PTSD Patients Could Be Left Behind As Ukraine’s Medical Marijuana Law Takes Effect And More Cannabis Updates Worldwide
PTSD Is Not On Ukraine’s Official List Of Conditions For Which Cannabis Can Be Prescribed, At Least For Now
Ukraine’s medical marijuana legalization law took effect earlier this month, some six months after Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed a bill legalizing medical cannabis into law.
Even though recent studies have confirmed the potential of cannabis and psychedelics to treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the new law in the Eastern European country doesn’t explicitly list this condition for which the plant can be prescribed, reported Business Of Cannabis.
That said, the Ukrainian healthcare ministry reported in September 2022 that over 90% of Ukrainians have developed at least one symptom of PTSD since the war started and that 57% are at risk of developing PTSD.
The Ministry of Health refused calls to include PTSD, according to Hanna Hlushchenko, founder of the Ukrainian Cannabis Consulting Group.
“We worked hard to include more conditions, but the Ministry of Health has taken a conservative approach,” Hlushchenko said. “For example, we pushed for the inclusion of conditions like insomnia and PTSD, but these were not added.”
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