Despite evidence that medical marijuana can be beneficial to those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the White House wants to make one thing clear: You can go fight multiple tours for this country in useless wars, but if the horrors of war mess with your head, you’re not allowed to smoke weed when you get home.
Responding to a petition by former Air Force sergeant Mike Krawitz asking the White House to consider medical marijuana as a treatment for PTSD, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske said no. Saying marijuana is not a “benign drug,” Kerlikowske asserted that it does not meet standards of safe or effective medicine.
Beyond the fallacy of this so-called data The White House has is the fact that Barack Obama cares more about his campaign money from Big Pharma than the men and women who risk their lives for this country. Marijuana is too dangerous for our troops, but multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting wars Obama claimed he was going to end is par for the course.
Article source: http://www.disinfo.com/2012/07/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-for-soldiers-ptsd-treatment/
