{"id":666910,"date":"2010-02-17T01:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T06:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22447"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:40:48","slug":"survey-finds-many-veterans-use-marijuana-for-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666910","title":{"rendered":"Survey Finds Many Veterans Use Marijuana For PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2010\/02\/16\/ptsd-1070-lg%20crop.jpg?resize=237%2C223\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"223\" width=\"237\" \/>Steve Elliott writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2010\/02\/survey_many_veterans_others_use_cannabis_for_ptsd.php#more\">Toke of the Town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many veterans and others are using cannabis medically to treat the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to preliminary results of a new survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cannabisscience.com\">Cannabis Science Inc.<\/a>, which describes itself as &#8220;an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company,&#8221; is reviewing the interim results of its survey of more than 1,400 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that many veterans are already using herbal cannabis to self-medicate to relieve the symptoms of PTSD,&#8221; said Dr. Robert Melamede, president and CEO of Cannabis Science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequently, there is a clear need for standardized, FDA approved, oral cannabis products which can, and should be, provided to veterans and others who can benefit from its use,&#8221; Melamede said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Elliott writes in Toke of the Town: Many veterans and others are using cannabis medically to treat the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to preliminary results of a new survey. Cannabis Science Inc., which describes itself as &#8220;an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company,&#8221; is reviewing the interim results of its survey of more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NuC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768056,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666910\/revisions\/768056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}