FROM THE WITHDRAW FROM A FAILED
WAR IN AFGHANISTAN TO HEARTLESS
DISMISSAL, CANNABIS RESEARCH,
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTINUES
TO ABANDON VETERANS.
VETERANS GROUPS FAR AND WIDE
LIKE THE AMERICAN LEGION
OVERWHELMINGLY ENDORSED CANNABIS
RESEARCH SO VA DOCTORS CAN
UNDERSTAND AND VAGUELY
PRESCRIBED MARIJUANA TO PARK ON
ORDERS WHO SUFFER FROM
EVERYTHING FROM PTSD TO INSOMNIA
AND CHRONIC PAIN.
IN 2017, THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF
MEDICINE ANNOUNCED THEY SCORED
OVER 10000 RESEARCH PAPERS IN
ABSTRACT AND CONCLUDED THERE IS
CLEAR EVIDENCE CANNABIS CAN
TREAT CHRONIC PAIN, MS HAND
SYMPTOMS AND NAUSEA FROM CHEMO YET THE VA HAS DECIDED THERE IS
YET THE VA HAS DECIDED THERE IS
NO MEDICAL BENEFIT TO MJ SO WHY
BOTHER LOOKING INTO IT?
THE VA AND D.O.J. WORK
HAND-IN-HAND FOR REQUIRING FOR
MEANINGFUL RESEARCH BECAUSE THE
PLANT IS A SCHEDULE ONE
SUBSTANCE THAT HAS NO MEDICAL
BENEFITS.
THEY ENGAGE IN A CIRCULAR LOGIC,
THERE HASN’T BEEN ENOUGH
RESEARCH SO WE DON’T REALLY KNOW
WHAT’S IN THERE.
WHATEVER IS IN THERE, IT HAS NO
VALUE AS WELL AS CONFIRMATION
BIAS, ONLY STUDIES THAT SEARCH
FOR HARMFUL EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA
AND NOT PAIN PORTING LIFESAVING
BENEFITS MANY VETERANS
DESPERATELY.
THIS IS THE MOST UN- SHOCKING
SIDE EFFECT PRESIDENT BINDS
ADMINISTRATION, HE WAS THE ONE
WHO AUTHORED AND SHEPHERDED IN
1994 CRIME BILL THAT DICTATED
MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOR MARIJUANA DESPITE CLAIMS HE’S EVOLVED ON
DESPITE CLAIMS HE’S EVOLVED ON
WEED, HE’S DEPOSITING GATEWAY
DRUG.
LAWMAKERS FROM HIS OWN PARTY ARE
FIGHTING HIS ADMINISTRATION AND
VARIOUS AGENCIES TO FIND THE
MOVE ON SOME ASPECTS OF
RESCHEDULING OR LEGALIZING OR
MEANINGFULLY DECRIMINALIZING
CANNABIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT -- 2019 BILL
TELLING THEM THE D.A. TO PLEASE
STUDY CANNABIS FOR PTSD BUT HE’S
GETTING STONEWALLED BY THE
AGENCY AS JEFFERSON SESSIONS
NATION’S TOP COP. THE FEDS DRAGGED THEIR HEELS
THE FEDS DRAGGED THEIR HEELS
FROM A THERAPIST WHO SETTLE FOR
OPIOIDS AND ANTIDEPRESSANTS.
THOSE SUFFERING MOST TEND TO
SELF MEDICAID.
IT’S A SHAME THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT LET IT COME TO THIS
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BILLS THAT
COULD BE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT
WOULD EASILY USE THEIR
SUFFERING.
INSTEAD, THEY ARE IGNORED BY
FUZZY OLD DRUG WIRES WHILE THE
REAL WARRIORS TAKE THEIR OWN
LIVES TO THE TUNE OF 18 A DAY.
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS HAVE
THE POWER TO STOP THE SUFFERING
BUT THEY ARE DRUNK ON THEIR OWN
POWER WHICH IS THE DEADLIEST
GATEWAY DRUG FOOTBALL THAT’S THE
MEMO.
DEMOCRATS WAVING THE GREEN FLAG
FOR POT FROM BILLS TO WIDESPREAD
LEGALIZATION, LEGISLATION IS OUT
THERE.
WHAT HE EVEN SIGN IT?
THE PARTY PANELIST BACK.
CHRIS BEDFORD AND KRISTIN TATE.
OBVIOUSLY THIS ISSUE REACHED
CRITICAL MASS, IT’S INSANE WE
ARE STILL HAVING THIS DISCUSSION
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MARIJUANA IN
MEDICAL TERMS, 36 STATES
INCLUDING DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HAVE AT LEAST MEDICAL MARIJUANA,
12 STATES MARIJUANA IS A FULLY
LEGAL SO WHY IS THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT DRAGGING HEELS
ESPECIALLY IN THIS ONE AREA FOR
PEOPLE NEED HELP SO DESPERATELY?
>> I THINK IT’S OLD-FASHIONED
POLITICS AND BEING UNFOCUSED ON
THE WRONG THINGS.
I MAY BE YOUR ONLY FRIEND WHO IS
NOT IN FAVOR OF RECREATIONAL USE
OF MARIJUANA BUT TWO OF MY VERY
GOOD FRIENDS FROM OF MY OLDEST
FRIENDS, HIGH FUNCTIONING FAMILY
MEN FOR BOTH VETERANS ON THE WAR
ON TERROR HAVE BEEN HELPED BY
MARIJUANA IN MY PERSONAL LIFE
THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
ONE WAS ABLE TO KICK ALCOHOLISM
WAS STARTING TO KILL HIS BOTTLE
AND WHAT HAVE LEFT HIS TWO TWIN
DAUGHTERS FATHERLESS.
HE KICKED IT COMPLETELY WITH
HEINEKEN ZERO TWO WE CALM HIM
DOWN FROM HIS PTSD.
ANOTHER FRIEND FINALLY FOUND
SLEEP, HE DIDN’T WANT TO GET ON
PILLS OR BEYOND ANTIDEPRESSANTS,
HE WANTED TO BE ON PROZAC BUT
WITH A LITTLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA,
HE COULD SLEEP AT NIGHT AND GET
THROUGH NIGHTMARES AND THE
THINGS THAT KEPT HIM UP AND THE
STRESS OF THE DAY FROM LEFT OVER
FROM HIS PTSD AND PULL HIS LIFE
BACK TOGETHER.
BOTH OF THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT
ADDICTS, THEY’VE NOT BEEN
DRAGGED DOWN, THEY ARE HIGH
FUNCTIONING FAMILY MEN SEEN THAT
IN PERSON IN REAL LIFE TURNS ME
ON MADE ME MUCH MORE OPEN TO THE
IDEA OF THIS SO IT’S SAD TO SEE
SCIENTISTS WILLING UNWILLING TO
GO AFTER THIS AND SHOWS YOU HOW
POLITICAL OUR SCIENTISTS ARE.
KENNEDY: I THINK PEOPLE
SHOULDN’T BE DOING A LOT OF
THINGS BUT I DON’T THINK THEY NEED TO BE ILLEGAL AND OVERLY
NEED TO BE ILLEGAL AND OVERLY
REGULATED SO JUAN, WHY IS THIS
STILL STICKING POINTS?
>> THE POLITICS OF THIS
ANACHRONISTIC IN MY VIEW BUT I
MUST SAY A LOT OF THIS, YOU LOOK
AT THE AGE GROUP THAT RUNS THE
COUNTRY IN THE U.S. SENATE AND
THE WHITE HOUSE, I THINK THESE
ARE PEOPLE WHO GREW UP REEFER
MADNESS AND SCARE TACTICS ABOUT
MARIJUANA AND THEY ARE NOT OPEN
MINDED, THEY ARE AFRAID IF THEY
DO OPEN THE DOOR AND ANYTHING
GOES WRONG FROM THEY WILL BE
LABELED AS PEOPLE WHO ALLOW
DRUGS IN THE NANCY REAGAN TYPE
WORLD TO SAY YOU OPENED THE DOOR
AND THESE YOUNG PEOPLE RUSH
THROUGH IT AND LOOK AT THEM AND
ALL THE CATASTROPHE THAT CAN
COME FROM YOUNG PEOPLE USING
DRUGS.
I THINK -- I GOT TO TELL YOU,
IT’S OVERWHELMING AND MORE SO IT
SEEMS TO ME A MATTER OF AGE AND
CONSERVATISM BUT WE DON’T WANT
TO DEAL WITH IT.
KENNEDY: YOU ARE RIGHT BECAUSE
CONSERVATISM HERE DOESN’T HAVE
TO DO WITH PARTY.
YOU ARE ALSO RIGHT PEOPLE
RUNNING THE COUNTRY ARE SO OLD
THEY MAKE LOOK LIKE GRETA.
>> THAT’S TOUGH.
[LAUGHTER]
>> I’M NOT A FAN OR ADVOCATE OF
RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA BECAUSE
IT’S NOT HEALTHY FOR MOST PEOPLE
BUT THERE’S EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST
MARIJUANA HAS MANY MEDICAL
BENEFITS, PARTICULARLY FOR PAIN
RELIEF AND BECAUSE OF THE STIGMA
WE HAVE ATTACHED, WE NOW HAVE
THIS IRONIC SITUATION FOR MANY
PEOPLE ARE ABUSING IT AND USING
IT RECREATIONALLY, WE ARE NOT
ALLOWED TO STUDY IT AND FIGURE
OUT THE BENEFITS FOR MEDICAL USE
USE.
KENNEDY: MAY BE THE VA AND EVERY
RESEARCH INSTITUTION SHOULD BE
DOING AS MUCH AS THEY POSSIBLY
CAN TO STUDY AND LEARN TO PEOPLE
WHO NEED IT AND GET IT THE MOST
APPROPRIATE FORM INSTEAD OF
FUMBLING AROUND AT DISPENSARIES
AND TRYING TO DO THEIR OWN
PERSONAL EXPERIMENTS.
ALL RIGHT WHICH, YOU KNOW,