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Veterans Deserve Accurate And Lawful Guidance On The Use Of Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 06/05/2015 - 08:00

The Senate Appropriations Committee recently included a provision in a bill funding construction and veteran medical benefits, allowing Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients for post-traumatic stress disorder and other medical conditions. During the May 21 hearing, Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, said that veterans are currently forced to seek private medical appointments to discuss medical marijuana outside the VA system, which is “an enormous inconvenience to our veterans.”

Under current regulations, VA doctors are prohibited from making recommendations or offering their medical opinions to patients about the use of medical marijuana. The recent Senate provision would allow VA physicians to recommend it, but not to write a prescription.

To be clear, currently, no doctors — whether private sector or government — can write prescriptions for medical marijuana, even in states that have passed...

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