Press Room
With several more states eyeing legalizing marijuana, will Indiana follow?
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Lawmakers in several states are pushing forward proposals this week aimed at legalizing marijuana, including in New Jersey. On Monday, lawmakers began discussing a package of measures before a standing-room-only crowd. In Indiana, both...
Amid new push, some Hoosier veterans say they’re leaving Indiana for legal medical marijuana
INDIANAPOLIS -- Terry Moore sat inside the Indiana Statehouse one day in October and just listened, absorbing hours of testimony about whether Indiana should legalize medical marijuana. "Cannabis refugees," he said in an interview with CBS4. "I'm in exile. I want to...
The American Legion, Dept. of Indiana Press Conference on Medical Cannabis Research
The American Legion, Department of Indiana hosted a press conference Thursday, November 9th, concerning The American Legion’s support of medical cannabis research. The conference features remarks from Jade Griffin, mother of U.S. Army Veteran Mason Johnson who was...
About Our Organization
The Situation
“Within the US one person every 20 minutes dies of either an accidental and or intentional overdose to prescription pain medication. Doing the math that’s 3 every hour, 72 a day and so forth. It has been report that our Veterans are overdosing at twice the rate of civilians…. in other words 2 of the 3 causalities within the above hour time frame are Veterans. This shouldn’t be, nor does it have too, especially within our great State of Indiana.”
Our Mission
To inform, educate, lobby, support and maintain legislations for the “legal” Medical use of Cannabis within the State of Indiana.
In addition, when we have fought and won for the legalization of Medical Cannabis, HVMC will work with our legislators to continuously review, revise and update legislation as may be necessary from time to time. i.e. recognizing residents from out of State that are Medical Cannabis patients …and so forth.
On a national level HVMC will fight to petition our Federal Government to reduce Cannabis from a Schedule I (fraudulently noted) to a Schedule II rating under the Substance Control Act of 1970 and to petition the Veterans Affairs in making policies to more freely prescribe and recommend Cannabis to our Veterans in lieu of the fatal prescription practices we have been so accustomed too.
