Feds Block FDA-Approved PTSD-Marijuana Research

A study on marijuana’s effects on treating patients with post-traumatic stress disorder has been approved, but it can’t go forward without the marijuana that it needs from a federal agency.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Almost four months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the University of Arizona Institutional Review Board approved a study on how marijuana could be used to help treat veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers are still waiting for the federal government to sign off on the study and allow them to purchase

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Vietnam Veterans Denied Benefits For Agent Orange Exposure

Hundreds of thousands of vets from the Vietnam-war era think it is fair they receive some kind of workers compensation, but the Department of Veterans Affairs has created a hurdle in the process.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
U.S. Army spraying Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

Correction: The original report identified the United Kingdom as being an active participant in land fighting during the Vietnam War. This was proven to be incorrect and the article was corrected duly. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. sprayed more than 20-million gallons of the herbicide Agent Orange over eastern Laos, Cambodia and communist-held

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Save A Warrior Group Tackles PTSD — Cohort by Cohort

Project founder Jake Clark pawned a couple of Rolexes to start the program to stem an epidemic of suicides among veterans.

Matthew Heller
By Matthew Heller
Photo Courtesy of Save a Warrior.

MALIBU, Calif. -- At first glance, the scene unfolding at a Malibu ranch might appear to be a petting zoo for adults, as a group of men takes turns slowly leading two horses and a pony by the reins around a dusty corral. A woman in a cowboy hat orchestrates the proceedings while from outside the corral, others watch intently. But what’s happening

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New Budget Kneecaps Key Wall Street Regulators

Some argue that the $24 billion needed to update the missile arsenal can be better spent elsewhere.

Carey L. Biron
By Carey L. Biron
In this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, photo, Daniel Kryger, left, and Kevin Lodewick Jr., right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

WASHINGTON --- Even as lawmakers celebrate passing the first bipartisan national budget and appropriations bill in four years, public interest advocates are expressing significant concern over Congress’s decision to fund two key financial regulators at levels well below what had been requested. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the

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Reversals in hard-won Iraqi city vex veterans

It is no surprise that the city’s recent fall to al-Qaida-linked forces has touched a nerve for the service members who fought and bled there.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The image of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge as a jubilant crowd pelted them with shoes seared the name Fallujah into the American psyche. The brutal house-to-house battle to tame the Iraqi insurgent stronghold cemented its place in U.S. military history. So it is no surprise that the city's recent fall to

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Fundraising Companies Pocket Fortunes, Little Left For Veterans

Charities for veterans pay professional fundraisers to run call centers that generate funds, then allow them to keep up to 90 percent of donations.

Jo Erickson
By Jo Erickson

Six charities purportedly devoted to American veterans ranked among the 50 worst charities in the nation, which means most money donated to them never reaches the intended beneficiaries. America’s Worst Charities, a collaboration by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting, listed the National Veterans Service Fund (8),

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