Suzanne “Sue” Sisley is
at the forefront of medical marijuana research. In December 2014 Dr
Sisley received a 2 million dollar grant from the Colorado Board of
Health to study medical marijuana treatment for veterans with PTSD.
Colorado approved $7.6 million in studies for medical marijuana
becoming the largest amount granted for cannabis research from any
state.
Colorado legislature created
the Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council to establish funds
for research. This fund reserves money from marijuana sales for
researching the effectiveness of marijuana for medical treatment.
Sue Sisley was previously a psychology professor at the University of
Arizona. Sisley explained her study: "This is a triple-blind
randomized control trial, where we're looking at 80 veterans with
treatment-resistant PTSD, which means they have to have failed at
least drug therapy or psychotherapy, or both."
Sue Sisley says her first
problem for doing this research is procuring cannabidiol
rich marijuana. Frustration from regulation has made this hard with
cannabis for research only available from the University
of Mississippi. Marijuana at this federally funded location does
not match the high quality of medication found at local dispensaries.
Sue Sisley is dedicated to
finding the benefits of medical marijuana. She states that the
approval by the FDA of marijuana as medicine will allow insurance
companies to pay for marijuana medications. Sisley goes on to say
that grants funded by the government allows for the most unbiased
research to show the benefits and risks.
Source:
http://www.dailycamera.com/marijuana/ci_27158147/researcher-sue-sisley-gets-2m-from-state-study-pots
http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/12/29/sue-sisley-op-ed/26029/
