Iraq Vet With PTSD: Cannabis Saved My Marriage

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Chris Whittenburg video thumbnail-longIraq combat veteran Chris Whittenburg credits cannabis with saving his marriage and ending the PTSD-spawned anger and anxiety that were destroying his life.

Without cannabis, “I don’t think I’d be married now,” Whittenburg said during a recent interview. “My marriage would have fallen apart due to the severe anger and anxiety.”

An estimated 250,000 combat veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan suffer with PTSD. And, according to the Veterans Administration, 22 of them commit suicide every day. That’s more than 8,000 suicides a year. And it’s more deaths from suicide per year than the 6,850 Americans who have died in combat over the 14 years since 9-11.

Chris Whittenburg video thumbnail-short“We knew I had PTSD,”  Whittenburg said. “My family, they were starting to see me not in a

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