Kind of an aside, but it takes a lot of energy to respond to rants like this. Maybe that's on me, but if you're a vet then I'd assume you'd know how difficult i

Kind of an aside, but it takes a lot of energy to respond to rants like this. Maybe that's on me, but if you're a vet then I'd assume you'd know how difficult it is to get anything changed at the VA much less lobbying to change an incorrectly scheduled drug. What my point was is that it's incredibly hypocritical for the VA to have a history of denying veterans medical care over marijuana and then they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar with McKinsey about opioids - an epidemic that they had plenty of data on from the DOD. When I got out in 2012 the DOD base hospitals were chalk full of addicts that their hospital system had created due to over prescription and then subsequently processing people out. I postured whether they had an even bigger picture because it's also the VAs job to track people when they get out; the exception I made was that healthcare and the VA are somewhat separate but related entities. I do realize the marijuana policy has changed drastically, but it's not reason to forget the last decade.