Cenk Uygur
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Marijuana Offers Hope For Veterans, If Only It Wasn't...
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March 22, 2014
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3:49Now Playing"The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.
The Department of Health and Human Services' decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug's medical uses.
The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Matthew Perrone / AP / The Huffington Post:
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