About the VMMA

Mission Statement:

Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access is committed to protecting the rights of veteran patients and health care 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:

  • To serve veterans as an educational resource on medical marijuana and access, and to garner their support on the issue.
  • To encourage veterans organizations to support veterans’ rights to safely access medical marijuana and to issue policy statements that publicly voice this support.
  • 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.
  • To encourage legislation to end federal prohibition of medical marijuana use.
  • Make the VA's written policy which allows veteran patients to use medical marijuana/cannabis where such use is legal by state law public information to all veterans. We are currently working with the VA General Counsel and Ethics Committee to get this accomplished. Several VA Medical Center directors have already put the VA policy in writing. You may write a letter directly to your VA medical center you use, and ask your director to put the VA policy in writing for all patients. The policy has been established by the VA that it is acceptable for veteran patients registered in their state program to test positive for marijuana/cannabis. As usual, the VA bureaucracy is moving very slowly on doing this.

Advisory Board

Martin H. Chilcutt
Retired Psychologist
mhchilcutt@gmail.com

Dr. David Ostrow, MD, Ph.D., FAPA
Director, Ostrow & Associates

Dr. Robert Melamede, Ph.D
Associate Professor and Biology Chairman (ret)
Biology Department, University of Colorado

Dr. Tom O'Connell, M.D.
Researcher
Dr. Tom O'Connell's 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
World War II U.S. Marine Infantryman
Forensic Toxicologist and Pharmacologist

John Targowski, Attorney

Law Office of John Targowski, P.C.
310 East Michigan Ave Ste 501
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269) 290 5606
www.targowskilaw.com

Staff

Michael Krawitz, Director - Bio
miguet@infionline.net

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Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access
1414 Low Road
Kalamazoo, MI 49008