Colorado rejects medical marijuana for PTSD treatment

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:42am EDT

Colorado rejects medical marijuana for PTSD treatment

DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN

Colorado health officials on Wednesday rejected a bid by medical marijuana advocates to put cannabis on a list of approved treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, an agency spokesman said.

While Colorado has allowed the use of medical marijuana to treat various ailments since 2001, the state's health board has three times refused to put PTSD on its approved list. A similar proposal failed in the state legislature last year.

The spokesman, Mark Salley, said the Colorado Board of Health voted 6-2 to reject a petition for PTSD to be included as a "debilitating condition" that can be treated with medical pot.

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Nine states allow physicians to recommend medical marijuana for PTSD patients.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/16/us-usa-colorado-marijuana-idUSKCN0PQ0CC20150716

[jomin41]

1. Big mistake

How come only people who know nothing about cannabis get to make the decisions?

[yeoman6987]

2. I thought it was all legal in Colorado.

I have to be missing something. Can't they just go into a store and buy it?

[fizzgig]

3. rec prices are higher than mmj prices

and mmj patients can possess twice as much as the rec law allows.

[mountain grammy]

4. +1000