It's actually pretty common for psych professionals to not want to treat or even diagnose people who are using mood altering substances which cannabis is. They need to know what your mental status is, unclouded by drugs or excessive alcohol.

I'm not going to debate with you, the addictive properties of cannabis, except to say that I believe it is both physiologically and psychologically addictive.

Unfortunately concurrent disorders are far too common, but the medical / rehab systems aren't set up to treat them together. There's slow change coming, but the rate of change is glacial.

What you experienced is the flip side of what I experienced when I first went to rehab for alcohol dependence. The rehab took me off several of my psych meds, because they were addictive according to them, and I couldn't possibly have the Dx I'd been given by my perfectly competent psychiatrist.

If you really want treatment for PTSD, then why not give up the weed for a little bit to get it.

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