Saturday, November 11, 2017

Lots of headlines (and prior posts) about veterans having access to medical marijuana ... but work remains in Trump era

Veterans-day-thank-you-quotesRegular readers know I have, since starting this blog more than four years ago, regularly blogged about a range of issues relating to veterans and their access to marijuana (a dozen of my more recent posts on this topic are linked below).  I feel a genuine and deep debt to anyone and everyone who serves this nation through the armed forces, and I feel  strongly that veterans should be able to have safe and legal access to any and every form of medicine that they and their doctors reasonably believe could help them with any ailments or conditions.

Notably, this White House release from a few days ago touts "President Donald J. Trump is Putting Our Veterans First," and it quotes Prez Trump sating that "we will not rest until all of America’s great veterans can receive the care they so richly deserve."  But current federal law essentially puts veterans last, not first, when it comes to access to medical marijuana because doctors with the Veterans Administration are legally barred from providing the recommendations that patients needs to obtain medical marijuana under state laws.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, on this Veterans Day 2017, issues relating to veterans and their access to marijuana are getting ever more attention.  Here are a few recent press pieces that caught my eye on this topic, followed by a lot of prior posts:

Some recent prior related posts:

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/marijuana_law/2017/11/lots-of-headlines-and-prior-posts-about-veterans-having-access-to-medical-marijuana-but-work-remains.html

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