just the driver and one passenger were in the car. they both died. if you play football you get hurt. that s just a fact. and if you play at the pro level, pain management is a critical topic. but there is a long list of pain killing drugs that are banned by the nfl, including marijuana. for years some players have advocated easing rules on pot saying it should qualify as acceptable alternative therapy. and as more states legalize at least some use of marijuana that argument gets louder. as of now, 33 states in the district of columbia have passed laws that broadly allow the use of medical marijuana, ten states legalized it as a recreational drug. so now the nfl has apparently agreed to look closer at the use of medicinal marijuana. walter dunsten is a retired nfl player. played for the san diego chargersen a the arizona cardinals. good to have you with us. how big a deal is this. there are a lot of guys just like you say advocating for the use of marijuana fore pain
hard as physicians is it creates an idea that women can t decide about why they are at the doctor. i m an abortion provider and people when they come for an abortion, they are pretty clear. they know what they are coming for. . they don t change their mind half an hour later and said i didn t want prenatal care i came for something else. so to be told by the legislature that i have to say, guess what, if in the next 20 minutes you decide that this isn t really what you want here s an alternative therapy for you that is untested unproven, i don t. know. the side effects. again. really disturbing to have to be legislation saying i have to offer something that i don t know even know if it works. how would you feel if your doctor did that for you? for me it s the relationship between physician and patient. thank you to the panel.
peacock. after normal medications and programs didn t work for extreme post traumatic stress disorder she turned to alternative therapy one normally prescribed to the blind. here now, angie s story. you know we talk about a decade of service and a lifetime of commitment. you look back and, wow, ten years already. it s the future we have to look forward to. we know there is no end to this. there are still korean vets korld war 2 and vietnam vets that 40 60 years later need assistance. this generation won t be different. they committed their lives to our freedoms and our way of life and security. how can we not turn around and say we are going to be there for you and for your issues for the rest of your life.
than come wattbat combat deaths in a year. you don t see the injury but it s there. it is devastating when left un untreat untreated. i went to an in patient post traumatic stress disorder treatment program. the medicine wasn t working and the therapies weren t working. they said you should try an alternative therapy. g.i. joe is my service dog. he s my companion, goes with me everywhere. he s my best friend totally. when i first got him i was not leaving the house. when i started taking him out i was like this is crazy. i can go to three placeses in one day. there is this bubble of joy that i could do that again. like i was living. i learned how to trust his ing stingts more than my own. i saw everything as danger. he had this little stroll about
this dentist. when chose to come to you, the hurdle i had to get over was the fear of falling an alternate therapy. do you come across that a lot in your practice? everyday with every patient. when patients choose alternative therapy they re going against often their family, certain the their doors who think it s a waste of time at best, and they have to make their open decision, stan on their own two feet and decide this is what they re going do, regardless of what anyone else says. when you go to sloan-kettering with cancer no one criticizes. you re going to mecca. everybody is on board. if you choose an alternative therapy to treat cancer, everyone gets nervous. the postman, the mail moan. i went through that myself. it takes a village to raise a child. it takes a village to make you healthy because i had the support of my boyfriend, my family, my sister, even my sister who is a nurse, everybody