The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment isn’t known as the biggest booster of medical marijuana. Nonetheless, the CDPHE has been tasked by the state legislature with overseeing $10 million worth of grants intended to fund “objective scientific research regarding the efficacy of marijuana and its component parts as part of medical treatment.”
Westword’s Marijuana archive features articles aplenty about the CDPHE’s lack of enthusiasm about MMJ. Take this 2010 piece in which the department actively lobbied against a bill that would have listed post-traumatic stress disorder among the conditions approved for cannabis treatment. And then there was the department’s 2011-2012 rejection of 4,200 patient applications because individuals had allegedly been seen by physician assistants as opposed to the doctors who employed them.
But now they want to know how well medical cannabis works. Want to take part? Head over to the Latest Word for more.