New Study: Cannabis Use Can Treat Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A new study published last month in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs has found that cannabis use can greatly decrease the negative impacts of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
For the study, researchers used the Clinician Administered Posttraumatic Scale to determine symptom scores of 80 individuals with PTSD before and after they began using cannabis. According to the data garnered from the study, cannabis was found to reduce a person’s symptom score by an average of 75%.
“Cannabis is associated with reductions in PTSD symptoms in some patients, and prospective, placebo-controlled study is needed to determine efficacy of cannabis and its constituents in treating PTSD”, says Dr. George Greer, one of the study’s researchers.
A study released last November by the journal Neurology of Learning and Memory came to a similar conclusion, finding that PTSD may be treated by THC, the primary compound found in cannabis.
– TheJointBlog
Janet Evans
Cannabis helps people sleep with no harmful side affects. Can the pill poppers defend their product like that? I have seen it take weeks for other meds and if they don’t work the atient is left with a landslide of side affects. Come on health care professionals. Get with the new data.