Kurt Vonnegut, who would be 100 today, never liked the name Veterans Day. He preferred to call it Armistice Daywhich marked the end of World War I, a day of peace when an armistice preceded a peace treaty… “a moment,” Vonnegut wrote, “when armies stop killing each other.”

President Woodrow Wilson created Armistice Day in 1919 after World War I, but was changed to Veterans Day in 1945 after the end of World War II, part of which Vonnegut spent as a Nazi prisoner of war in Dresden.

And now Veterans Day?

US troops who have served in numerous wars and conflicts face crises of unprecedented proportions, including a rising suicide rate of at least 22 a day, homelessness, lack of employment, lack of medical care, runaway opioid use, and the difficult challenges of the bills from the military.

The suicide rate among veterans is more than double what federal officials report annually due to undercounts related to drug overdose deaths and errors in duty record, suggested a new analysis published in military time.

Veterans, Cannabis and PTSD

Currently, military veterans do not have access to medical marijuana (MMJ) through the VA due to Schedule I classification, although veterinarians participate in federally legal MMJ programs VA benefits are not denied.

MMJ: An Alternative to Opioids for Veterans and the Rest of Us?

Most medical professionals are not taught about cannabis as an effective treatment option, nor about that Endocannabinoid System.

dr Sue Sisley is trying to change that.

Sisley, head of Scottsdale Research Institute (SRI), is well known for its research into potential medical uses of marijuana to treat veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Sisley’s research is supported by the California-based company Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (CARDS).

As veterans, suicides began to rise nationwide and in her own practice, Sisley decided it was time “to take a closer look at what this plant has to do…