Mission Statement
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access is committed to protecting the rights of veteran patients and healthcare professionals by advocating for safe and legal access to marijuana(cannabis) for all appropriate therapeutic uses and to encourage research on marijuana as a treatment alternative.
Goals
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To serve veterans as an educational resource on medical marijuana and access, and to garner their support on the issue.
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To encourage veterans organizations to support veterans’ rights to safely access medical marijuana and to issue policy statements that publicly voice this support.
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To work with prominent national veterans organizations through outreach campaigns that promote more compassionate legislative and administrative policies toward medical marijuana and it’s access.
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To encourage legislation to end federal prohibition of medical marijuana use.
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Incorporated in 2007, Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access (VMMA) is the only organization in the United States that advocates for veterans' rights to access medical marijuana for therapeutic purposes. VMMA also works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana use, which many veterans believe to be conviction and incarceration.
VMMA encourages all legislative bodies to endorse veterans' rights to use medical marijuana therapeutically and responsibly, and is working to end all prohibitions associated with such use.
VMMA is working to preserve the long established doctor-patient relationship to privacy rights and to safely discuss medical marijuana use within the V.A. healthcare system without fear of punishment or retribution.
Dr. David Ostrow, MD, Ph.D., FAPA - Bio
Director,
Ostrow & Associates
Dr. Robert Melamede, Ph.D - Bio
Associate Professor and Biology Chairman (ret)
Biology Department, University of Colorado
Dr. Tom O'Connell, M.D. - Bio
Researcher
Weblog
Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN
Substance Abuse Consultant,
Howardsville, VA
Al Byrne-Lcdr, SC, USN (ret)
Son of cancer patient,
Howardsville, VA
Dr. Phillip Leveque, DO, Ph.D - Bio
World War II U.S. Marine Infantryman
Forensic Toxicologist and Pharmacologist
Martin H. Chilcutt, Founder and Executive Director
mhchilcutt@gmail.com
Bio
Michael Krawitz, Outreach Director
miguet@infionline.net
Bio
Andrew White,
Outreach Assistant
dreagen@gmail.com
Bio
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