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JOIN the CAMPAIGN! PLEASE Help Allow Medical Cannabis for PTS(d) for Veterans, Police, Firefighters and Other American Citizens Welcome to MERCYs web pages dedicated to information on Action for the Campaign to Add PTS(d) to the OMMP and related items of interest.  SUMMARY: - The Bill (S.B. 281) has passed the House (36-23) and will proceeed to the Gov for signing. There's a flyer the issue - here DETAILs: Please give us Feedback - Tell Everybody You Know about The Pending Change and Get Them To Conx The Senators and Reps who Voted For Veterans and Say THANK YOU! Also, in Letters-to-the-Editor (LTEs), see the Contact info, below, and more - sample letters, plus. - Tell everybody you know. Print Off and Make copies of this document and pass around all over the place. - If you're not able to contact your Reps yourself, PLEASE feel free to contact us and we'll help get your testimony or talking points down and to them. Call 503.363-4588 (in the Salem area) or visit our Office   About this page ... STATUS: - The Bill (S.B. 281) has passed the House (36-23) and will proceeed to the Gov for signing. PLEASE don't send the governor or anyone else a bunch of stuff with marijuana leaves plastered all over the place. They hate that and it is counterproductive. Most legislators look at that stuff and cringe. Many of them although supportive don't want anything to do with pot leaves, pictures or videos of people firin' up the ol' bong! Let's just keep working, keep our heads down and after we get passed what we want then you can celebrate. There will be a celebration after session for what we get accomplished but until then we need to work quietly along and get the job done. A number of individuals and groups continued the Campaign after the previous effort and a Bill is now almost a reality. If your Representatives and Senators voted Yes on the PTSD bill, contact them and say Thanx! Don't worry about those that did not support the bill at this point as we may need some of them on the rest of our bills and don't want to alienate anyone. By Taking good notes and establishing lines of communication at this time, We can line them up for things like Sunsetting the Fee Hike. Find Your Legislator online at -www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/findset.htm. Visit: www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/home.htm - and fill out the form entering your home address. Then click on the "submit" button and you will then be given your state and US legislators. Write your legislator online. To send a message to your State Senator or State Representative please visit: www.leg.state.or.us/writelegsltr/ and fill out the form. By entering your information, you will be automatically matched to either your State Senator or your State Representative. Click "submit" when you are ready to send your message. Phoning Your Legislator. During a legislative session, you may call your legislators by contacting the WATS operator. Within Salem, call 503-986-1187. Outside of Salem, please call 1-800-332-2313. Other Action Items In the meantime, we must inform, educate and activate those who chose to use cannabis for PTS(d) (or PTSD) as to their Affirmative and Medical Necessity Defenses available to them in court, should that be necessary. Also, we'll want to maximize utilization and involvement of benefits, services and organizations in supporting the Veterans and other focus groups in general to help these folks.   Action! What to do for this Alert  Tell everybody you know. Click here for > Flyer with info front and back (2 pages, 8.5x11). Here for > PDF version. <, here for > Quarter sheet front < (or PDF version).   Organizers Contact Info  For Campaign Info in general, contact: Perry Stripling Campaign Librarian and Webster for MERCY - the Medical Cannabis Resource Center 1745 Capital St. NE Salem, OR, 97301 send email   Officials to Contact Info  Find Your Legislator online at - www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/home.htm - and fill out the form entering your home address. Then click on the "submit" button and you will then be given your state and US legislators. Write your legislator online. To send a message to your State Senator or State Representative please visit: www.leg.state.or.us/writelegsltr/ and fill out the form. By entering your information, you will be automatically matched to either your State Senator or your State Representative. Click "submit" when you are ready to send your message. Phoning Your Legislator. During a legislative session, you may call your legislators by contacting the WATS operator. Within Salem, call 503-986-1187. Outside of Salem, please call 1-800-332-2313.   Act Now!  Action Items Call your Representatives and Senators and get them to sign on as co-sponsors to the PTSD bill (S.B. 281). It does not matter if they are D's or R's. We need all the votes and co-sponsors we can get. Then get back to us with names so we can get the bill to them for them to sign on as co-sponsors. Don't confuse them with anything else. Concentrate on getting them to sign on to PTSD. This bill will mean that thousands of Oregonians who use cannabis to combat mood symptoms, diseases or the intolerable effects of pharmaceuticals, will be free of danger of arrest, prosecution, civil asset forfeiture, child protective service investigations, employment discrimination, medical discrimination, jail and forced drug treatment. PLEASE contact us and Join the Campaign today! It is urgent that patients speak up, take part and tell Oregon and the World that you use cannabis to safely and effectively treat your conditions, or know someone who does, and that all patients deserve to use any medication that benefits them free of fear of prosecution. Then, tell everybody you know. And, then, tell everybody you don't know. Yet.

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( skip to End )  |   ( next )  |   the Info ...    |     ( prev )  |   ( go to Top )    Info on Action Alert  TALKING POINTS: What is PTS(d)? How does Cannabis help? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS(d)) is a psychiatric illness that can occur following a traumatic event in which there was threat of injury or death to you or someone else. Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after someone experiences or witnesses an event that causes intense fear, helplessness or horror. (PTS(d)) may occur soon after a major trauma, or can be delayed for more than six months after the event. When it occurs soon after the trauma it usually resolves after three months, but some people experience a longer-term form of the condition, which can last for many years. PTS(d) can occur at any age and can follow a natural disaster such as flood or fire, or events such as war or imprisonment, assault, domestic abuse, or rape. Many people who are involved in traumatic events have a brief period of difficulty adjusting and coping, after which they improve and get better. In some cases, though, the symptoms can get worse or last for months or years. Symptoms can sometimes interfere with normal functioning, sleeping, and interpersonal relationships. This is often when the diagnosis of PTSD is made. “One often intractable problem for which cannabis provides relief is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS(d)). I have more than 100 patients with PTS(d). Among those reporting that cannabis alleviates their PTS(d) symptoms are veterans of the war in Vietnam, the first Gulf War, and the current occupation of Iraq. Similar benefit is reported by victims of family violence, rape and other traumatic events, and children raised in dysfunctional families.” -- David Bearman, MD; from PTS(d) and Cannabis: A Clinician Ponders Mechanism of Action. Conventional treatment for PTSD includes psychotherapy, learning coping skills, and family counseling. Medications such as anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, sleep aids, and anti-anxiety medicines are often prescribed. Individual psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Group Therapy are among the non-medical treatments that have been tried with limited success. Anti-depressants, sedatives, and anti-psychotic medications have also been employed with limited benefit and serious side effects. Currently the U.S. FDA has approved two anti-depressants for the treatment of PTSD. These are Zoloft and Paxil, both of which have limited efficacy and produce remission in only about one-quarter of patients. Such medications have also been found to double the risk of suicidal thinking and suicidal attempts in patients 24 years or less, which pertains to a large percentage of our returning young veterans. Clearly, safer and more effective treatments are needed. PTSD not only results in an array of debilitating symptoms, but it also causes specific changes to certain areas of the brain that are responsible for the processing malfunctions that underlie this disease. For now, PTSD patients that live in states where medical use of cannabis is approved are using it to help decrease the debilitating symptoms of their illness and improve their quality of life. If you or a loved one is suffering from PTSD, you may find relief from the use of medical marijuana. New Mexico, California and Delaware already allow PTSD patients to utilize Medical Cannabis, and it is likely that others will also follow suit as more states recognize the benefit that this herbal botanical substance can bring. But nothing is going to happen unless we make it. Those of us who recognize the benefit of using Cannabis to treat PTSD need to make our voices heard in the Oregon Legislature.   PTS(d) and Cannabis  Many PTSD sufferers have found good results with medical cannabis use, especially for relief of insomnia and anxiety. Cannabis can give PTSD patients a sense of well being and serenity, and it allows them to continue to function with little to no adverse side effects. PTSD patients often prefer medical cannabis over conventional medications, as it is a single medication that helps with a number of symptoms (as opposed to taking multiple medications for each separate symptom) , and the risk of medication interactions is removed. There are a number of researchers currently exploring the science behind the use of cannabis for treatment of PTSD and the results are promising. A study from Israel in 2009 found that the cannabinoids (the medicinal compounds in the cannabis plant) prevented a stress response in previously traumatized rats. Another report from Israel in 2011 that PTSD patients using medical cannabis had "significant improvement in quality of life and pain, with some positive changes in severity of PTSD". These researchers, as part of their routine consulting work at MaReNA Diagnostic and Consulting Center in Bat-Yam, Israel, assessed the mental condition of 79 adult PTSD patients who had applied to the Ministry of Health in order to obtain a medical cannabis license. About half of the patients got their licenses and were studied for about two years. The majority of these patients also used conventional medications. The daily dosage of cannabis was about 2-3 grams per day. The patients reported a discontinuation of or lowering of dosages of pain killers and sedatives. The group of patients that showed improvement were those that also suffered from pain and/or depression. Researchers concluded that "results show good tolerability and other benefits, particularly in the patients with either pain and/or depression comorbidity". (Comorbity is the term used when a patient suffers from more than one condition). These results were presented at the 2011 Cannabinoid Conference in Bonn, Germany. Many of our patients who suffer from PTSD report that medical marijuana has helped them by lessening anxiety, improving mood, improving sleep, eliminating nightmares and producing an overall improved sense of well-being. Many of these patients had tried and failed other medication treatments. Why? How Does Medical Cannabis Work for PTSD? Activation of the primitive mammalian brain, or limbic system, during times of severe stress may play a role in optimizing survival. However, when this center of the brain becomes hyper-active and over-stimulated as a result of misguided neuro-plasticity, direct intervention at the cellular level is required. The key to using Cannabis to treat PTSD lies in the distribution of naturally occurring Cannabinoid receptors in those areas of the brain that cause the symptoms associated with PTSD. The presence of CB1 receptors in the hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex supports the conclusion that Cannabinoids are involved in regulating anxiety, response to stressful situations, and the extinction of conditioned fear. This conclusion is also supported by pre-clinical research showing that mice without CB1 receptors, or mice whose CB1 receptors have been rendered non-functional by chemical blockade, exhibit increased levels of anxious behavior and loss of the ability to extinguish previously learned fearful behaviors. Conversely, the stimulation of CB1 receptors in the amygdala of rats has been shown to protect against the effects of stress on fear conditioning and avoidance behavior. Early human studies using synthetic Cannabinoids have also shown that stimulation of the endogenous Cannabinoid system is significantly effective in reducing the occurrence of treatment-resistant nightmares in PTSD patients, along with subjective improvements in sleep time and sleep quality, and a reduction in daytime flashbacks. These results stand in stark contrast to a recent study sponsored by the Veterans Administration National Center for PTSD, which showed that treatment with a second-generation anti-psychotic medication was ineffective at controlling symptoms in combat related PTSD patients. For more information, Visit our page of info on PTS(d) and Cannabis, and tell everybody you know about it. And get them to write and spread the word, etc.   Library of Documentation for this Alert   Title / Description Text version Adobe-PDF version original version (MS-WORD, MS-Works, PPT) STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS BUREAU OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES MICHIGAN MEDICAL MARIHUANA REVIEW PANEL | It is with great importance that Four Freedoms submits the enclosed three packets of evidentiary documentation in response to the decision of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel to deny PTSd as a qualifying condition to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act of 2008. ( Packet, part 1 of 3 --- 13 research papers supporting the use of cannabis to treat symptoms of PTSd. ) - n/a - here - n/a - STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS BUREAU OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES MICHIGAN MEDICAL MARIHUANA REVIEW PANEL | It is with great importance that Four Freedoms submits the enclosed three packets of evidentiary documentation in response to the decision of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel to deny PTSd as a qualifying condition to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act of 2008. ( Packet, part 2 of 3 --- 7 research papers supporting the use of cannabis as harm reduction. ) - n/a - here - n/a - STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS BUREAU OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES MICHIGAN MEDICAL MARIHUANA REVIEW PANEL | It is with great importance that Four Freedoms submits the enclosed three packets of evidentiary documentation in response to the decision of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel to deny PTSd as a qualifying condition to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act of 2008. ( Packet, part 3 of 3 --- New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program Advisory Board final report 7 Nov 2012, media reports relevant to issue from New Mexico, and additional antidotal evidence. ) - n/a - here - n/a - EDWARD GLICK’S PETITION PURSUANT TO ORS §475.334 | In the Matter of the Petition of Edward Glick, to add Clinical Depression, Depressive Symptoms, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTS(d)), Severe Anxiety, Agitation and Insomnia, to Those Diseases and Conditions Which Qualify as ‘Debilitating Medical Conditions’ under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act here here here for DOC and here for WPS New Research. | Petitioner Edward Glick, petitions the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to add Clinical Depression, Depressive Symptoms, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTS(d)), Severe Anxiety, Agitation and Insomnia to Those Diseases and Conditions Which Qualify as ‘Debilitating Medical Conditions’ under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, as follows: This petition is subject to OAR 333-008-0090, and for that reason, petitioner submits the following new scientific research in support of adding each of these conditions. This additional research submission is in addition to research submitted in January, 2009. here here here Detailed Explanation, final. | Detailed Explanation Justifying the Inclusion of Additional Conditions Detailed Explanation Justifying Inclusion of “Psychiatric” Conditions onto the List of “Qualifying Conditions” in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program A Petition to the Oregon Department of Human Services was submitted through the Advisory Committee on Medical Marijuana on January 26, 2009. The objective of this Petition is to request the Oregon DHS to conduct an expert advisory panel. This process which is described in ORS 475.334 previously met in 2000. The end result of that deliberation was the inclusion of “Agitation Related to Alzheimers Disease” to the list of qualifying conditions of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. On February 9, 2009, DHS accepted the recent petition and requested “a detailed explanation for why these conditions should be included…” This document attempts to supply that explanation. here here here (back to top)

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