Vietnam Vets Cannabis Vs Booze Vas Wild Cannabis Stance
recovery"Individual doctors are going to have their own bias. I haven't had the issues." Boone on the VA's uneven stance on cannabis — some locations are supportive, some aren't. His public profile gives him protection most warfighters don't have. The bias is personal, not institutional.
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It depends on where you go. Some yes, some no, and still individual doctors are going to have their own bias. I haven't had the issues. A lot of you, I'm so open about it that, and I'm so public about it that, you know, when I walk in, they, they know I've got, I have that. And I also have a, you know, a pretty good voice. So if they treat me wrong, they know, they know they're going to hear about it. But so I don't, I haven't had that issue, but I've had some great doctors at the VA who just want you to explain your cannabis usage, and then they're like, okay, and make sure you watch out for this. Edibles are better than smokables. I mean, they're not giving me advice, but they're not pounding me on it. But I'm also not walking in there asking for stuff. If I was walking in there asking for Oxy and saying I smoke weed, well, then there would be a – they would have a problem with me. They would deny my opiates because I use cannabis, which I think also, you know, that needs to be reviewed. When I was in, I was traveling the country. I was traveling. This was years ago. This was when things were not as good. And I stopped in Columbus, Ohio, because I needed to get a refill on, of all things, opiates. And I just, I had to get a refill. And it was really weird because I was taking... hydrochloric, no, hydrochloric, fucking, what's the other one that starts with an H? Uh, let's see. Opiate. You said it earlier, I said it earlier, and I forgot it again. Well, anyway, it doesn't matter. Hydrocodone? They pushed me into, hydrochloric, yeah, they pushed me into morphine. They were like, we don't, we don't prescribe that in, in the dosage you want it, so you have to take morphine. And I was like, okay, great, and that's really when I get kind of coked on morphine. But, uh, I went in there and they said, Oh, it's no problem. Yeah. We'll refill your, you're a bit considered a visiting veteran. We'll refill your prescription, but you got to go through these, you know, that jumped through a couple of hoops first. And I was like, okay, no problem. And I, it's not like I ran out early or anything like that. It was just a normal refill. I wasn't in there med seeking. Cause I ran out early cause I took too much. It was a normal refill. Well, they, they asked for a urinalysis. And of course I gave me urinalysis, didn't think twice about it. And after, period of time you know a few hours they gave me my prescription i left then i get this call about a week later and there's this gal on the phone and she works in the in the whatever clinic i went through and she says mr cutler and i said yeah she says well this is the columbus ohio va your urinalysis came back positive for cannabis for marijuana and i said yeah i know i have no doubt it did i use marijuana i live in i live in nevada i'm a medical marijuana patient And she says, well, we don't do that here. You cannot come back to our VA unless you go through rehab. They would no longer treat me at that VA unless I went through rehab.
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