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Congress Tells the VA to Embrace Weed and Shrooms for Veterans
As summer appropriations season kicked off, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee quietly dropped a bombshell in its report on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilConVA) spending bill: Maybe let veterans use cannabis and psychedelics. The July 21, 2025 report acknowledges that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has concurred with a Department of Health and Human Services…