For the first time ever, I am ashamed of one of my alma maters. The University of Arizona has FIRED a researcher in order to prevent a study to find out if marijuana is effective in treating post traumatic stress in VETERANS.
PTSD does not just destroy the life of the veteran who cannot control his/her symptoms. Uncontrolled PTSD also destroys the veteran's family. Anecdotal evidence from the 70's is an indication that marijuana may be very helpful for PTSD. But anecdotal evidence is not scientific proof.
The fired researcher had gotten federal funding to study the effects of marijuana on PTSD. Her proposal must have been both brilliant and scientifically rigorous for the FEDS to give a WOMAN funding to research a medical use of marijuana.
Rumors are that prohibitionists in the Arizona State Legislature demanded that she be fired.
This is because if marijuana is scientifically proven to have medical value, marijuana can not stay a schedule 1 drug. Of course, the FDA has ignored all of the hitherto accumulated evidence of marijuana's medical value.
Again, propaganda wins over science. And at MY alma mater!
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