Army veteran David Hill says cannabis helped ease his post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and is now pushing for better access to the drug for other veterans.
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When he was discharged he deteriorated further as he withdrew from the medication, but medicinal cannabis helped Now in retirement, he's still hunting cannabis suppliers. But this time, it's as a customer on behalf of his son, David — an army veteran of two tours of Afghanistan who uses it to treat post-traumatic stress disorder ."It took me 22 years in the police force, and 20 years since, to learn that cannabis is a medicine."
His turning point came when David — who was suffering terribly with PTSD — left a psychiatric ward after being treated with massive doses of benzodiazepines."The benzodiazepines were not a positive impact on my life whatsoever," David said.
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