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House Bill Would Give Veterans Easier Access
Posted by CN Staff on February 04, 2015 at 04:32:56 PT
By Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post 
Source: Huffington Post 
Washington, D.C. -- A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives Tuesday would allow Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana to military veterans in states where it is legal.The Veterans Equal Access Act would allow VA doctors to recommend or offer opinions about medical marijuana for veterans suffering from serious injuries or chronic conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder. VA doctors are currently prohibited from aiding patients seeking medical use of marijuana.
“Post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury can be more damaging and harmful than injuries that are visible from the outside,” said Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), a co-sponsor of the bill. “And they can have a devastating effect on a veteran’s family. We should be allowing these wounded veterans access to the medicine that will help them survive and thrive, including medical marijuana -- not treating them like criminals and forcing them into the shadows. It’s shameful.”Nearly 30 percent of veterans who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars suffer from PTSD and depression, according to a 2012 VA report. Some research has suggested marijuana may help PTSD symptoms, which can include anxiety, flashbacks and depression. A recent study found that PTSD symptoms in patients who smoked cannabis were reduced an average of 75 percent. Other co-sponsors of the bill include Reps. Sam Farr (D-Calif.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).Currently, 23 states allow the medical use of marijuana. Ten of those states, as well as Guam, allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana for PTSD-related symptoms. The plant remains illegal under federal law for all uses.“The men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have made tremendous sacrifices for our country," said Dan Riffle, director of federal policies for Marijuana Policy Project. "They deserve every option available to treat their wounds, both visible and hidden."Source: Huffington Post (NY)Author: Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post  Published: February 3, 2015Copyright: 2015 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC Contact: scoop huffingtonpost.comWebsite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/JLrjfiQGCannabisNews  Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #2 posted by Richard Zuckerman on February 04, 2015 at 13:06:26 PT:
DON'T FORGET: BIG PHARMA BEGAN FROM NAZIS!!!
I don't believe everything I hear from monopoly medical doctors, especially on VACCINES, because [1] they are more or less salespersons for the pharmaceutical industry, which had begun from the Nazis, are run as big business rather than health care. http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm; and [2] had been substantially funded by the Bush Family and Rockefeller family,
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=John+Loftus+Nazis. 
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Comment #1 posted by Oleg the Tumor on February 04, 2015 at 09:02:57 PT
More Unneeded Lipservice
Talk, talk, talk, it is all beginning to sound the same."Help the vet," everyone cries as if there were some possible opposition to this proposition somewhere, but there is none.Neither is there real relief under the law. Not for the vets, the epileptics, nor for the rest of the "defective class" that populate the realm of human maladies, because as we all know, cannabis is a schedule 1 drug. It was made that way on purpose by moneyed interests who would prefer to keep it that way.In a world where money masquerades as the equal of speech and corporations are represented as the equal of humans before a court of law, it should be noted that no corporation ever pulled a buddy off the beach under fire, or died defending freedom for We the People.That is a job for The Grunt, not boards and committees."We should be allowing these wounded veterans access to the medicine that will help them survive and thrive, including medical marijuana -- not treating them like criminals and forcing them into the shadows. It’s shameful.” You tell him, Earl.".... VA doctors are currently prohibited from aiding patients seeking medical… use of marijuana." This logic defaults to the same oxymoronic process that brought us the original marijuana tax stamp scheme that was declared unconstitutional in 1967 via the Timothy Leary case!We need action, not talk! Reform, not posturing!FREE THE PRISONER OF SCHEDULE 1!
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