dr. fleming. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for one minute. mr. fleming: i thank my friend chairman. as a practicing physician, a veteran myself the way we approach health care is not to just allow any health care provider to do whatever he or she wants to do at the time. that's simply not the way health care works. so let's look specifically at the problem ptsd, which is one of the worst problems that we're dealing with today among veterans. what if have we found just in the last year? -- what have we found just in the last year? that smoking pot increases the psychotic episodes by a factor of two to four times normal. the conversion to schizophrenia, a permanent mental disorder, is enhanced by pot by a factor of two. double. so why in the world would we give a drug that is addictive, that is prohibited as schedule one, that is not accepted for any specific medical disease or disorder and it enhances psychosis and schizophrenia, why are we going to give that to our veterans, especially those with ptsd? that is just absolutely insane. with that i