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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Colorado moving toward making PTSD eligible for medical pot 🌿Colorado moving toward making PTSD eligible for medical pot
DENVER (AP) — Colorado may add post-traumatic stress disorder as a condition to be treated with medical marijuana — a dramatic turnaround after years of rejecting appeals to make PTSD the first ailment added to the state's medical pot program since it was approved by voters in 2000.
The addition of PTSD would be the first mental-health disorder for which Colorado doctors could recommend pot.
Colorado's chief medical officer, Dr. Larry Wolk, will forward the addition to the full Board of Health for approval this fall. The addition would be a dramatic turnaround for an agency that has rejected PTSD at least three times for inclusion on the marijuana registry.
The change comes after Colorado assembled a panel of doctors and medical marijuana advocates to review studies about the drug's medical potential. The new Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council made the recommendation Friday.
"It's momentous," said Brian Vicente, a longtime...
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