Multiple veterans groups advised congressional lawmakers about the need to continue exploring psychedelics and marijuana as alternative treatment options for the military veteran population at recent hearings on Capitol Hill. And one veterans advocate cited his experience attending President Donald Trump’s Oval Office signing event for a cannabis rescheduling order as an example of progress in the fight for such alternatives.At a series of joint hearings before the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees last month and this week, representatives of veterans service organizations (VSOs) testified about the need to promote innovative approaches in mental health treatment, in part to help mitigate the suicide crisis that’s disproportionately impacted those who’ve served.Dan Wiley, national commander of the American Legion, said on Wednesday that the organization’s “number one priority” is “ending veteran suicide,” which involves finding alternatives to conventional therapies because “pills and therapy have objectively not worked.”“We need stronger transition programs, innovative therapies and improved safeguards to medication management,” he said, while going out of his way to add that, after a decade with the American Legion, “I was proud to be in the Oval Office as the president signed an executive order that reclassified cannabis as a Schedule III drug.”“This allows for federal research on how it can reduce drivers of suicide,” he said. “Now the American Legion does not support use of illegal drugs, but we strongly support research that could result in new, effective treatments.”“It’s no secret that, for far too long, doctors have prescribed opioids, which are destructive and addictive to our veterans—and the American Legion, by resolution, supports alternative therapies,” Wiley said later in the hearing.>https://www.marijuanamoment.net/veterans-groups-urge-congress-to-expand-psychedelics-and-marijuana-access-to-mitigate-suicide-crisis/
>>530083680>for far too long, doctors have prescribed opioids, which are destructive and addictive to our veteranstrue. it is shameful for the united states to be so ready to send their defence forces to die without also comitting to care for them whenever they need it.I support troops because they love their fellow people and want to look after them. they help in disasters and protect us. it's wrong that they would be used by a foreign power so blatantly.
Will the VA pay for my weed?
>>530084013get a job sucker
>>530084099I have a jobBut if the VA paid for my weed, I'd get free weed
>>530083680>begging for goynipWeak men should never be soldiers.
>>530084013Mine did. DESU It did more harm than help. I had a script for 3 grams/day.>>530083680What I dont like is instead of looking at the systemic issues as to WHY Veterans kill themselves (family court, lack of jobs/recognition of military qualifications by employers, mental health stigma vs veterans, male loneliness epidemic, hoeflation, etc etc). Instead of solving this issues "heres your free weed bro fuck off".
If weed is good for your mental health how come so many of the stoner kids I went to school with developed psychotic disorders? Literally 10-20% of them have schizophrenia or bipolar 1 and a couple have killed themselves.
>>530084885Thats the theory im working on. I dont think this is being legalized or offered as "treatment" for the right reasons. They spearheaded weed legalization here by offering it as a treatment to us afghan vets first. To me it seems they just want to dope us up and the general population into a lazy stupor.
>>530083680kek kikes are really afraid Vets with nothing to lose will finally turn their guns in the right direction.
>>530083680>i need weed and shrooms or else i'm going to kill myselfgay
>>530083680Trump should refuse. NO DRUGS, NO ALCOHOL, NO CIGARETTES!
its baffling, BAFFLING and confounding that cannabis and psilocybin are both scheduled at the federal level. So stupid. We are a primitive culture STILL and this Israel fetishizing and subservience is just making it go backwards
>>530085221shrooms are actually incredible for breaking out of a depression and turning your life arounda lot of people have religious experiences on them and change their life for the betterit's also way more effective and with way fewer downsides than SSRIs, which is why they want to keep them banned
>>530084244>begging for goynipsome veterans are in chronic pain. that means they wake up in agony. the usa only hates weed because of dupont. go look it up, I bet your don't know your own history. the weed isn't the problem. a weed addict is highly functional and can enjoy life, and thats the worst this could go, most theraputic users don't overuse because it becomes less effective with tolerance to thc.
>>530085108You will get bombarded with internet warriors telling you there’s “no evidence” of a link (there’s a shitload of evidence it just isn’t conclusive). Anyone who has spent time in those circles knows that a substantial minority have severe, ‘call 911’ mental problems. As I said maybe 10-20%. I’m not talking about cool kids who smoke weed now and then I’m talking about dedicated weed/psychedelic enthusiasts.
>>530084885A. They were insane to begin withB. Adding any substance to a developing brain disrupts it. It's why you need to be a certain age to buy certain consumables.C. Weed is the devil and we need to ban it so cartels can make more money and pay my favorite politician to fuck my ass harder on substance lawsAll likely options
>>530084353the western world being enslaved to satanic jewish pedophiles is no concern of yours
>>530084885>>530085108>>530085621>>530085599the western world being enslaved to murderous satanic jewish pedophiles is really just a joke to your minds while bombs pepper the earth's surface
>>530084353cry more. literally everyone in the population deals with that shit. you just have the weight of killing poor brownoids for a paycheck weighing on your mind. it should, and more vets should kill themselves desu.
>>530086835You sound like a sad, pathetic little man.
>>530083680Weed is a crap drug. I quit that shit when it stopped being fun and witnessing friends and family becoming mental with the stuff.
>>530083680>Veterans Seek Broader Psychedelic, Marijuana Access to Fight Suicide CrisisMaybe they should, GET A FUCKING JOB!It's not good for the ming to sit at home all day doing nothing while collecting $4500 a month in VA Disability money.Now they need to be the only group legally allowed to do drugs that should be reserved for people that work, so they don't do us all a solid favor and kill themselves?Seriously fuck these creeps, and their poor me stories.
>>530087224>Weed is a crap drugyes these veterans aren't asking for these drugs because they want to, they are asking because they don't want to be fentanyl addicts. it's harm minimisation, you take what works + hurts you the least. I've worked with people with chronic pain and ptsd and it's horrible life. veterans deserve a chance to try anything which might work. it's much cheaper too.
>>530084885Because your friends were losers.
>>530087670>I've worked with people with chronic pain and ptsd and it's horrible life. veterans deserve a chance to try anything which might work. it's much cheaper too.Which part is horrible the chronic pain, or PTSD?Because here in America most of the Civilian population has PTSD to begin with.It's basically the default, which is why it should be categorized as a bullshit disorder.
>"I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life."B U R N 2 D I S CALSO:VETS SHOULDNT GET SPECIAL TREATMENT UNLESS WARZONE VET.NOT STATESIDE XEROX MACHINE MECHANIC, COOK, BAND, ETC.Th-th-that's what I ( as a non-combat vet) think!FIRST PRINCIPLES:"Handbook of Character Strengths and Virtues" (-_-) https://annas-archive.li/slow_download/f91e0cbe958a332fa01225e5fb910bbc/0/0"Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology" (a $200 book! Don't ask how I know! And the "Handbook", above, $99!)https://annas-archive.li/md5/78cbd04633a191bd5415579be8a1ec86Delphi "complete works of"https://thehiddenbay.com/torrent/20381749/Delphi_Complete_Works_[126_ebooks][EPUB_MOBI]_-_HYPATIAASOIAF read by Roy Dotrice, master of the accent and only reason I 'got into it' rlly. God bless this series. lol. Got me through a very dark time in my life. Engaging and complicated enough to absorb your attention if you try and fun n funny along the way, plus really an Almanac of Ancient Trivia and Historiographal (ya like that one? Im nt sure if I made that up or not. Historiography? Study of History and methods and philosophy etc? Anyhoo) contextualization (oh.....my gawd...so good! I ...am....) etc.ASOIAF is like a master storytellerdumping his ENtiiiirebags of tricks n tropeson the table and arranging them in clever andsurprising and amusing patterns n challenging, inside out designs.Once you get into it, that is. etc!https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5536103EPUB of series:https://annas-archive.li/slow_download/9a878a450989d6bf949623f7e9339d88/0/0
>>530087999KRANKY recordshttps://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4277044STARS OF THE LID (10/10)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2608573DEAD CAN DANCEhttps://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4400522Withnail & I, The Guard / Calvary, Jubilee (Jarman), Jonas Mekas, Hard to Be a God, November (2017), Homo Sapiens, Baraka / Samsara!, Down By Law, Night On Earth, In Bruges, 100 Bloody Acres, A Field in England, Microcosmos, Southbound, Triangle, Coherence, Locke, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Breakfast with Hunter 1 & 2, **"Level 5" (Marker)**, Fahrenheit 451, The Magician (Bergman), Game of Thrones, http://www.othercinemadvd.com/anxious.html, Badlands, Seconds, Woodstock, Gummo, Out of the Blue, The Man Who Sleeps, Frankenstein, Joan of Arc, Birth of a Nation, Empty Mirror, Cha Cha, Roadside Prophets, Last of Us, Dinner With Andre / Black Moon, 1st 1/2 of Tideland. Etc. Cornetto Trilogy. lel. Housebound? The Objective (2008)? Right at Your Door? When the Wind Blows? Good Vibrations?"TED"s are great, btw. (DynaVap, etc?) but, you'll blow through soo much more weed because you're no longer coughing your ass off, that youll likely find the "savings" minimal and might even find yourself buying even more material than normal
>>530083680also: thank you, Biden and Trump.fuck you, Obama! Oblahblah, I know youre reading this, you slick bastard, you couldve done this, and more, yeeeaaarrs ago!
>>530083680pain meds make me happy and productive
>>530083680Yea yes all the ptsd alphies will get sedated with weed and lsd and shrooms
8,000 troops died over 20 years in the 9/11 wars. In that same time period 120,000 serving troops and veterans killed themselves.
>>530088156>You Know Whos Not in the Epstein Files? Bibi Netanyahuyeah if mossad and the cia are running a pedo honey pot to trap billionaires it would be counterproductive to send your PM there anon
>>530087907>it should be categorized as a bullshit disorder.it's in the dsm so I don't know what to say anon. lots of research and the world's psychiatric community don't agree with youyou're lucky you don't have trauma significant enough to know ptsd is real. you could thank your troops for keeping you safe
Marijuana is a drug that makes you stupid, lazy, forgetful. Literally every single person I know who previously didn't smoke pot who now smokes has undergone a personality change for the worst. They just aren't "sharp" anymore. I will never try marijuana and I will continue to favor prohibition and watch stonies seethe.
>>530090181do you prefer the fentanyl? which is worse for society do you think
>>530084353You could have used the free weed to entice a wastoid stoner chick to be your bed mate.
>>530090323What kind of question is that? I'm against all drugs.
>>530083680I say make all drugs legal. if they're going to make our lives miserable at least let us have some pleasure
>>530090531>I'm against all drugsno you're not, you use drugs when you get sick and have an operation. these vets are sick do you get it now?
>>530087355Absolutely accurate post. Military welfare queens want exclusive access to weed and drugs because they think the rest of the country "owes" them for traipsing around a desert shooting people wearing sandals.
>>530083680No more suicides! make them schizos so they kill other people like they were trained to do
>>530090713I'm against drugs. >Erm *adjusts glasses* you say you're against drugs but what about medicine? Exactly the response I expect from a braindead stoner. I spit on you.
>>530083680>Don't kill yourself because of your shit life goy, take a bunch of mind altering drugs to stay alive!
>>530090908I'm not a stoner, I said I work with them. lots of people with opinions in this thread with no fucken idea. it's an american passtime. meanwhile your vets suffer. maybe stop sending them to die if you won't care for them when they come back.
>>530083680I have been using iboga to dealwith trauma and ptsd from my tours. I cant imagine the trauma Navy sisters on the USS Gerald R Ford with their toilet problems.
>>530090790Most vets aren't combat vets anymore are they? Like a GWOT medal doesn't mean you were shot at does it?
>>530090713>no you're not, you use drugs when you get sick and have an operation. these vets are sick do you get it now?You have a car don't you? Why are you not always driving it at the maximum speed? Checkmate walkchuds.
>>530091110>maybe stop sending them to die if you won't care for them when they come back.Yeah, I'll get right on that. Bring it up at the next meeting, maybe. Imbecile.
>>530083680As a long-time user of hemp and shrooms, I highly recommend it for all types of trauma and post-traumatic stress things.
