What A Military Psychologist Forgot to Say About Cannabis

By Jeremy Daw

Combat veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress are hardly doing anyone harm by choosing a less toxic, safer alternative to alcohol to help soothe the stress of readjusting to civilian life, but never mind: clinical psychologist and Iraq veteran Bret A. Moore wants our vets to continue to just say no to using cannabis to treat PTSD.

To be fair to Dr. Moore, who has clinical experience treating veterans with PTS, he says he is “acutely aware of the limitations of our current treatments for veterans” and would “welcome any new means for relieving the distress associated with combat trauma, however unlikely they may seem.” To be even fairer, he doesn’t advocate depriving our veterans of potentially therapeutic treatments out of mere spite; instead, he bases his conclusion on the rational if somewhat heartless contention that

“the benefit of marijuana use is

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