I don't think it's a case of choosing to endorse medical cannabis for veterans or not recommending it at all because all we have is anecdotal evidence. There are massive amounts of anecdotal stories out there, but that's not what your committee needs to look at. You need to look at good-quality observational studies that are quite legitimate.
As Dr. Shackelford says, you don't need to be a scientist and you don't need to go onto Medline and do your search. You can go on a simple website like projectcbd.org and probably get all the information you need about medical cannabis as a legitimate treatment for a whole number of different conditions. There are some very reasonably done observational studies that unquestionably are acceptable guidelines for physicians and for bureaucrats as well to be able to make judgments about the patients/citizens they have to look out for.
I don't think it's an issue that you don't have enough evidence. There is enough. When looking at evidence, though, one needs to be extremely critical. Sometimes that takes some training. I looked at a PTSD and veterans study today that somebody sent me. It was just a lot of garbage. It was a highly biased mix-up of information, confusing medical cannabis with recreational cannabis, meaning high-THC cannabis—who knows what the person was getting—versus medically prescribed cannabis with CBD in it, which is so much safer. It was mixing up nabilone and other prescription pseudo-cannabis drugs or cannabinoid prescription drugs and cannabis itself.
If you look at who is writing it and who is funding the study, you can tease these things apart. That's what I did before I decided to do this full time. You could commit yourself to the same, if you wanted to.