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Derrick Van Orden: “We should look into these therapies using cannabis.”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Derrick Van Orden Underscores Suicide Prevention at Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:12

But I'm unwilling to go to another damn funeral because we didn't try everything we could. Same reason that we. I think we should be using the hbot. Same reason I think that We should look into these therapies using cannabis. I'm not sold on them completely. But if this can be a way that we can expand the universe of treatments for our veterans who we owe our freedom to and we can save one of them, then we should be doing it. (03:12–03:16)

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