Washington, D.C. — Today, the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee approved bipartisan bills that would increase access to state-legal medical cannabis for military veterans and expand research into the potential medical benefits of cannabis for conditions commonly diagnosed in veterans. The committee approved the Veterans Equal Access Act in a…
We are very supportive of our active military troops and veterans here at The National Marijuana News, so when I had the opportunity to interview Kaine Marzola I knew it was a great opportunity for our readers to hear a very real story about how medical cannabis has…
A recent report form the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is unsettling to say the least. The report shows that veterans represent 14% of all suicides in the country when they only make up 8% of the population. The data collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
The Weed for Warriors first impression of Dr. Ronny Jackson’s nomination is it could have been a lot worse given some of the names that were discussed. Dr. Jackson lacks any experience running a large bureaucratic agency. However, what we are getting is a highly qualified medical professional…
The current state of the VA Healthcare System might be at its lowest point ever. Military veterans represent a large portion of the over 40,000 deaths that come from prescription drug overdoses each year. That is not even taking into account the incredibly unfortunate suicides that have resulted…
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz maybe fighting harder than any other politician in D.C. for military veterans’ access to medical marijuana. Many veterans have been loud about the help they have received from medical marijuana with PTSD and chronic pain issues. Due to the Schedule 1 status of marijuana,…
The federal government does research marijuana to be clear, just not very much. They have their own facility in Mississippi that grows a relatively small amount of mediocre quality marijuana for research purposes. Either the Department of Veteran Affairs is denied access to this marijuana for research purposes, or…
The Department of Veterans Affairs likes to take itty bitty baby steps in acknowledging the health benefits of medical marijuana for veterans suffering from PTSD or chronic pain. The VA takes baby steps in giving veterans any credit at all from their testimonies that marijuana is soothing their…
SUNRISE, FL – The Department of Veterans Affairs in Florida has just accepted their first veteran with a FL state medical cannabis card into the PTSD therapy clinic, and whether it’s flower isn’t important to the Feds, and actually medically accepted at the federal level even though flower is…