Dr. Sue Sisley shares the challenges she’s faced in researching cannabis as a treatment for PTSD

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 27 July 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week Commander Mark Divine talks to Dr. Sue Sisley about her work with marijuana as a treatment for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In April 2016, Dr. Sisley received approval from the DEA to conduct the first study to test how marijuana interacts with veterans with severe PTSD. She explains why the process took nearly seven years, and how she, along with the veteran community, were tenacious and determined to overcome the obstacles

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0:00.0	I don't know if cannabis will be a solution but I think that there's enough
0:18.4	anecdotal reports to warrant very serious research in this area.
0:24.0	The government has decided for us that cannabis has no medical benefit by putting it in schedule one.
0:35.0	We're swinging frogmen of the UTT.
0:38.0	Hey folks, Mark Devine with The Undable Mind Podcast here.
0:45.0	Thanks so much for coming back and joining us.
0:47.0	Super appreciate it.
0:48.0	Your time will not be wasted today.
0:50.0	We've got a really interesting guest, Dr. Sue Seisley. I hope I said that right. We'll find out in a moment.
0:58.0	Sue, hey wait, before we get started, and I'm jumping right into this, before we get started, my team has always on me to ask you to go rate our podcast at iTunes.
1:09.4	So go to iTunes and rate the podcast with 15 or 20 stars, however many they give you, so that we can pop up there and people can find us.
1:18.0	Okay, and also if you're not on an email list, please go to Unboodle of mine. com slash podcast and drop your name there.
1:24.6	Okay, so Sue, did I get your name right?
1:26.6	Is it Cicely or Cicely?
1:28.4	Cicely, but that's so good.
1:30.9	It's all right.
1:31.9	Yeah.
1:32.3	Thanks for your time. So, so Dr. Sicily, you are involved in
1:36.7	studying PTSD and trying to find better solutions than the typical narco solutions of our establishment, right?
1:45.6	Is that your mission in life right now?
1:48.0	That's our hope that we can uncover new treatments.
1:52.3	The government surprisingly if I don't see any real
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