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AlterNet reports [alternet.org]

[May 19, the US House of Representatives] approved an amendment to the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill that should ease access to medical marijuana for veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), serious wounds, and other debilitating conditions.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a similar measure in its version of the appropriations bill last month. And later [May 19], the Senate as a whole passed the appropriations bill.

[Current law] prohibits VA physicians from recommending medical marijuana, even in states where it is legal. [...] Even in states with [progressive] medical marijuana laws, veterans must go outside the VA system to get a recommendation or even discuss medical marijuana with their doctors.

[...]The two chambers will take up reconciling [the] differences between the two versions of the appropriations bills before sending them to the president.

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