A UBC Okanagan-led study will be Canada’s first large-scale clinical trial on marijuana as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, the Vancouver Sun reported.
“A lot of veterans are using cannabis to help with their PTSD,” said UBC Okanagan psychology professor Zach Walsh. “What we see, unfortunately, with treatment-resistant PTSD is people will be on a combination of drugs — one thing to help with sleep, another thing to help with mood and sometimes a bunch of other stuff…. What (veterans say) cannabis does is it addresses a lot of those issues concurrently. It helps them get to sleep, it relaxes them, it helps them to function on a day-to-day level.”
