After campaigning to convince other veterans that marijuana can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, Colin Bond is finally seeing that people are heeding his advice.
PTSD has become the most common condition treated by patients who use medical marijuana in Illinois, according to a new state report that also shows overall use of medical cannabis has risen 83 percent this year in Illinois with more than 46,000 users.
Bond takes the increased use of marijuana for PTSD as a sign that word is spreading that veterans have something to help them reduce or get off prescription painkillers and antidepressants, as he did.
“I have more good days in between my bad days,” Bond said. “More important, when I do have a bad day, it’s like a road bump, nothing like it used to be.”
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