On March 10, 2014, the Arizona House of Representatives passed HB 2333, a bill that could have provided up to $250,000 in funding for our planned study of marijuana for symptoms of PTSD in U.S. veterans. The funds would have come from over $7.5 million in fees collected from the Arizona medical marijuana program. The possibility for the study to receive this funding disappeared, however, when Arizona State Senator Kimberly Yee (R-Phoenix), who chairs the Senate Committee on Education, blocked the bill by refusing to put it on her committee’s agenda before the March 20 deadline. Senator Yee said that she prefers the funds to be used for anti-drug education. With these funds now unavailable, we will still need funding to make the study possible.
