The people accepting these contracts are doctoral educated middle aged professionals who are taking >1 million/year to deal illegal recreational drugs to recreational drug users. The docs who do this know exactly what they're doing, why they're doing it, and what they're risking. No one is being taken advantage of.
I am doctoral educated and middle aged, but i still think people that join are naive. because i was about to join. i had no idea, but i thought it was legal and okay--until i talked to a few people about it more about federal vs state laws. if you are in your right mind you wouldn't bother with anything illegal as an MD or DO, even at the federal level.
Additionally, from what i've been reading, now NPs and PAs are fighting to be able to Rx marijuana. They really don't know what they're getting themselves into.
i guess to give it to a cancer patient who is about to die is controversial and more would lean toward giving it; however, i've seen people with minor back pain, who are not even on vicodin, get medical marijuana licenses to smoke it. some doctors give it out like candy.
educate yourselves:"Cannabis remains illegal throughout the United States and is not approved for prescription as medicine, although 18 states - Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington - as well as the District of Columbia approve and regulate its medical use. The Federal government continues to enforce its prohibition in these states."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis_in_the_United_States
it is just like rx ing oxycodone or opana or percocet like candy. i used to do it for patients, thinking nothing of it, most docs didn't even care either, until the place i worked at got shut down by the fbi. then i stopped. i did not know any better. now i dont rx that anymore.
