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same-gender-loving contemporary descendant of enslaved africans. community activist, feminist, health educator, independent filmmaker, mentor, playwright, poet & spiritual being. featured at, in & on africana.com, afrikan poetry theatre, angel herald, bejata dot com, bet tonight with tavis smiley, blacklight online, black noir, brooklyn moon cafe, gmhc's barbershop, klmo-fm, lgbt community services center, longmoor productions, nuyorican poets cafe, our corner, poz, pulse, rolling out new york, rush arts gallery, saint veronica's church, schomburg center for research in black culture, sexplorations, the citizen, the new york times, the soundz bar, the trenton times, the village voice, upn news, uzuri, venus, vibe, wbai-fm, wnyc-fm & wqht-fm. volunteered with adodi, bailey house, inc., black men's xchange-new york, colorofchange.org, drug policy alliance, east harlem tutorial program, imagenation film & music festival, presente.org, save darfur coalition, the enough project, the osborne association, the sledge group & your black world. worked on films with maurice jamal & heather murphy. writing student of phil bertelsen & ed bullins. mjt975@msn.com.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

New York signs a bill to give PTSD patients access to medical marijuana

a bipartisan bill to add post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) as a qualifying condition for new york's medical marijuana program was signed into law by governor andrew cuomo during veteran's day weekend.

the senate passed s 5629 in june (50 to 13), and the assembly version, a 7006, received overwhelming approval in may (131 to 8). new york is now the 28th state to allow medical marijuana to be used to treat ptsd.

the bill was sponsored by assemblyman richard gottfried and senator diane savino. also, mike avella, vince marrone, the new york state council of veterans organizations, the marijuana policy project foundation lobbyists and others led this advocacy effort.

"governor cuomo should be applauded for helping thousands of new york veterans find relief with medical marijuana...ptsd is a serious problem facing our state, and now we have one more tool available to alleviate suffering," said bob becker, legislative director fore the new york state council of veterans organizations.