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The prospect of an initiative that could ban dispensaries in Colorado Springs frustrates We Grow Colorado's Drew Milburn.
After all, he views his business as a public service -- one that can benefit fellow military veterans like him. He's especially eager to reach those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, who he feels can be helped by MMJ no matter what Colorado's health department says.
In March, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment actively lobbied against adding PTSD to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana, helping to kill an amendment to that effect. But Milburn says he's seen MMJ positively impact the lives of PTSD sufferers.
According to him, "the patients we have with PTSD or other combat-related injuries live a much healthier lifestyle when they use medical marijuana than when they're given prescription narcotics, which is their only other outlet currently."
As for Milburn, he's blessedly free of PTSD symptoms despite having served as a marine from 1980 to 1992. Combat opportunities were relatively few during this period with the exception of the first gulf war, when Milburn worked as a recruiter. However, he was stationed in Beirut in 1983, when an attack on barracks resulted in the deaths of 299 American and French troops. He wasn't in the barracks at the time, and he credits proper counseling with helping him process the fallout from this tragedy.
