Cannabis Oil for Cancer Spurs Air Force’s Firing of Vietnam Vet
The Navy Times is reporting a 77-year-old Vietnam War veteran who has spent the last 22 years in the U.S. Air Force was terminated from his position as the dean of academics within the Air Force Special Operations School after superiors learned he was using cannabis oil to treat prostate cancer.
Mind you: This was non-psychoactive CBD oil, an extract that does not make you high.
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