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CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WILL TAKE UP MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS BILLS
FOR VETERANS AT HEARING NEXT WEEK
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Kyle Jaeger
A U.S. House subcommittee focused on health issues for military veterans has
scheduled a hearing for next week where members will consider two GOP-led bills
concerning medical marijuana and psychedelics.
The House Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee will meet on March 21 to discuss
the drug policy measures, among several other veterans-focused proposals. The
panel made history last November by holding a first-ever congressional hearing
focused on psychedelics-assisted therapy for veterans.
One of the bills that’s on the agenda, sponsored by the subcommittee chair Rep.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), is titled the Veterans Cannabis Analysis,
Research, and Effectiveness (CARE) Act.
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It would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to “conduct and
support research relating to the efficacy and safety of forms of cannabis” for
chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and “other conditions the
Secretary determines appropriate.”
The legislation specifies that the VA studies must involve plants and extracts,
at least three varieties of cannabis with different concentrations of THC and
CBD and “varying methods of cannabis delivery, including topical application,
combustable and non-combustable inhalation, and ingestion.”
VA would first have to submit a research plan to House and Senate Veterans’
Affairs Committees and make any requests to support the studies. Over the course
of five years after the bill is enacted, VA would need to send annual reports on
its progress to the panels.
The measure is identical to an earlier measure Miller-Meeks sponsored last
Congress. On the Senate side, a committee approved a separate bill last
February to promote research into the therapeutic effects of marijuana for
military veterans with certain conditions. However, Senate Republicans blocked a
procedural motion to advance it to the floor.
The other bill that’s being taken up in the House subcommittee next week,
sponsored by Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), would instruct VA to notify Congress
if any psychedelics are added to its formulary of covered prescription drugs.
It states that VA must report to Congress on the addition of any psychedelic
medicines to its formulary within 180 days of their federal approval by Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).
The report would need to include “the determination of the Secretary whether to
include such drug in the formulary of the Department,” as well as “the
justification of the Secretary for such determination,” the bill text says.
Currently, there are no psychedelic drugs that are federally approved to
prescribe as medicine. But that could soon change, as FDA recently agreed
to review a new drug application for MDMA-assisted therapy on an expedited
basis. The agency has also designated psilocybin, and more recently an LSD-like
compound, as “breakthrough therapies.”
In January, VA separately issued a request for applications to conduct in-depth
research on the use of psychedelics to treat PTSD and depression.
Van Orden, who filed the psychedelics bill, is also a co-sponsor of a bipartisan
measure to provide funding to the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct
clinical trials into the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelics for
active duty military members. That reform was signed into law by President Joe
Biden under an amendment attached to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA).
Meanwhile, in a floor speech last year, the Miller-Meeks, the subcommittee
chair, talked about the need to support “novel forms of research” to unlock the
potential of psychedelics and cannabis for the treatment of conditions like PTSD
that commonly afflict veterans.
She also touted first-ever FDA guidance on psychedelics research that she
separately requested in a bill filed last year alongside Reps. Dan Crenshaw
(R-TX) and Ro Khanna (D-CA).
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During joint U.S. House and Senate committee meetings last week, veterans
service organizations (VSOs) pressed members of Congress to more urgently pursue
the potential benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy and medical marijuana.
The requests from groups like the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Disabled American Veterans and
the Wounded Warrior Project came on the heels of organizations at last year’s
set of annual VSO hearings criticizing VA for “dragging their feet” on medical
marijuana research.
In October, VA separately launched a new podcast about the future of veteran
health care, and the first episode of the series focuses on the healing
potential of psychedelics.
FDA officials also recently joined scientists at a public meeting on next steps
for conducting research to develop psychedelic medicines.
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