Legislation to allow Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana is continuing to garner support in the US House and Senate.
Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act (H.R. 2682) was filed on April 18 in the House of Representatives by Congressmember Barbara Lee (D-CA). The following day, a companion measure with identical language was filed in the Senate by Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI).
The Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act would allow veterans “to use, possess, or transport medical marijuana and to discuss the use of medical marijuana with a physician of the Department of Veterans Affairs [VA] as authorized by a State or Indian Tribe, and for other purposes.” Under current law VA doctors are not allowed to even discuss medical marijuana with patients.
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