Cannabis News: One Step Closer to Cannabis for Military Veterans

This week, a prominent U.S. Senate panel passed an amendment aimed at improving military veterans’ accessibility to medical cannabis by enabling Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) physicians to provide cannabis referrals in areas where it is legalized.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) sponsored the amendment, which cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee with a voice vote. It would also bar the VA to interfere with or refuse treatment to veterans who enroll in a state-authorized medical cannabis system.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed measures allowing VA physicians to offer medicinal cannabis referrals to their patients numerous times, but it has never become law. Some legislators are concerned that, even if the VA funding measure is included, government doctors could face disciplinary consequences from the Justice Department if they completed cannabis files while the plant is still illegal under federal statute.

Posted in News & Laws

6 Comments

  1. DRSmetal on August 7, 2021 at 9:45 pm

    For goodness sake, it’s a damn plant! πŸ™„



  2. δΈ‚γ„’γ„–ε‡ δΉ‡ε°Ί on August 7, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    Does include service members too?



  3. donkey limit on August 7, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    Stay beautiful Trichomes.



  4. Gary Fisherman on August 7, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    cant believe law has been blocking our heros to get medicine WTF FML



  5. Kenneth Freeman on August 7, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    So it’s still all bullshit. I’m screwed as a veteran in Texas. It’s not legal here so my PTSD apparently isn’t as important.



  6. Mary Morgan on August 7, 2021 at 10:26 pm

    jxeay
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