Cannabis could ease symptoms of depression and suicidal thoughts in PTSD patients

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'We're only just beginning to understand what the therapeutic potential of cannabis may be for a variety of health conditions,' an author of the study said.

is in the past year, versus 11.2 percent of participants without the condition.

People with PTSD were more likely to have experienced depression and thought about taking their lives, known as suicide ideation, if they didn't use cannabis, the research found. People with PTSD who didn't use cannabis were around seven times more likely to have had depression, and 4.7 times more likely to think about suicide, compared to people who didn't have PTSD or use the drug.

 

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IF YOU NEED TO USE MARIJUANA ,EAT IT AND NOT SMOKE IT, AND THAT'S GOD'S WAY. SO EAT IT LIKE YOU EAT LETTUCE, TODAY YOU HAVE A PLENTY OF IT AND YOU COULD GROW A LOT MORE, IT IS NOT LIKE IN THE PAST,SO STOP SMOKING IT AND START EATING IT FRESH, IT'S BETTER FOR YOUR HEALTH.THINK.🧐

Yes, it DOES but we Vets have to pay for our own. VA screws us is more ways than I can count.

It helps escape from trump too

Should read: “cannabis eases symptoms...”. Cuz it does.

Duh

Berniesanders Can we fire all uh, Psycho coo coo pros? To cut health care cost ? PSYCO coo coos can just go to church on cue TheWord

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How is it possible to have so many PTSD sufferers in this country? And the 'service dog' industry needs some oversight.

'Whoever turns away from My remembrance, then he will have a narrow, depressed life..' (Quran 20:124) And He says: 'Whoever does good and he is a believer, I will give him a good, pure life..' (Quran 16:97) Meaning of life:

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But not if they are treated at the VA; doctors there are forbidden from recommending it as a therapeutic option. Our government needs to get over this anti-cannabis mentality.

And it could also trigger psychosis in people who have a predisposition to that.

I find sativas to be pretty uplifting.

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‘maybe by numbing us down, making us stupid. ALSO fastest way to wake up pants down not remembering anything.

A few members of Ernest Hemmingway's family could have used this.

Marijuana can help?! Is water wet?!

PirateWench_RP Did they purposefully select a sample size of 420 patients? 🤣

PTSD is effectively treated with Mindfulness, antidepressants and antianxiety medications. Cannabis is not needed for PTSD.

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