The risks of prescribing medical marijuana

I don’t think it’s worth the risk. Look at what these so-called “pot docs” have to go through:

Medical marijuana advocates estimate that 1,500 doctors have authorized pot for at least one patient, most of them oncologists or AIDS specialists. But the vast majority of recommendations have come from a close-knit cadre of about 15 self-appointed specialists, the so-called “pot docs” who charge $150 and up to walk what the California Medical Association calls “a gray area between the clearly permissible and clearly impermissible categories of action.”

Following complaints by local law enforcement, just about all have been investigated by the state board that licenses and disciplines physicians. Four were doctors who devoted their practices to acting as medical marijuana consultants and ultimately received sanctions ranging from the public rebuke that Fry got to having their licenses suspended.

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