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The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) has accepted a petition to add PTSD as a debilitating condition under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA). ADHS will hold a public hearing to accept oral comments on Oct. 29 from 10-11 a.m. at 250 N. 17th Ave. in Phoenix.
The ADHS informational page for the public hearing is Arizona Medical Marijuana Program | Adding Debilitating Medical Conditions - Home. Members of the public who cannot attend the live hearing can submit comments to ADHS via PTSD Survey.
The Greene Consulting Group, a team of 2013 graduates of the University of Arizona College of Law, prepared the petition in conjunction with the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association (AZCNA). According to AZCNA's President Heather Manus, a registered nurse: "The benefits of treating PTSD with medical cannabis are well founded. As a practicing psych nurse in New Mexico, we successfully treated our returning war heroes and veterans with this natural herbal medicine. Oregon and Maine recently added PTSD to their list of qualified debilitating medical conditions, and New Mexico recently ratified the continuation of PTSD as (a) qualifying condition."
A 2012 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) report stated that 239,174 veterans were coded with PTSD on Veterans Health Administration rosters. In 2013, a VA study found a 20 percent increase in veteran suicides since 2007, with 22 veterans committing suicide each day. Current pharmaceutical cocktails are often ineffective and riddled with side effects; this petition provides the evidential support for marijuana's efficacy in treating PTSD's horrid host of symptoms.
For the veterans who are inflicted by PTSD as a result of their fight for our freedoms, the petitioners hope that ADHS will recommend listing PTSD under the AMMA and grant those veterans the freedom to choose an effective treatment for PTSD.
Ultimately, the petitioners hope to ensure that the many Arizonan sufferers of PTSD have full access to practitioner-prescribed treatments for their condition.
As Manus points out: "Our Arizona veterans and other Arizona residents afflicted with PTSD deserve nothing less."
The petition received unanimous support from the Arizona Dispensary Association and is cosponsored by The Green Halo, a Tucson dispensary and the first licensed medical marijuana edibles and infusion kitchen in the state of Arizona, known as the Heavenly Harvest. Manus also serves as the executive director of the Heavenly Harvest.
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Source: wmicentral.com
Author: wmicentral.com
Contact: White Mountain Independent: Contact
Website: ADHS accepts petitions to add PTSD under Med Marijuana Act - White Mountain Independent: Latest News
The ADHS informational page for the public hearing is Arizona Medical Marijuana Program | Adding Debilitating Medical Conditions - Home. Members of the public who cannot attend the live hearing can submit comments to ADHS via PTSD Survey.
The Greene Consulting Group, a team of 2013 graduates of the University of Arizona College of Law, prepared the petition in conjunction with the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association (AZCNA). According to AZCNA's President Heather Manus, a registered nurse: "The benefits of treating PTSD with medical cannabis are well founded. As a practicing psych nurse in New Mexico, we successfully treated our returning war heroes and veterans with this natural herbal medicine. Oregon and Maine recently added PTSD to their list of qualified debilitating medical conditions, and New Mexico recently ratified the continuation of PTSD as (a) qualifying condition."
A 2012 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) report stated that 239,174 veterans were coded with PTSD on Veterans Health Administration rosters. In 2013, a VA study found a 20 percent increase in veteran suicides since 2007, with 22 veterans committing suicide each day. Current pharmaceutical cocktails are often ineffective and riddled with side effects; this petition provides the evidential support for marijuana's efficacy in treating PTSD's horrid host of symptoms.
For the veterans who are inflicted by PTSD as a result of their fight for our freedoms, the petitioners hope that ADHS will recommend listing PTSD under the AMMA and grant those veterans the freedom to choose an effective treatment for PTSD.
Ultimately, the petitioners hope to ensure that the many Arizonan sufferers of PTSD have full access to practitioner-prescribed treatments for their condition.
As Manus points out: "Our Arizona veterans and other Arizona residents afflicted with PTSD deserve nothing less."
The petition received unanimous support from the Arizona Dispensary Association and is cosponsored by The Green Halo, a Tucson dispensary and the first licensed medical marijuana edibles and infusion kitchen in the state of Arizona, known as the Heavenly Harvest. Manus also serves as the executive director of the Heavenly Harvest.
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: wmicentral.com
Author: wmicentral.com
Contact: White Mountain Independent: Contact
Website: ADHS accepts petitions to add PTSD under Med Marijuana Act - White Mountain Independent: Latest News
