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FFPM Recommendations
for Improving Access to Plant Medicine for First Responders

Use these ideas to start advocating in your own division, city or county.
Contact FFPM if you would like consultation, educational resources, peer support or other assistance.

  • Build awareness of the health risk among first responders, and the need for specialized help.         

  • Create a community of fire fighters and first responders where plant medicine knowledge and advocacy can be shared through peer support and therapeutic recreational activities. 

  • Find out if firefighters in your city/county can access medical cannabis; if not, start educating people in your area about the health benefits it could offer. 

  • Advocate for free NMDOH medical cannabis cards for veterans, firefighters, and first responders.

  • Support an amendment to the NM State Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act to protect first responders with NMDOH medical cannabis cards.

  • Endorse treatment scholarships to fund cannabis and psilocybin assisted therapy treatments for firefighters and first responders.

  • Request PEER support services (EMS, Sitter) for first responders utilizing Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT).

  • Start an education campaign on plant medicine for firefighters, first responders, fire service and union leaders, and government officials.

  • Advocate for Workers Comp coverage for PTSD treatments including PAT therapy.          

  • Request that the NM State-approved Workers Comp policy for PTSD act in accordance with NM presumptive illness cause law.

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