A speech from the Capitol Hill indicated that the federal government might be becoming more open to letting physicians working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to talk to their patients about using medical marijuana. Albeit, some Veterans Affairs hospitals are not allowing any suggestions about medical marijuana.
Dr. Sue Sisley is a doctor living in Phoenix who has been allowed to research marijuana and its effects on PTSD. Not too long ago, she spoke at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center so that she may try to tell some doctors about the studies she has been conducting. But the hospital did not care to listen, although Sisley states that some of the physicians have patients that would truly do better if they were a part of the study.
“The notion that the Phoenix VA hospital refuses to allow that information to be shared with their medical staff is really shameful,” Sisley said. “The highest density of veterans who meet those criteria are at the Phoenix VA hospital.”
Even though medical marijuana is allowed in Arizona, doctors of the VA are not allowed to recommend medical marijuana to their patients because of the rules of the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, there is a lot of pressure entering from federal lawmakers to change the rules so that veterans can stop medicating themselves with addictive prescription pills when they could be using medical marijuana, which has proven to effective in treating PTSD.
Even then, Dr. Samuel Aguayo, associate chief of staff for the Phoenix VA hospital, stated that the choice to prevent Sisley from sharing her information with the doctors was so that the hospital would not go against rules set by voters in Washington D.C.
“VA medical staff are not authorized to make a decision on whether marijuana and marijuana research is appropriate for veterans,” Aguayo said.
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