Senate Committee Pushes VA To Explore Medical Marijuana As An Opioid Alternative For Veterans

Senate Committee Pushes VA To Explore Medical Marijuana As An Opioid Alternative For Veterans

A key Senate committee has included a variety of marijuana and psychedelics-related provisions in a report attached to a pair of spending bills—including calls to allow U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors to recommend medical cannabis if the federal government reschedules it, exploring the possibility of “reducing opioid use through medical marijuana” and cracking down on illicit grow operations. For example, the Senate Appropriatio…

Aird named vice chair of marijuana legalization commission

State Sen. Lashrecse Aird, D-Henrico, whose legislative district includes Surry County, will have a leading role in crafting the latest concept for a legal retail marijuana market in Virginia. Aird and Del. Paul Krizek, D-Fairfax, jointly announced on July 9 that they’d been named vice chair, and chair, respectively, of the new Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of The Commonwealth into a Cannabis Retail Market – a new body created from …

Gun Rights and Medical Marijuana in Virginia

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VA Secretary defends staffing cuts in visit to regional veterans hosp...

The Veterans Affairs secretary defended federal cuts to veterans' health care in a visit Monday in Colorado. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins visited the VA’s main facility in the state, the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.  Reuters reported in March the VA was looking to fire 82,000 workers to return [...] The post VA Secretary defends staffing cuts in visit to regional veterans hosp… appeared first…

Congress budget bills address medical marijuana, rescheduling, Chinese grows - Cannabis News World

Competing versions of a key spending bill in the House and Senate preserve medical marijuana protections but are divided on marijuana rescheduling. Congress budget bills address medical marijuana, rescheduling, Chinese grows is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs