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Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers
Posted by CN Staff on August 04, 2004 at 12:40:27 PT
Breaking News
Source: Daily Telegraph UK
Israeli soldiers suffering from combat stress could soon be treated with cannabis to relieve their symptoms. "The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medical corps, in cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is introducing the use of THC, the active agent in the cannabis plant, which helps relieve post-traumatic stress disorders, on an experimental basis," an army statement said.
The mental health department of the Medical Corps was set to to begin tests on volunteers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after reserve duty.Hundreds of Israelis have been treated for combat stress after performing their mandatory national service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The scientist who will help conduct the experiment heads a research team which discovered that cannabis helped mice which had suffered physical stress, and had even reduced the risk of stroke.The army said the use of THC had been approved by a military and a civilian committee.Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)Published: August 04, 2004Copyright: 2004 Telegraph Group LimitedContact: dtletters telegraph.co.ukWebsite: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/Related Articles:Green Green Grass of Home http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15952.shtmlLetter From Israel - Keep on the Grasshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15130.shtmlThe Wrong Drug Front - Ha`aretz Daily http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14851.shtml
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Comment #6 posted by kaptinemo on August 05, 2004 at 06:16:16 PT:
And a terrible reminder of the ones
who didn't come back:A personal account of the mourning at “Arlington West,” where every Sunday on the beach by the Santa Monica Pier crosses are placed in the sand: one for each of our war dead.
By April Fitzsimmons
 
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=802&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0Those who've seen war, declared or not, 'legal' or not, warned against this. Even 'here', it was stated before the insanity started that there's not one square inch of soil outside the US that is worth one soldier's life.But one might argue it's the dead that are the lucky ones; the living still reside in their private Hells...
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Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on August 05, 2004 at 06:08:14 PT:
An especially relevent article
Combat is not a video game; it is real and it can be traumatic. Does the US Army understand this? 
By Gerald Rellickhttp://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=806&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on August 04, 2004 at 17:42:10 PT:
And the delivery method is?
Interesting how they didn't mention it, isn't it? Could it be perhaps they were (stage gasp) *smoking* it? As is so common throughout the region?And I can just hear some anti doing mental gymnastics, trying to justify how Israeli soldiers may use cannabis, and American soldiers - and everyone else - may not.So, Johnny Pee, cannabis is *not* medicine? Especially not when it's (oh, horrors!) smoked? I believe the Israelis might have something to say about that.The degree of mental convolutions that this has added to the already twisted, pretzel-like logic of cannabis prohibition will eventually cause these anti fools to bite their own backsides...
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Comment #3 posted by billos on August 04, 2004 at 13:50:37 PT
Does this mean that Herr bush.......
will not like Israel anymore and stop sending billions of our dollars to that country every year??  Yaaayyy.
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on August 04, 2004 at 13:19:54 PT
Related Article from The Jerusalem Post
IDF to Treat Shell Shock with CannabisAugust 4, 2004
    
Source: Jerusalem Post (Israel)Website: http://www.jpost.co.il/The IDF will soon begin using cannabis to treat soldiers suffering from combat stress, the military said Wednesday. An army statement said the military medical corps and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem would begin treating victims of post-traumatic stress - commonly known as shell shock - with THC, the active ingredient in the cannabis plant. It said the treatment would begin on an experimental basis. "The use of THC as part of the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was approved by military and civilian committees relevant to the subject," the statement said. An IDF spokesman said treatment would be given to both conscript soldiers and reservists. Since September 2000, the Israeli military has been conducting day to day operations against the Palestinian terror infrastructure in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. During that time many soldiers have been treated for combat stress following service at military checkpoints and in military operations. The IDF continues to ban the use of all drugs on a leisure basis, including cannabis derivatives marijuana and hashish.Copyright: 2004 The Jerusalem Posthttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1091589016749
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Comment #1 posted by medicinal toker on August 04, 2004 at 13:08:42 PT
Do the Palestinians get this therapy too?
If Israeli Defense Forces (sic) are traumatized by bulldozing the homes of Palestinians, how do the Palestinians feel?
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