Articles tagged with "ptsd"

Cannabis can be life-changing for people with PTSD, but depending on where you live, access to the plant can be complicated.

The long-limited Texas medical cannabis system is poised to finally open its doors to more patients.

By cruelly denying military veterans access to medical cannabis, President Trump reveals himself as an old-school drug warrior.

Take a look at the science behind how cannabis can help heal the trauma associated with sexual violence, and hear the stories of survivors who’ve incorporated it into their healing process.

By Maggie S.   hen everything got really bad, Mom thought it would help.  I was, of course, hesitant since I didn’t really have a decent track record with anything beyond, say, Tylenol. But Mom decided that we would try it together.  She, at 62, and I, at 35, would have some cannabis together in […]

By Reg Doty   fter two tours partaking in the great “Asian vacation” I was looking forward to starting my life over as an expatriate in a place far away from the insanity that hijacked my dreams and left my spirit weary—a place where I might find my way to moral redemption. Fate intervened, though. I […]

By L.J.     n the late 90’s I bought a ragged old 1987 Toyota pickup truck to drive around base and get me in to town. This was when I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert. At one time this base was considered a remote location, and the military gave […]

By J. Brad Wilke   s a non-combat veteran of the U.S. Army, I’ve never had the need to use cannabis to alleviate or minimize the effects of PTSD. My cannabis use has always been purely recreational and didn’t begin until well after I transitioned out of the service. My military experience was more Robert […]

By Sam Arrington   his doesn’t kill kids. It kills adults, but not kids.” Early on a doctor had told him that. Now he just repeated it whenever the silence took him to some place he didn’t want to be. A small girl was sleeping on the bed in front of him. Her frame was […]

While federal research is underway, one community provides a safe space for people to share their stories and heal using cannabis.