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Can Marijuana Legalization Save The Lives Of Police Officers?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 12, 2012 Culture, Medical

Worth Repeating

By Ron Marczyk, RN

Toke of the Town Columnist

“Nationally, twice as many cops – about 300 annually – commit suicide as are killed in the line of duty, according to a study by the National Association of Police Chiefs”

Alcoholism and suicide kill more police officers than on the job violence!

Could substituting marijuana for alcohol use greatly decrease rates of burnout, alcoholism, suicide, depression and divorce, domestic violence and PTSD among the nation’s police officers? Police have on average life expectancies 10 years less than the average person; they also kill themselves at higher rates than the average American.

Marijuana is an exit drug for alcohol abuse and is also “an anti-suicide medicine.”

So why not allow police officers to use the safest recreational drug known to science?

Worth Repeating: Medical Cannabis May Treat PTSD

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 24, 2011 Medical

Graphic: Four Twenty Studios

Welcome to Room 420, where your instructor is Mr. Ron Marczyk and your subjects are wellness, disease prevention, self actualization, and chillin’.

Worth Repeating

By Ron Marczyk, R.N.

Health Education Teacher (Retired)

An Israeli study finds that the cannabinoids in cannabis provide relief from anxiety due to stress. This study suggests that a treatment to heal a hyper-alert “fear memory” in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients may exist.

Medical cannabis may also enhance PTSD behavior therapy treatments as an anti-anxiety agent that resets a damaged amygdala and may act as a superior psychiatric medicine to present-day antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs.

Can Ecstasy Ease Post-Traumatic Stress?

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on July 20, 2010 Medical, News

Graphic: Tribe.net

MDMA, better known by its street name, Ecstasy, is illegal but a new study suggests that it is also a promising treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The study, published in the Journal of Pscyhopharmacology, included 20 patients with PTSD from traumas such as sexual assault and combat stress, reports Amanda Gardner at CNN.

On two separate occasions, 12 of the people took MDMA and then spoke for several hours with a pair of trained therapists. The others took a placebo but received the same therapy. All of the participants got additional therapy sessions that did not involve the drug.

Ten of the 12 people who took MDMA had, two months later, improved so much they no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Three of the participants whose condition had prevented them from keeping a job were even able to return to work.

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