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Illinois Moves to Allow Veterans Easier Access to Medical Marijuana

October 22nd

SPRINGFIELD, IL — Military veterans seeking medical marijuana in Illinois may have an easier time accessing the medicine under legislation pending in the Illinois House. An amendment to Senate Bill 1955, legislation to allow online lottery sales in the state, was filed by Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie), sponsor of successful legislation which created the medical […]

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Arizona to Consider Adding PTSD to Medical Marijuana Quallifications

October 21st

PHOENIX, AZ — The Arizona Department of Health Services has scheduled a public hearing on a petition to add post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of qualifying conditions for under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. A public hearing on the petition filed by the Greene Consulting Group in conjunction with the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association will […]

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New Mexico Corrections Officer Fired for Medicating Legally with Cannabis

July 20th

As it has with thousands of PTSD patients nationwide, cannabis gave 32-year-old Augustine Stanley his life back. Already a decorated veteran, already the youngest Lieutenant at New Mexico’s Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, he could survive IEDs in Iraq and prison gang member sequestration cells in Albuquerque. But it looks iffy whether his promising, unblemished career will survive a urine test.

Stanley led the team of corrections officers that handles the highest risk inmates in the Albuquerque area – not just violent criminals, but people at risk to themselves. “I was interviewing for promotion to Captain,” he told me. “I don’t even have a disciplinary file. Then last September I failed a urine test.”

This is, sadly and temporarily, not a unique case of what happens in the final days of cannabis prohibition when a patient who works in a “drug”-tested position and his family choose his well-being over even his livelihood and obligation to support, in Stanley’s case, his four kids. And when you talk to this local boy, he makes no bones about one truth: cannabis was and is a life-or-death necessity for him. Otherwise he would never have threatened a career that had logged 13 years toward a lucrative 20-year retirement plan.

In a steady, non-emotional voice, Stanley told me, “The Xanax (alprazolam anti-anxiety pharmaceutical) I was prescribed (after a traumatic tour in Iraq in 2005) just deepened my depression. I was. . . . . READ MORE

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Freedom to Choose: New Mexico Veterans Push for Improved Access to Medical Marijuana

July 9th

SANTA FE, NM — The Drug Policy Alliance, veterans’ groups, elected officials and others are introducing a campaign to protect New Mexico’s military veterans’ legal access to medical marijuana. The Campaign is asking New Mexico to stand with veterans and their families to ask our state lawmakers, employers, and medical professionals to support efforts to ensure that when veterans come home they will have access to the medicine that works for them.

New Mexico’s medical marijuana program is considered a nationwide model – in 2007 New Mexico became the first state to develop and implement a state-licensed medical marijuana production and distribution system, and in 2009 it became the first medical marijuana state to specifically include post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition.

“This campaign has national implications, as hundreds of thousands of veterans return home from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD,” said Jessica Gelay of the Drug Policy Alliance. “We hope that this campaign will encourage other states to ensure that their veterans receive the best care possible.”

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