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VA Rejects Cannabis Research as Veterans Plead for Medical Pot

By Natalie Fertig — 2021

The VA continues to deny cannabis recommendations to veterans in 36 states that allow medical marijuana.

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What Are the Health Benefits and Risks of Marijuana?

Cannabis — also referred to as marijuana — is a psychoactive drug that many people use for recreational purposes and its purported medicinal benefits. But what does recent research say about it? Do the risks trump the benefits?

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Robby Berman
2021
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Experimental Treatments Changed the Course of the AIDS Epidemic; We Need the Same Approach to Mental Illness Today | Commentary

Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.

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Monnica Williams, Morgan Campbell
2021
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Study Finds Ketamine Can Help Patients Manage Depression and PTSD

Through this treatment plan, the patient was able to “reconceptualize her trauma” and “was able to move through difficult memories and emotions rather than letting them consume her,” explained U of O associate professor, Monnica Williams.

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Hannah Sabourin
2021
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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Two Men Share Their Experience with Treatment for PTSD

This is a story about two very different men, their fight with post-traumatic stress disorder, and their coping options.

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Lewis Turner
2021
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