One way to improve Veteran health care is to end ‘reefer madness’

There’s a lot of confusion when it comes to medical marijuana. Confusion is fine when it breeds curiosity, research, and progress. With medical marijuana, however, the confusion is resulting in a fallback to stigmas, to “reefer madness” where scientific findings are replaced with “drugs are bad,” “marijuana is a gateway drug,” and “all drug users are criminal.”

This madness is hurting our health-care systems, it’s hurting patients, and it’s hurting veterans.