medical marijuana

[johankriek]

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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?

 

[docB]

You are heading down a dangerous road on that one.

 

[Phishfood]

you haven't heard of NORML? National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws.

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391

 

[McGillGrad]

lol...

 

[mlw03]

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.

 

[Meatwad]

Alaska
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Maine
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington

Medical ganja is decriminalized in Maryland, so the worst penalty is a $100 fine.

 

[drivesmecraazee]

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

 

[OB1🤙]

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.

 

[docB]

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

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.

 

[Tired]

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?

. . . asks the anesthesiologist.

Stick to your Fentanyl, my friend. Isn't that the tradition in your field? 🙂

 

[mlw03]

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

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.

 

[drivesmecraazee]

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.

 

[docB]

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?

Isn't that exactly what he did?

 

[drivesmecraazee]

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

 

[McGillGrad]

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.

 

[docB]

I don't think he wants to start prescribing medical marijuana, he's just tallking, like a casual conversation

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.

 

[f_w]

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.

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.

 

[AbuJadenDO]

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

 

[f_w]

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"

A good case to illustrate the hypocrisy of 'medical marijuana'.