I didn't see in the article where it states that she is still on AD. From the OP:
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I for one, support the use of medicinal/recreational MJ for a number of reasons. From anxiety to cancer, it has proven time and time again to be useful. It's a plant for Christ's sake, an
unrefined plant. This "Reefer Madness" view toward it is ridiculous and needs to stop.
The federal government has proven that it is not capable of making logical decisions, and the fact that it has not yet been taken off of the schedule one list is insane. To put an unrefined plant in the same category as cocaine, meth,
HEROIN (opiates are being issued out like candy to Vets), and LSD is extremely short sighted. Maybe the fact that there is a higher prevalence of MJ than the other drugs that keeps the DEA and its ilk in business could be the reason for its continued prohibition. Follow the money.
Quick story, my great aunt was suffering from stage 4 cancer. All the meds she was on didn't help with her insomnia, nausea, appetite loss, and other associated pains. She then got cleared by her MD to use these cannabis pills which cost $90.00 apiece. She couldn't afford those for very long and had to stop. The pain returned, her appetite disappeared again, and she withered away in a few months in agony. Had she had access to a vaporizer and clean MJ with excellent quality control methods (as they do in places where growing is legal), she may have had an easier life leading to her eventual departure from this earth. It broke my fucking heart to see her go through that.
Just throwing this out there, but let’s say they did allow recreational use of marijuana by the troops. Does anyone honestly believe it would hinder performance more so than troops getting shit faced drunk, fighting, and all other associate malfeasance that comes along with alcohol abuse? There will be declines in performance probably, but no different than those who now abuse alcohol in excess. Those troops are chaptered out accordingly anyway. Same with MJ if it came to that. It is also a personal preference, and if it was legal, that doesn't mean the U.S. Armed Forces will degenerate into useless pacifists. Freedom fighters have, and always will exist here.
BLUF, Alcohol is by far more dangerous and harmful to your health than pot, and we need serious reform at the federal level on this. Of course, as always, YMMV.