VA prohibits medical marijuana prescriptions

VA = United States Department of Veteran Affairs. There are more than 1200 New Mexicans legally using medical marijuana under state law, of those, about 25 percent of them are veterans returning from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But at VA hospitals nationwide, doctors are being told not to give out prescriptions because medical marijuana is still illegal under federal law. A memo sent out to VA doctors has stated if they were to help patients get medical marijuana by filling out forms, it could mean their license to prescribe drugs could be revoked and could even result in criminal charges.

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[g3baldridge]

I served my country in Vietnam and suffer with a multitude of medical problems / 7 screws 5 rods and 2 connectors in my back and suffer severe Chronic Pain 24/7 to where cannabis could help but they "VA" say the only thing they can give me for my suffering of 43 years is Morphine!!! Which is worst, Smoking Some Pot Every Day? Or being stoned unconscious by morphine?

[Potemtole]

@marsvolta1386 i was about to write the same thing, lol. The government WORKS for US THE PEOPLE not the other way around. We pay them to serve us how we want to be served, not so government can rule with an iron fist. This is a democracy not a monachy. Stand up and make your voice heard, send letters, show up on their front door with a full presentation proving that cannabis is less harmful than caffine, asprin, sugar, and a plethera of other acepted DRUGS that are ok to feed our children!

[marsvolta1386]

@Potemtole i agree, it's a shame how the Gov has lied about Pot all this time.

[marsvolta1386]

lol "Nothing we can do about federal law" Wow lady really nothing we can do? how about sending letters to your congressmen and women, sending letters to your states representatives, calling them, marches, pff give me a brake this isn't Cuba.

[HolisticPlantHealth]

1:15 There is nothing we can do about federal law (?) what is a Ignorant defeatist attitude.

Why is it that nearly every story you hear covered on broadcast TV (Not just CAnnabis stories either) has someone interviewed who inevitably doesn't have a clue what they are talking and gives absolutely no helpful information about the topic yet are billed as an expert or at the least qualified to open their mouth to talk when they are not qualified to talk period.