does anyone know the rules as to what states docs can prescribe medical marijuana. Seems like it would be something people are willing to pay cash for?
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You are heading down a dangerous road on that one.
you haven't heard of NORML? National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391
lol...
as a general rule, one should probably avoid getting advice on how to legally prescribe pot from a discussion forum. if you're serious about this, talk to an attending who's been in the state for a few years, or a hospital attorney.
can anyone here explain me why are you warning this guy? what's so bad or dangerous about his question? why shouldn't he ask that here in the forum? I really don't understand
I'll speak from Cali experience.
Here, there's no such thing as a marijuana prescription. What there is, however, is a letter stating essentially "the literature supports the use of marijuana in this medical setting, and I vouch for the fact that Pt. X has this condition." On the letter it specifically states "THIS IS NOT A PRESCRIPTION FOR MARIJUANA."
I've never written such a letter, for the feds reading this site.
No cash is made by the "prescribing" doc, it all goes to the local cannabis club.
Here, there's no such thing as a marijuana prescription. What there is, however, is a letter stating essentially "the literature supports the use of marijuana in this medical setting, and I vouch for the fact that Pt. X has this condition." On the letter it specifically states "THIS IS NOT A PRESCRIPTION FOR MARIJUANA."
I've never written such a letter, for the feds reading this site.
No cash is made by the "prescribing" doc, it all goes to the local cannabis club.
Running a "practice" where patients pay cash for scripts, particularly narcotics or marijuana will quickly get one tossed in jail. Operations like this are called "pill mills" are are highly illegal.
. . . asks the anesthesiologist.
Stick to your Fentanyl, my friend. Isn't that the tradition in your field? 🙂
getting legal advice from an anonymous forum is a risky venture. if this guy is serious he needs to speak with an attorney that knows his/her state's laws, or at least an attending in that state familiar with using medical marijuana.
well...sure it's risky...but do you really think that if he really wanted to start prescribring medical weed he would ask for your advice? here in this forum? it's just a conversational topic...nothing serious.
Isn't that exactly what he did?
I don't think he wants to start prescribing medical marijuana, he's just tallking, like a casual conversation
It sounds like you do not have much street smarts because he is talking about being a drug dealer.
Ok. So what I'd say back, conversationally, is that lots of docs have come up with the same idea in the past. Running a cash only practice for patients who can only be treated with large quantities of heavy narcotics, MJ, 4% coke solution, etc. The state boards and the DEA are very much on to this game. Unless you want to have your future conversations through plexiglass you should avoid such a practice.
In a good number of cases, the motivation to run such a practice was that the provider had a medical condition that requires treatment with heavy narcotics, MJ, 4% coke solution etc.
in light of this great topic...the other day in the ED a 22 year old male comes in wiht abdominal pain and during the history taking he admits to chronic THC use and whips out his 'cannabis card' and when asked why he received this card he states "I got it because I have gastritis" to which I reply "you must be kidding me" and his follow up was "Look I have a partial college education and I can do internet searches and my research proves that marijuana is better for my gastritis than that cimetidine that my PMD was poisoning me with"
hahaha enough said
hahaha enough said
A good case to illustrate the hypocrisy of 'medical marijuana'.
