American Legion Urges Congress To Reschedule Marijuana
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The American Legion, one of the biggest and most well-known of all veterans organizations, passed a resolution at its annual convention urging the federal government to stop classifying marijuana as a schedule one drug.
The organization also asked the Drug Enforcement Agency to license privately-owned medical marijuana dispensaries so that cannabis can be safely and effectively researched.
The American Legion, which has over 2 million members nationwide, was founded in 1919 by veterans of the first World War.
The resolution deals in large part with the medicinal use of marijuana, especially regarding post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans.
The full text of the resolution can be found here.
Marijuana Resolution Proposes Re-Classification For Research Purposes
It begins by describing some of the symptoms and causes of PTSD and TBI:
Over the past several years, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been thrust into the forefront of the consciousness of the medical community and the general public in large part due to recent combat operations and subsequent recognition of these potentially ‘silent injuries”… Our foundation of knowledge guiding current diagnostics and interventions of PTSDand TBI has gained through decades of study in the academic medical world.
Marijuana is classified as schedule I drugs and drugs such as cocaine,methamphetamine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin are classified as schedule II drugs
In April 2016, the Drug Enforcement Agency gave its approval to a study on the effect of medical marijuana on post-traumatic stress disorder, the first randomized, controlled research inthe U.S for PTSD that will use the actual plant instead of oils or synthesized cannabis…