Democrats are accusing Republicans of playing politics with a package of veterans bills spearheaded by Montana Sen. Jon Tester.
The road for veterans’ cannabis research — and potentially control of the Senate — runs through Montana. is the lead author of a bill to increase research into cannabis for veterans. He’s also one of the Senate’s most at-risk Democrats, running in a state Donald Trump won by 16 percentage points in 2020., as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is charged with ousting Tester.
Some lawmakers, lobbyists and advocates now suggest that the Montana Senate election increased the unforeseen opposition to the veterans package. They also fear that the brouhaha over the cannabis portion of the package, and Daines’ vote against it, could bode poorly for the financially ailing cannabis industry’s No. 1 priority: TheWhen Tester ran for reelection in 2018, many of his campaign ads touted his work to support a beloved constituency: veterans.released in May 2018.
Vietnam vet Mike Lawson — a Montana resident and Tester supporter who participated in the senator’s 2018 campaign ad — says veterans in the state are paying attention to the final fate of the VA package that includes the cannabis research bill. Lawson says he knows a number of veterans in Montana who say marijuana has made a huge difference for their quality of life, and doesn’t understand why the VA wouldn’t want to do more research on it.
“The argument that there was no time to have amendments is not factually accurate,” said Tom Rodgers, a Montanan and member of the Blackfeet Nation who works on veterans, cannabis and Native American issues. He advocated for a number of bills in the package, and said that both Moran and the bill’s GOP lead co-sponsor, when asked in May if the Montana Senate election had any impact on the bill’s failure to advance, told POLITICO: “I don’t think we need to talk about it — everybody knows that.
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