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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Wake-up! on June 13, 2018, 07:53:09 PM

Title: The VA Pushes Pills . . . . . At What Cost?
Post by: Wake-up! on June 13, 2018, 07:53:09 PM
A Veteran has been receiving 9,855 prescription pills every year from the VA for an unknown illness contracted in Afganistan. He has gone to Colorado to smoke pot and feels much better when he does.

Read the article at;  https://www.naturalblaze.com/2018/06/combat-vet-posts-shocking-picture-of-how-many-pills-he-has-to-take-because-cannabis-is-illegal.html

How many of those pills might not be needed if he could grow and smoke pot just like he can grow and eat tomatoes? How many billions of dollars might the taxpayer be spared if the VA was truly responsible to the Veterans' health issues?