If you are a veteran and you use VA medical facilities please be advised. If you give a urine sample for just a routine urinalysis (UA) you can be tested for THC. You will not be advised of this. Your doctor will usually order it up to see if you are compliant.
This usually occurs if you are receiving pain medication from the VA pharmacy. You do not have a right to privacy according to their rules. When you submit a UA they consider it an implied consent. Because the VA hospitals and clinics are Federal entities they fall under federal laws and guidelines. But, they do not have a valid chain of custody and most likely the test is qualitative not quantitative which means it was probably just a dip stick test. Be advised, they will pull your meds but they do not have the right to take away any of your benefits.
You do not have any recourse except to seek treatment else where.
For those of you who need a doctor to sign a prescription for medical marijuana the VA doctors are not allowed to write for pot so don't ask.
It is amazing that a person would fight and die for his/her country and come home and be treated like a piece of crap. They don't want you to have pain medication so when you get sick and tired of the BS you can either drink booze, smoke pot, or order drugs from an online pharmacy.
So much for freedom...
This usually occurs if you are receiving pain medication from the VA pharmacy. You do not have a right to privacy according to their rules. When you submit a UA they consider it an implied consent. Because the VA hospitals and clinics are Federal entities they fall under federal laws and guidelines. But, they do not have a valid chain of custody and most likely the test is qualitative not quantitative which means it was probably just a dip stick test. Be advised, they will pull your meds but they do not have the right to take away any of your benefits.
You do not have any recourse except to seek treatment else where.
For those of you who need a doctor to sign a prescription for medical marijuana the VA doctors are not allowed to write for pot so don't ask.
It is amazing that a person would fight and die for his/her country and come home and be treated like a piece of crap. They don't want you to have pain medication so when you get sick and tired of the BS you can either drink booze, smoke pot, or order drugs from an online pharmacy.
So much for freedom...