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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Marijuana Stigma Hurts Doctor–Patient Relationship, Study Says

The receding but still powerful stigma surrounding cannabis often gets in the way of a healthy doctor-patient relationship. It can be so difficult to speak honestly and openly about medical cannabis use, in fact, that the stigma may actually harm a patient’s health.

Those were some of the many findings in a review published earlier this week in the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. Jennie Ryan and Nancy Sharts-Hopko, researchers at Villanova University, reviewed five studies of medical cannabis patients published between 2003 and 2015, and discovered these common themes regarding MMJ patients and the harmful effects of “reefer madness” stigma:
Many medical marijuana patients remain fearful of “being labeled a pothead or stoner.”

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you don't tell anybody about your medicine, how will they know?
Why would anyone call a person a "stoner" unless the person is visibly stoned?

Anonymous said...

You can look at someone and tell if they smoke pot.

Anonymous said...

No, I can't, unless they're really, really stoned.

Anonymous said...

2:06 Can ya now?? 😂😂

Anonymous said...

2:06--
Sorry for the delay, had to pick myself up off the floor from the laughing fit you set off! There are soooo many people that you'd never guess do. Judge much, by the way?

lmclain said...

2:06 has superhuman powers.

It's a fact (you hate it, too, I know) that people you would NEVER suspect of smoking pot --- I'm talking doctors, lawyers, judges, teachers, cops --- are hitting a joint at night before they go to bed.
What do you say to them when you "look at them" and see they are potheads?
Anything?
Or are your superpowers only "on" once in a while???