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YESTERYEAR: General Assembly toys with corporate, military law

Mar 2, 2017

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Rachael Wright

…Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The Colorado General Assembly seemed to have lawmakers’ heads stuck in the corporate law section of the Colorado Revised Statutes. At the start of the 1997 legislative session, the Colorado Bar Association pushed two measures in the Legislature that would have far-reaching impact in corporate law,…
Colorado bill adding PTSD as qualifier for marijuana crosses important first hurdle

Jan 30, 2017

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Peter Marcus

State lawmakers on Monday offered hope to throngs of veterans who have for years been asking the state to add post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana. The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee unanimously backed the legislative proposal, offering a symbolic endorsement of the normalization of medical marijuana. The bill…
Colorado lawmakers could allow marijuana for PTSD; a hurdle remains

Jan 23, 2017

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Peter Marcus

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect that the hearing originally scheduled for Tuesday on the PTSD medical marijuana bill has been postponed. Post-traumatic stress disorder would be eligible for medical marijuana treatment in Colorado under a proposal in the legislature. Advocates believe this is the year to finally add PTSD as a qualifier for…
Gundersen: More research needed before approving marijuana for PTSD

Oct 11, 2016

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Jared Wright

The Colorado Psychiatric Society’s mission is to promote excellence in psychiatric care. Quality medical care is based on evidence derived from well-designed clinical trials. We are concerned about the draft bill that would add Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) to the list of debilitating conditions that are authorized to be treated…
Long: CDPHE has become the Colorado Department of Public Harassment and Exceeding the law

Oct 3, 2016

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Colorado Politics

For seven years, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) has abused its power. It is overdue for a Senate Oversight Committee to put it in check and balance. Recently, I was talking to a Colorado lawmaker about my concerns with CDPHE’s unresolved 2016 state audit that found serious conflicts of interests within CDPHE awarding years of…
Tipton: Honoring and serving those who have served us

Sep 29, 2016

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Scott Tipton

Colorado is home to over 400,000 of our nation’s veterans – men and women who have fought to protect our freedom in conflicts around the world. These men and women are often some of the most respected individuals in our communities, which makes it easy to overlook that they may be struggling to transition back into…
Interim committee: Pot for PTSD could be coming to Colorado

Sep 22, 2016

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Kristen Wyatt

Marijuana pioneer Colorado is poised to add post-traumatic stress disorder to its medical marijuana program, joining 18 other states that consider PTSD a condition treatable by pot. A panel of state lawmakers voted 5-0 Wednesday to endorse the addition of PTSD to Colorado’s 2000 medical pot law. The vote doesn’t have immediate legal effect; it’s…

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YESTERYEAR: General Assembly toys with corporate, military law

Colorado bill adding PTSD as qualifier for marijuana crosses important first hurdle

Colorado lawmakers could allow marijuana for PTSD; a hurdle remains

Gundersen: More research needed before approving marijuana for PTSD

Long: CDPHE has become the Colorado Department of Public Harassment and Exceeding the law

Tipton: Honoring and serving those who have served us

Interim committee: Pot for PTSD could be coming to Colorado