Veterans need - and deserve - help finding a path to healing through cannabis
A veteran's op-ed on cannabis and PTSD: "It's time we are provided with a means to heal ourselves and become 'mission ready' for the next chapters in our lives."
View ArticleWill this be the year Congress expands veterans' access to medical marijuana?
A Senate committee just voted to allow VA doctors to talk medical marijuana with patients, but a similar measure was killed last year despite bicameral support.
View ArticleAs Trump admin wages war on legal marijuana, veterans side with weed
The Trump administration's attack on legal marijuana is increasingly confronting a politically potent adversary: military veterans
View ArticleDrive to get veterans access to medical marijuana hinges on House committee vote
A measure allowing veterans easier access to medical marijuana garnered bipartisan support in Congress last year and nearly became law. A vote Monday could be the end of the line this year in another...
View ArticleGOP blocks amendment to allow VA doctors to recommend medical marijuana to vets
The House Rules Committee decided not to allow a medical marijuana amendment to the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill to proceed to a full vote.
View ArticleVeteran sues police after SWAT team raided his legal Colorado marijuana grow
A former special forces infantryman, who won the Bronze Star and uses marijuana to treat PTSD after tours to Iraq and Bosnia, has sued the Fountain police SWAT team after officers raided his legal...
View ArticleVA roadblock hinders study on cannabis as PTSD treatment for veterans,...
Medical marijuana proponents say assistance from VA could jump-start a pioneering clinical study of cannabis in treating PTSD in veterans.
View ArticleAmerican Legion calls for 'direct involvement' from VA Secretary for...
The powerful veterans group says lack of support puts the pioneering, federally approved study in jeopardy.
View ArticleCongressional members press VA chief to help vet-focused marijuana research
The letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is the latest effort by House lawmakers and veterans groups to encourage cannabis research to proceed
View ArticleFears mount for California MMJ patients over "cannabis deserts"
Advocates worry that local bans on the California cannabis industry will make it much more difficult for some patients to access medical marijuana.
View ArticleAmerican Legion poll: Veterans overwhelmingly support medical cannabis...
A new survey by the American Legion showing strong support in the military veterans community for medical marijuana research and legalization.
View ArticleCongress members, veterans join forces in call for medical marijuana reforms
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives, along with several combat veterans and the mother of a Marine who died by suicide after struggling with prescribed pharmaceuticals, came together in...
View ArticleOp-ed: Veterans using medical marijuana in defiance of backward federal policy
Washington Post op-ed: Veterans' compelling stories about how medical cannabis helped them differ starkly from VA's federally imposed silence and lack of guidance.
View ArticleMore veterans parlaying their military skills into cannabis careers
Meet the veterans in the cannabis industry: The skills they developed in the military, including discipline and work ethic, are welcomed by businesses.
View ArticleNY governor signs bill on Veterans Day to allow medical marijuana for PTSD
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Saturday to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments that can legally be treated with medical marijuana.
View ArticleVeterans are key as surge of states OK medical cannabis for PTSD
Twenty-eight states plus the District of Columbia now include PTSD in their medical marijuana programs. The increase has come amid increasingly visible advocacy from veterans' groups.
View ArticleVeterans groups react to VA's shift in medical marijuana policy
The directive changes policy to support “the Veteran – (health) provider relationship when discussing the use of marijuana and its impact on health, including Veteran-specific treatment plans.”
View ArticleArkansas VA says they won't recommend, pay for medical marijuana
Although Arkansas voters have approved the sale of marijuana for medical purposes, doctors with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not be allowed to recommend or prescribe the drug to...
View ArticleVeterans and access to cannabis: 2017 in review
2017 was a year of frustration but also incremental progress for military veterans and their advocates as veterans' organizations and their supporters continued to lobby federal and state politicians...
View ArticleVA says it won't study medical marijuana's effect on veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will not conduct research into whether medical marijuana could help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.
View ArticleA closer look at the VA's softer stance on medical marijuana
A new directive from the Veterans Health Administration urges vets and their physicians to open up on the subject of medical marijuana, but whether vets will do so remains to be seen.
View ArticleVeterans group ratchets up pressure on White House and Congress to support...
Top officials at of The American Legion stepped up their calls for the federal government to legitimize and invest in medical marijuana research.
View ArticleNavy spending $1 million to investigate surfing as a way to counteract PTSD
Still no federal support for research into whether medical marijuana could help veterans suffering from PTSD, though
View ArticleTrump ousts Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin in administration's latest...
Trump said he would nominate Ronny Jackson, 50, an active-duty rear admiral in the Navy who has served for the past three administrations as a White House physician. The post Trump ousts Veterans...
View ArticleMedical marijuana advocates react to ouster of VA chief, nomination of Dr....
One veterans organization called David Shulkin's tenure at the VA, "a blunder that has caused harm to millions of veterans." The post Medical marijuana advocates react to ouster of VA chief, nomination...
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