WASHINGTON — Plans are on track in Maryland to open nearly 100 medical marijuana dispensaries next year.
The latest move in Annapolis is that the House of Delegates has voted to broaden the type of health care providers who would be allowed to prescribe the drug.
Under the state law legalizing medical marijuana, only physicians can prescribe medical marijuana. But the House has voted to extend that authority to dentists, podiatrists and nurses.
Delegate Erek Barron, D-Prince George’s County, says the idea makes sense.
“These additional practice groups are trusted and in a position to make that call for their patients,” Barron says.
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ReplyDeleteIf I get a prescription for medical marijuana, will my prescription medical insurance cover it? Just wondering....
ReplyDeleteIt's only for the money. Greed.
ReplyDeleteYep that's what we need MD a liquor and now literally drug store on every corner. As a RECOVERED alcohol and drug abuser grow up people face your problems stop trying to dull the pain with the poison
ReplyDeleteThanks for your very special input. If you don't need it, don't take it. If you do need it, it should be available to you.
Delete-----A PTSD, chronic pain and seizure victim (traumatic head injury) helped by marijuana (after thirty other medications since the injury that didn't work or made me sicker)
You're in RECOVERY. If you think you're recovered, good for you.
DeleteAlways recovering you tool. Your no addict or you would know this. Nice try there bub.
DeleteBy nurses, they mean nurse practitioners, who can legally prescribe, not RNs or LPNs.
ReplyDeleteGet busy and make it happen. The results are in and it's a medication.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing that many of us will now have legal access.
ReplyDeletePut the power back in the peoples hand its a figgin plant!!! Let it grow!!! put them all out of bussiness. Its more benefical than any big pharma solution allot Less dangerous than alcohol. Desired and wanted by many for the profits. Gonna Help the kids like the lottery does? Yeh right #$!!\/!! politicans are lying crooks.
ReplyDeleteI'll dull the pain with whatever works. If it doesn't have serious side effects, so much the better. No, heroin isn't on my list. And neither are any poppy plant extracts or synthetics, like codeine or oxycontin -- been there, won't go back.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you with real and severe medical conditions this should be available for you. I have a feeling most patients will be stoners that get a doctors note from the same doctors that write scripts for methadone and suboxone.
ReplyDeleteI really hope that all primary care physicians (and nurses) are educating themselves. The drug reps from Big Pharma are going to be pushing their pills and caps and injections harder and pooh-poohing the benefits of medicinal cannabis. Most of their products can kill you. Cannabis won't.
ReplyDeleteSome of us have chronic pain-no pun intended-and just do not want to use narcotic pain meds because of their high risk of being abused.They are extremely addictive and ruin your liver.Medical marijuana has been proven to ease the symptoms of many causes of pain....even in MS.
ReplyDeleteWe're not "out of the woods" yet, until it is completely legal for RECREATIONAL use.
ReplyDeleteIt's still "Prohibition". Back then, you could get a prescription for "medicinal alcohol", although it was illegal to distill it yourself for personal consumption. Who benefited? The few, government controlled alcohol distilleries, and doctors who set up shop basically as prescription mills.
Go to the doctor, pay $5.00, say you have a backache, get a prescription for "medicinal alcohol"', go to the pharmacist, pay him $2.00, and get your bottle of generic, crap tasting alcohol. Just don't get caught enjoying it. That was how Prohibition worked. The government controlled and heavily taxed production, and quality was abysmal.
And here we are back to Prohibition...
Go to the doctor, pay $150, say you have a backache, get a prescription for "medical marijuana", go to the pharmacy, pay $175, and get your generic baggie of pot. Just don't get caught enjoying it.
It leaves the government a giant opportunity to criminalize people anyway.
How many further tests or other "treatments" will be required before they "prescribe" pot, when all someone wants is some legal chronic to take the edge off? How much proof of the necessity will be demanded?
We need the "gatekeepers" eliminated entirely. No pretense of going to a doctor if there's not a real medical reason for it. If someone wants pot, they should be free to grow a few plants for personal consumption, or go to a privately owned store on the free market and buy some weed for recreational use.