Bipartisan congressional lawmakers are making another push to provide protections for military veterans who use medical marijuana in legal states, as well as doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) who issue recommendations to allow participation in such programs.
Two amendments to enact the reform have been filed for the Fiscal Year 2024 spending bill covering Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies (MilCon/VA).
The text of the amendments are identical, but they’re being sponsored by different sets of lawmakers.
One comes from the co-chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Dave Joyce (R-FL) and Barbara Lee (D-CA).
The other is being sponsored by Reps. Greg Steube (R-FL), Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Dina Titus (D-NV).
“I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard veterans tell me that medical marijuana saved their life,” Blumenauer told Marijuana Moment on Wednesday. “Our bipartisan amendment is a critically overdue step that will benefit millions of our veterans who deserve equal access as their civilian counterparts to state-legal marijuana programs.”
While it’s not clear why two different bipartisan groups of lawmakers filed duplicate versions of the same amendment, they would each add language the base spending
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