Salem-News.com Articles written by Dr. Phil Leveque

VA and Army Medical Care: More Dangerous than IED`s
It`s Also More Futile

Because medical cannabis is legal in Oregon I ended up with about one thousand PTSD Vets from all recent wars as legal MMJ users.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Along with other writers here, I have repeatedly posted articles of the same tone and I have received dozens of emails agreeing with me or commenting further in the same vein.

I have had very few comments from Vets stating that they had received good or even adequate care.

Army Psychiatrists: PTSD & Major Hasan - Retread

It's not a personality disorder.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Fort Hood Massacre leaves many questions in my mind. I can look at this and think about it from several viewpoints. I did have a year of psychology in college and a course of psychiatry in medical school. By any standard that is not enough.

I did have advanced psychology courses in the Infantry as a Private Combat Infantryman. I was convinced that most of my sergeants, junior officers and even farther up the brass chain were off kilter.

Medical Marijuana and the By-Product Industry: Drug Counselors, e.g. Roger Burt MSW

As marijuana becomes increasingly accepted, what will the people who profited from the misinformation do?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I hope everybody knows that I am a strong advocate for Medical Marijuana/Cannabis based upon its effective, safe medical use for the last 4000 years.

As a physician/pharmacologist/toxicologist who has assiduously studied the subject for 50 plus years I get horn swaggled by frequent articles about how useless, dangerous and addicting that this medicine is.

PTSD: Misinformation & Misunderstandings

PTSD is real.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Battle/Combat is certainly one of the most psychologically stressful activities of mankind but it is certainly not the only one.

Terror fatigue is part of PTSD. Being fearful in an artillery or mortar barrage is routine. Repeated exposure results in “is my turn (for death or injury) next”. Any battle veteran will tell you “it just gets to you”. Even killing of ones enemies is stressful. The pilot of the plane bombing Hiroshima never got over it.

PTSD and Fort Hood Massacre: Psychiatrist Shooter was Set for Mideast Deployment

NOW HEAR THIS: The Army VA Medical Service is broken almost beyond repair.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have written that even medical/surgical personnel have PTSD as bad as Combat Infantrymen. I didn’t have any email responses which surprised me but this event is an example.

The fighting soldiers, sailors and marines with PTSD have complained bitterly about deplorable service and VA care. Now it makes the TV and newspaper headlines. BELIEVE IT!

Medical Marijuana Affirmation: Congratulations to Oregonian Newspaper

It is very comforting to me that after 10 years of the Oregonian dragging my patients and I through the mud that they have finally become enlightened and crawled out of the closet.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have been hoping for this day for 10 years. As I was the Number One Medical Marijuana Doctor in Oregon for the first 5 years and an erstwhile target/victim of that paper who seemed to delight in making snide remarks about me and worse remarks about my desperate, usually destitute, disabled patients. This is indeed a new positive era.

On Tuesday they published an editorial WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA FEDS TO QUIT BEING A PAIN. I exalt in their change of distressful tone.

PTSD, Psychopathy, Temporary Insanity & Murder

Oregon Newspaper prints Pulitzer Prize Worthy Story.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - PTSD as a psychosis is a demon most of us Combat Veterans carry in our brains. It is started and cultivated mostly in Army and Marine Combat Training in which we are trained to be near psychopathic killers with hair triggers.

This is the only means to survive in battle in which a one second delay in response can get one DEAD.

Medical Marijuana: Friend or Foe
Gross Betrayal & Gross Ignorance Concerning MMJ Patients

Who would you believe... One of the nation's most educated doctors? Or a mainstream reporter with an obvious agenda?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I discovered by computer the original article by the same title in the Gresham, Oregon newspaper, The Outlook, by accident. I had been interviewed for it by Taryn Luna and was assured that it would be a well balanced story giving both sides of the medical marijuana story.

How sharper than a serpents tooth can be a reporters pen. I was more misquoted and disquoted than I could have imagined.

Medical Marijuana and the Great Pain Robbery

Patients pay extortion to use their Medical Marijuana.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - After seeing the movie Reefer Madness six times I am not surprised that its weird false propaganda infected many people who didn’t know anything about marijuana as medicine.

Marijuana has been used for medicine for about 4000 years. It was used during Biblical times and is mentioned in the Bible – Ex. 30:21-23 – sometimes called sweet cane, from the Hebrew kaneh bosum (cannabis).

Premenstrual Syndrome, Medical Marijuana and Queen Victoria

ABC touts new PMS drug.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Some may think this is an unusual trio for a title but the three are closely inter-related. PMS affects about 15% of women, some severely. It is related to cyclic hormonal changes familiar to all females.

Although the hormonal changes are responsible, the real culprit seems to be a Prostaglandin which causes the cramps.