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In a debate on the House floor over the Department of Veterans Affairs policies on medical marijuana, Representative John Fleming (R-LA) warned colleagues that allowing veterans to smoke pot could turn them psychotic or schizophrenic.
As a practicing physician and a veteran myself, Fleming stated during the April 29 legislative proceedings, the way we approach health care is not to just allow any healthcare provider to do whatever he or she wants to do at the time. That is simply not the way health care works.
According to Fleming, letting doctors and patients make their own decisions about marijuana could be dangerous, which is why the federal government needs to step in.
Smoking pot increases psychotic episodes by a factor of two to four times normal, Fleming elaborates. The conversion to schizophrenia, a permanent mental disorder, is enhanced by pot by a factor of two double. Why in the world would we give a drug that is addictive, that is prohibited under Schedule I, that is not accepted for any specific mental disease or disorder and enhances psychosis and schizophrenia, why are we going to give that to our veterans, especially those with PTSD? That is just absolutely insane.
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), concerned that VA health care providers are prohibited by law from completing forms brought by their patients seeking recommendations or opinions regarding a veterans participation in a State medical marijuana program, shot back at Fleming with his own pot policy assessments. A staunch cycling advocate, Blumenauer was wearing his signature bicycle lapel pin at the time.
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tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Malraiders
(444 posts)Willie again.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)Next time you hear some RWer talking about smaller government, show them this shit. They want control over our private decisions but they don't want to let government help us when we really need it. It's twisted as hell.
tridim
(45,358 posts)You are a dinosaur, marked for extinction because you have zero empathy, zero intelligence and zero facts.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Every drug commercial has a list run down of every possible side effect including the word "death" which can't be said for Marijuana.