Donna Campbell is a licensed and practicing physician who represents a suburb of San Antonio in the Texas Senate. A Republican, Campbell has also been involved in Texas\u2019s long, slow, and often onerous and arduous journey towards legalizing cannabis for medical purposes.<\/p>\n
Campbell\u2019s resume on the cannabis question is, in a word, diverse. It includes turns\u00a0as both a reluctant and unreliable advocate<\/a> \u2014 and now,\u00a0according to recent reports<\/a>, as a disingenuous adversary who saw fit to lie about veteran suicides in order to block expanded access for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n Earlier this spring, Texas lawmakers voted to expand access to the state\u2019s extremely limited medical cannabis oil program. Previously available only to sufferers of intractable epilepsy \u2014 for whom access was no small feat even then \u2014\u00a0medical cannabis with little to no THC<\/a>\u00a0is now also available for sufferers of terminal cancer, autism and multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n PTSD<\/a>, a malady common among the millions of people who have become military veterans over the past 20 years of combating terrorism, might have been included in the bill.<\/p>\n At least that was the plan, before Campbell made a very bold claim during a debate on the matter \u2014 that 70% of the military veterans who have taken their own lives had THC in their systems.<\/p>\n Suicide by current and former members of the military is a very big deal. According to one regularly cited statistic,\u00a0one pulled from Veterans Administration data, as many as 20 military veterans commit suicide every day<\/a>. In normal countries, this would an epidemic, a public health crisis. In ours, it\u2019s an excuse to not legalize medical cannabis.<\/p>\n \u201cA study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70% had THC,\u201d\u00a0the senator and doctor said, according to PolitFact.com.<\/a><\/p>\n A bold claim \u2014 and utterly baseless, as outlets including the Austin American Statesman pointed out. Campbell did not indicate the source for her claim because there is none. She made it up, out of whole cloth. Sen. Donna Campbell, M.D., lied outright in the Texas Senate, on record, in order to limit access to medical cannabis in Texas.<\/p>\n Why did she do this? Politifact tried to contact the senator several times before publishing an item rating her testimony as \u201cnot accurate\u201d and making \u201ca ridiculous claim,\u201d its still-euphemistic terminology for an outright lie, a Texas-sized whopper, a dump-truck full of bullsh*t. So we can\u2019t know, but we do know that Campbell appears to have it out for military veterans.<\/p>\n During a 2016 committee hearing on this exact same matter \u2014 allowing veterans with PTSD to access cannabis, a drug that many military veterans say is what brings them relief \u2014 Campbell stopped a military veteran mid-sentence.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already legalized medical cannabis,\u201d said the senator, offering the beatific, \u201cyou are an idiot, sir\u201d smile reserved for someone asking directions in a Walmart.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah\u2026 but it doesn\u2019t help veterans,\u201d the veteran responded, according to the Houston Press.\u00a0\u201cIt helps intractable epileptic patients only. So\u2026\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cWell,\u201d Campbell interrupted again, \u201cthat is a subject for another day.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, and a subject that Campbell, a fabulist, has no compunction about compromising her reputation in order to thwart.<\/p>\n Military veterans as well as secular humanists have descended on Campbell\u2019s Facebook page to call her out because in addition to being a dishonest doctor, Campbell is also apparently a\u00a0very proud Christian<\/a>, who frequently posts this or that biblical reference. We seem to recall something in the Ten Commandments about this sort of thing. Then again, maybe Campbell has her own version of the Bible, too.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong>\u00a0where do you think the senator got her information?<\/p>\n The post Texas Lawmaker Lies about Pot & Veteran Suicides to Block Medical Access<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Donna Campbell is a licensed and practicing physician who represents a suburb of San Antonio in the Texas Senate. A Republican, Campbell has also been involved in Texas\u2019s long, slow, and often onerous and arduous journey towards legalizing cannabis for medical purposes. Campbell\u2019s resume on the cannabis question is, inContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,53,139,4848,339,726,210],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36932,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36931\/revisions\/36932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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