'Amazing floor speech' from Rep. Ernie Otten leads change for vets, first responders to get medical marijuana

'Amazing floor speech' from Rep. Ernie Otten leads change for vets, first responders to get medical marijuana

PIERRE, S.D. Ernie Otten’s speech was about tradeoffs. Though the medical basis of cannabis, he admitted, may not be well established, its ability to induce an appetite or a good night’s sleep is self-evident. For first responders and veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, Otten said, there are a few options for avoiding sleepless nights pills that “get ‘em so strung out they don’t know up from down;” a “good quart of bourbo…