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MOST MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES SUPPORT ALLOWING VA
DOCTORS TO RECOMMEND MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS
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Ben Adlin
Active duty military personnel, veterans and their family members support
allowing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors to recommend medical
marijuana and psychedelics to patients if they believe it would provide a
benefit, according to results of a survey from Ohio State University (OSU).
Researchers polled service members, veterans, their family members and
non-military respondents over a few weeks in late August and early September,
the report says. All told, 1,168 individuals participated, including 315 active
and veteran military members, 426 members of military families and 427
non-military individuals. The goal was to assess the differing likelihoods
across the categories of respondents to support various statements about medical
marijuana and psychedelics as available treatment options.
“Given the prevalence of health issues within the veteran community and the need
for a wide range of treatment options, some researchers have started to explore
whether and how veteran populations should have access to alternative treatment
options such as marijuana and psychedelics,” authors wrote in the preprint
paper, which was published this month by OSU law school’s Drug Enforcement and
Policy Center and has not been peer-reviewed. “Studies of veteran views on these
issues, however, have not closely explored how veteran perspectives on certain
drug issues compare directly to those in their immediate and broader community.”
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The survey participants, drawn from the volunteer American Population Panel,
were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with four statements about marijuana
and psychedelics:
1. Marijuana/psychedelics can be an effective treatment for various medical
conditions.
2. A doctor should be legally allowed to recommend marijuana/psychedelics if
the doctor believes the patient could benefit from medical
marijuana/psychedelics, even without FDA approval.
3. A doctor should be legally allowed to recommend marijuana/psychedelics, but
only after it has received an approval by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
4. Because of the unique hardships and health conditions experienced by
veterans, U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be legally allowed to
recommend marijuana/psychedelics to veterans if the doctor believes the
patient could benefit from marijuana/psychedelics.
Strong majorities of all three surveyed groups agreed the substances can be
effective treatments, with even more sizable proportions saying that Veterans
Administration (VA) doctors should be able to legally recommend the substances
to patients if they believe they would provide some benefit.
All three groups also preferred the idea of doctors generally being able to
recommend marijuana or psychedelics for patients with or without approval by the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fewer respondents agreed with the idea that
it should only be allowed after FDA approval—a process that could take years
even if the substances are rescheduled.
One notable finding, authors wrote, is that the responses indicate that active
and veteran military members, despite favoring marijuana and psychedelics reform
on balance, “remain somewhat less supportive in their viewpoints about use of
historically illicit drugs as a medical treatment when compared to their family
members and the general population.”
The only question in which military members and veterans led the groups in
agreement was whether doctors should be able to recommend the substances “only
after it has received an approval” from FDA. Half of veterans agreed with that
statement regarding marijuana, while 48 percent agreed with respect to
psychedelics.
Statements that didn’t hinge on FDA approval, meanwhile, straw stronger support
among military family members and the general public.
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforcement and Policy
Center
In Congress, meanwhile, lawmakers are at odds over whether to keep provisions in
a large-scale federal spending bill that would allow VA doctors to issue medical
marijuana recommendations to veterans living in legal states.
That reform would achieve the same policy outcome as a standalone bill that was
refiled on the House side in March by Congressional Cannabis Caucus co-chairs
Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Brian Mast (R-FL).
The Veterans Equal Access Act has been introduced several times in recent
years with bipartisan support—and moved through committee and floor approval a
number of times—but has yet to be enacted. Blumenauer, who is retiring at the
end of this Congress, has made the modest reform a priority even as he’s pushed
for broader legalization.
Congressional lawmakers in November, meanwhile, held a first-ever hearing on
psychedelic-assisted therapy for military veterans.
In August, bipartisan congressional lawmakers expressed “deep concern” over a
recently updated VA marijuana directive that continues to prohibit its doctors
from making medical cannabis recommendations to veterans living in states where
it’s legal.
They said the decision to maintain the “harmful policy” on cannabis
recommendations is especially “alarming” in the context of VA’s latest clinical
guidance on PTSD, which strongly recommends against using medical cannabis as a
treatment option.
“Many veterans already report using cannabis for medical purposes as a
substitute for prescription drugs and their side effects,” they said, adding
that a recent survey of veterans who use cannabis found that they report
improved quality of life and reduced use of certain prescription drugs,
including opioids.
VA has updated its cannabis guidance before, adding language in its 2017 version
that explicitly encouraged VA doctors to discuss veterans’ marijuana use, for
example.
In April, Senate Republicans separately blocked a procedural vote to advance a
bill to the floor that would promote VA research into the therapeutic effects of
marijuana for military veterans with conditions such as post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD).
The medical cannabis recommendations amendment was one of relatively few drug
policy reform measures to make it through the GOP-controlled House Rules
Committee, which has consistently blocked such proposals from bipartisan members
this session.
However, it did advance a Republican-led amendment to the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require Department of Defense (DOD) funding
of clinical trials exploring the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelics
for active duty military service members. Following bicameral negotiations, the
reform was ultimately included in the final deal that President Joe Biden signed
into law last week.
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Ben Adlin, a senior editor at Marijuana Moment, has been covering cannabis and
other drug policy issues professionally since 2011. He was previously a senior
news editor at Leafly, an associate editor at the Los Angeles Daily Journal and
a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs. He lives in Washington State.
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