Nevada health dept. allows treating PTSD with marijuana

Nevada health dept. allows treating PTSD with marijuana
Reported by: Sergio Avila
March 12, 2014

LAS VEGAS (KSNV and MyNews3) -- Medical marijuana can be prescribed to treat a variety of symptoms, but it's still widely unknown if it can help veterans.

Earlier this year, the state health department added post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions that qualify for medical marijuana.

One veteran made it his mission to get PTSD added to that list.

Dr. David Udy petitioned state health officials to add PTSD to the list.

He said his persistence paid off after just a couple of months.

Udy is confined to a wheel chair after suffering devastating effects from agent orange, a herbicide our troops were exposed to during the Vietnam war.

"That's where most of my physical problems come from," Udy said.
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