A military veteran is facing a stark reality: Stop using medical marijuana to treat his PTSD, or give up his kids.
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Advocates and veterans used Veterans Day as an opportunity to bring awareness to the physical and psychological suffering of vets and how medical marijuana could help them.
“Pot Over Pills” protestors camped out in front of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday to draw attention to the fact that nearly 2 dozen veterans die from suicide each day. The advocates wants the VA to recognize medical marijuana as a legitimate alternative to the often dangerous pills doled out to the nation’s heroes in this country, many of which can increase suicidal thoughts and feelings.
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The CRomnibus was pretty horrible because of all the garbage transactional conservatives-- Republicans and a few legislators from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- attached to it. All the House Members we respect voted against it, including, of course, Alan Grayson. I don't think it was easy for Grayson to vote NO.
Almost every Senate Republican-- even extremist obstructionists like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Richard Burr-- followed Bernie Sanders' lead last month to pass a bill to address the sordid situation at the V.A. It passed 93-3 with the only dissections from mentally unstable right-wingers Ron Johnson (R-WI), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-KKK) and Bob Corker (R-TN).The House Republicans can't quite get their shit together on the whole V.A.
Despite the July 4 tributes, millions of US soldiers and veterans are in serious trouble.
There are two major beneficiaries of the two major wars launched by the US government: one domestic and one foreign. The three major domestic arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon have delivered record-shattering returns to their investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half. The Israeli regime is the overwhelming foreign beneficiary of the war, expanding its territory through its dispossession of Palestinians and positioning itself as the regional hegemon.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate Veteran's Affairs Committee, and one of the most persistent and effective advocates for veterans anywhere in government, was on Face The Nation this morning. He was more constrained in his response to the V.A. scandal that Ken was in his report Friday evening after Shinseki had been forced to fall on his sword.
by KenSo Shinseki is gone as VA Sec, no doubt inevitably, and possibly deservedly, though we'll probably never know, since the psychotic lying scumbags who have been leading the assault on him not only are incapable of speaking a word of truth but have now effectively substituted their psychotic lying scumbag agenda for any possible consideration of discovery of truth and fixing it.
