American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. source

Funny thing is that while you are in the military if you tell your leaders about suicidal thoughts and dreams they may ignore you until after they destroy that portion of your mind, life, or soul.

Then they may even go so far to destroy their own work records of your performance before discharging you.

According to the US national centre for post-traumatic stress disorder, up to 30% of combat veterans suffer from the condition at some point in their lives.

The two main reasons ecstacy is generally illegal are:

• the patent for it ran out a long time ago
  
• it can be used recreationally

Many people who join the military see combat or are hidden away from life for extended periods of time. After months or years of not trusting people and seeing the worst humanity has to offer it gets hard to ever trust anybody.

It gets hard to talk about things that are wrong in your life or mind.

If you lack a way to channel engery for long enough you lose the energy and become numb. You have effectively died.

And it is a bitch to start reliving again too.

Certainly many others had / have it far worse than I had it in the military. I think it is a complete crock of shit how poor this country treats those who give so much to help expand this empire.

I really wish they would start teaching about the military industrial complex in grade school to help many people avoid the mistake which enlistment is.

found from Boing Boing