If her state board does nothing to stop her, this would just add to my already jaded belief that state boards really don't do much at all.
well state boards reall only go after the most egregious of cases....
also, and a point nobody has brought up, what exactly is she doing that the state board could go after?
1) She has a valid medical license. She certainly doesnt have a high level of training, having only completed one or two years of residency in family medicine. But hey, that's not the rule in california to get a medical license. And given that she has a medical license, it doesn't appear that she is doing anything really outside the scope of her very limited training level(iow she doesnt appear to be doing much but screening for med marijuana)
2) As for the med marijuana, regardless of how one feels about it....it is legal in california and these clinics are everywhere. Additionally, the law is written(and the standard of care has been defined as such) that the dx that qualify for a med mj card can be very vague. If the state board were to go after her for her liberal use of mj cards, they would have to both go after hundreds of docs there as well as maybe amend the law/standard of care
3) As for the other stuff- revealing photos, a tacky website, etc....the state board has no grounds to go after someone based on those things(at least in the way she is doing them)
So the more I think about it, the clearer it is that the state board would have no standing here. And you can't say she is doing anything not out in the open. She's very famous and has given tons of interviews.
I tend to look at it like this: Here is someone who has a number of positive attributes(great looking, very outgoing likely, saavy business lady) who probably also truly believes that marijuana has a role in helping people physically. Whether we agree with that or not, the state of california has spoken and that's the way it is. So she's doing what she believes and using her skills(photogenic, outgoing, business sense) to be fabulously successful at it.......
if she were promoting herself as an expert in medicine or whatever, I may feel differently about her. But from her website it is clear pretty much all she does is screen patients for medical mariuana cards(and Im sure pretty much everyone gets one). It doesnt appear she is writing for controlled substances for example, or functioning as a pill mill. She plays by the rules and is incredibly successful at it.....
