent most cannabis research. In 2014, the University of Arizona terminated her contract after conservative state politicians raised objections over the use of cannabis in the study.

It’s not as easy as you might think. Participants will need to be veterans diagnosed with PTSD who have found their condition resistant to conventional treatments. They don’t need to be current medical marijuana patients, but those who are will have to abstain for a period of weeks prior to the study, in order to validate the results. “We’ll need to randomize the participants,” Sisley explained, which means half will receive cannabis and half will receive a placebo. “For those who are relying on medical marijuana to currently treat their PTSD, receiving a placebo could be challenging.”


https://www.leafly.com/news/headlines/dea-finally-approves-study-on-cannabis-and-ptsd
 
Our State goes back up soon but it needs to be approved federally and if it is, veterans are a wonderful place to start as we are so far behind the ball of having our vets under treatment, such a high number of documentries ive seen of vets in recent years coming back but not being treated for mental issues and become addicts as self treatment and thats embarrasing to see, that we cant treat the men and women that make it possible to remain safe and ok and that sacrifice so much!

Hopefully eventually it will be approved PTSD in general but if we can just federally approved for our vets, just that is leaning more towards improvement in my opinion.
 
Federal research is a good first step, for sure... and hopefully they define a truer efficacy for marijuana from such studies. They know there are lots using it, but the longevity effects are well established and known for long use marijuana users, and they aren't good. So robbing Peter to pay Paul is not necessarily good for the PTSD sufferer. You feel better now, to have major health complications later, if not dead much earlier than you should, all due to marijuana use.

If a modified, synthetic version that has removed all the nasties, yet still provide the spacial relief from PTSD itself, then all for its use.

Hopefully these full studies can outline risks vs rewards.
 
If a modified, synthetic version that has removed all the nasties, yet still provide the spacial relief from PTSD itself

Thats what i was thinking too. Not just a marijuana cookie but why not a THC pill? Or like i quite smoking cigs on, a nicotine vaporizer, why not a THC vaporizer as there's no smoke or CO2 of any of the other 101 chemicals? Synthetic marijuana seems to be a bad thing. The gas station a block away was selling it (illegally obviously) and my neighbor smoked it and you'd think he just dropped acid. So unsure of synthetic stuff but there has to be a healthier way than breathing in smoke. God do I miss it it though! ;)

A study is going down the right road for sure!
 
Not just a marijuana cookie but why not a THC pill?
There is a synthetic THC pill; there is also an organic THC nasal spray (not approved in the US). The likelihood is that PTSD sufferers need CBD much more than THC. The isolated organic CBD med is in the super-slow FDA approval process.

It's nice to see this study finally get off the ground. The requisition process alone, to have 'federally approved' cannabis to work with, was apparently a nightmare. Although I wonder, with the speed of the research being done in the UK, whether the US will be able to keep up in any meaningful way. We are still on 'oh look, marijuana does things' - they are on 'let's isolate all the cannabidiols so they can be delivered with precision and consistent standards'.

But - however we get there, we get there.
 
'oh look, marijuana does things'

:roflmao:

There is a synthetic THC pill; there is also an organic THC nasal spray (not approved in the US). The likelihood is that PTSD sufferers need CBD much more than THC. The isolated organic CBD med is in the super-slow FDA approval process.

Thats awesome to hear this! I havent researched this in a few yrs.

But - however we get there, we get there.

Agreed!
 
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