Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate everyone's being here today and presenting to us. Thank you.
I read here a paragraph from the Office of the Auditor General. He said, “A well-defined approach to monitoring drug utilization is also important.” He went on to say:
Particular attention should be paid to the utilization of some high-risk drugs which need to be adequately monitored in order to understand the trends and their use.
My question to the Department of Veterans Affairs is about a concern I have with the reported high use of medicinal marijuana within the Veterans Affairs department. First of all, to be covered, medicinal marijuana obviously must be on your drug formulary.
Can you give us some specifics on that particular drug—the stats, perhaps, on the increase from the years before? Also, are other drugs being less utilized because of the high increase of medicinal marijuana? If you can answer those, that would be great.