But by the end of World War II, cannabis medicine had disappeared: The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 outlawed the plant. It’s “high time” for a change. —Pearson Crosby, staff sergeant, US Marine Corps Michael Krawitz is executive director of Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access. As a result, when the VA enabled veterans who live in medical marijuana states to use cannabis, it created a conflict. The VA’s medical marijuana policy (VHA Directive 2011-004) expired in January 2016. However, there are still far too many veterans living in states where access to medical cannabis is limited or nonexistent.
Our first president probably wasn’t aware of the many medicinal properties of cannabis. He probably never smoked the stuff either. Nonetheless, George Washington was an enthusiastic hemp farmer. But if he’d known how important cannabis would be to the well-being of future military veterans—and how the US government would one day outlaw the plant entirely—the Bill of Rights might very well have included a few clauses about the right to grow, as well as the right to share.
Many of America’s early settlers brought cannabis extracts and tinctures with them from the Old World. Mainstream medicine recognized and began marketing cannabis after it...
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