David Roe: “I have--look, every single person up there I think wants medical marijuana, cannabinoids studied. The question is how…”

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

It is not a threat to the VA, it is a lifeline to the VA.

We have to reach out and try to find those 14 who never get to the VA, never get the care.

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.