Despite increasing legal access to medical and recreational cannabis in states across the U.S., veterans face unfair treatment and stigmatization because the U.S. Department of.
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Veterans push for research, access to medical cannabis
Veterans push for research, access to medical cannabis
Focus on PTSD in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic adds urgency to calls for research into cannabis treatments for veterans
Rebekah F Ward
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ALBANY Glenda Tyson, a retired captain and New York Air National Guard nurse, didn’t go far from the military after her active duty was done. She took a nursing job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, treating other former service members.
Then, eight years ago, Tyson became a patient herself. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, she tried many treatments to slow the progress of the autoimmune disease attacking her central nervous system, and said her body “could not tolerate” the slew of drugs. That’s when she learned that her best friend’s mother, who also has MS, used cannabis to control her symptoms.
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Marijuana legalization has achieved such enormous strides, many people are starting to take access to weed for granted. The historical context of the War on Drugs is being forgotten.
The lifting of restrictions against cannabis remains a social, political and economic revolution and as such, the “green rush” still represents the investment opportunity of a lifetime.
For a quick refresher course in marijuana history, I bring you Henry J. Anslinger.
Anslinger served as the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the presidencies of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. The bureau was the precursor of the modern-day Drug Enforcement Administration. Anslinger played the key role in the introduction and passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which outlawed possessing or selling pot. Anslinger once told the nation: