BY TESSA STUART
Veterans are typically the ones being celebrated on Veterans Day, but this year they will have something to celebrate themselves: greater access to medical marijuana in states where it is legal.
Doctors with the VA have been expressly forbidden from filling out the forms their patients need to participate in a state medical marijuana program. But on Tuesday the Senate passed the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs budget for fiscal year 2016. Tucked in the appropriations bill allocating money toward things like veterans’ benefits and military construction is a provision that prohibits the department from spending any of the money on efforts that would interfere with a veteran’s attempt to participate in a state-approved medicinal marijuana program. The amendment also forbids the VA from denying that vet any services.
The provision bars the money from being used to “limit or interfere” with a VA doctor’s ability to recommend a patient participate in the program or to offer advice on therapeutic weed.
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