Military and Medical Marijuana

So a buddy of mine who happens to be in the army reserves was wondering if he could get a medical

marijuana card in California (that's where hes from)
would the doctors deny him a medical marijuana card if they knew he was in the army or would they not even care?
and what are the chances the military would be notified of this if he were to acquire a medical marijuana card

thanks!

the military will not respect that dr note.
feds dont give a shit and will bust him down and take his checks for a while.... and keep him the 4 years and boot him out without gi bill

he should wait till he is out.

I agree. I am retired with service in the Army and Air Force. The nature of the job in essence is to break things and kill people when needed. Not to mention the dangers of working around the equipment. I know for a fact some legal medications can cause a change in ones duty status. If one is seeing a psychiatrist for anything other than marriage counseling, your security clearance can be temporary suspended.
Some anti-depressant drugs and powerful pain killers can also cause restricted duty or a duty change. Drinking an alcoholic beverage 8 hours prior to duty is a violation and for flight status it is a lot longer than 8 hours prior I believe.
I am obviously a pro medical MJ person, but it is also a very big safety issue. That said, I have never seen any service member who had duty issues due to MJ use...The only problems I have ever seen is failure of the piss test. I have seen plenty of problems with hung over or still slightly intoxicated service members and that puts them and those around them at a safety risk. Smoking tobacco and having problems with the physical requirements has also caused issues...and I will plead guilty to that myself.

if im not mistaken, if you are enlisted, you technically are not a resident of any state, therefore you could not get a state medical card

so what if my boy did 4 tours for 8 years and was wounded and now he's out, but still getting checks.
would you say it would be ok for him to go get a card? also from california

Your buddy can get a card in California and the doctor won't give two shits about his military status, it will never even come up unless he mentions it. Now as far as the reserve commitment, the card and the reserves don't mix well. He will if found out be subjected to (most likely) an Article 15 which is non-judicial punishment which means it's the militarys way of punsihing you without any trial. After that he will most likely be discharged for the good of the service. He will loose pay with the Article 15.

Now, if he was wounded and is receiving VA disability it becomes a different issue. He can use with the card but he has to be careful with his interactions with the VA. Normally a disabled veteran that is receiving VA disability is not on a reserve commitment. Don't mistake inactive reserves with active reserves. Everyone that serves for the most part does an "inactive reserve commitment" after discharge which means zippo! The only way you do anything is if you are recalled back to active duty. And at that point he shouldn't be worried about smoking pot because he is going somewhere to get shot at again...

ImTheFireMan said:

so what if my boy did 4 tours for 8 years and was wounded and now he's out, but still getting checks.
would you say it would be ok for him to go get a card? also from california

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he can as long as he is no longer getting piss tests by uncle sam