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Kentucky Can and Should Protect It's Veterans

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The Veterans Administration, in a stunning policy statement, has announced it will no longer require it's Doctors to withhold a Veteran's pain medicine if the Veteran tests positive for medical marijuana in a urinalysis. This is significant because a Federal entity is recognizing the reality and effectiveness of medical marijuana. The Veteran must be in compliance with State medical marijuana laws and in those cases the decision weather to stop a Veteran's medicine is left to the Doctor. In States without medical marijuana laws, the VA, even though there is no written policy requiring it, instructs their Doctors to withhold the Veteran's medicine. The original policy dated 2003 allowed VA Doctors in all States to make this decision. The new policy, in trying to walk a fine line regarding medical marijuana and Federal law has now put the medical care of Veterans in non medical marijuana states in jeopardy.

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The VA should have been accepting medical MJ all along. It's been proven to work.

Now the problem is getting the VA to pay for it as SC as they do all other meds!

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