Smith’s just the kind of veteran lawmakers are trying to help with two U.S. House bills that passed out of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs on March 12:H.R. 712, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019, directs the Veterans Administration to conduct research on marijuana’s impact on physical ailments related to active duty. Given the understandable focus on coronavirus and Congress’s longstanding opposition to cannabis, a House vote this session is hardly a given. That response, Smith says, consists merely of treating vets’ symptoms with anxiety meds, high blood pressure meds, sleeping pills. Though there’s no hard data to support cannabis as a remedy for PTSD, many veterans swear by it.

Source: Forbes March 30, 2020 18:48 UTC