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The only negative thing about it I see is that doctors are willing to give you a BS script. Friend of mine went to a doc and complained about an old knee injur
by stef25 9y ago
The only negative thing about it I see is that doctors are willing to give you a BS script.
Friend of mine went to a doc and complained about an old knee injury to get medical weed and the doc just wink-winked him a prescription.
Then again, I would do it if I was in the US and smoked and anything to decriminalise this is a good thing.
- hguhghuff 9y agoDoesn’t the charade corrupt the integrity of the medical profession?
- gutnor 9y agoNo, that's what happened when you disconnect medical science from law and instead use culture and moral as legal basis. There is no good decision here, the alternative, refusing on medical ground is not correct either. There is no medical ground to refuse the guy some weed, when it is perfectly legal for him to buy unlimited quantities of alcohol which, medically, is as bad or worse. In both cases, the law puts the doctor in a position where he needs to bullshit. Some will chose to ignore the global context and look at the patient request in isolation, other will do the opposite. edit: also "pain" is intrinsically difficult metric for a doctor.
- dumbneurologist 9y agoIt does, actually. The doctors who do this (largely running a cash-only practice) are really a disgrace to the profession. It's good to be willing to think outside the box and practice with compassion, but it's another thing entirely to create prescriptions for surreptitious indications that is motivated by personal profit.
- ryanobjc 9y agoIn California, there is no such thing as a “prescription for weed”. You don’t get one from a doctor, the dispensaries don’t describe it as such. What you do get is a recommendation by a doctor that you would benefit from cannabis. This is a critical difference. It’s merely a doctors opinion you would benefit. And as many have noted, sone doctors appear to hold the opinion most adults would benefit. They might not be wrong. Btw, old injuries can have lasting pain for the rest of your life. Difficult to control pain. Medicine recognized this in the 90s, and one result was the opioid crisis. (Turns out opioids aren’t great for chronic pain.) Oh and it isn’t a bs script either. Because it’s not a script. As I noted above. To quote a certain movie, that’s funny not a single word you just said was correct.
- stef25 9y agoPerhaps I did just completely misquote what my (Californian) friend told me.
- jasonvm 9y agoHe's splitting hairs a bit. It's true that a doctor gives a patient a recommendation instead of a prescription (so you can purchase cannabis legally), but otherwise what you wrote is correct.
- ryanobjc 9y agoI disagree, and the reason Is that the word prescription is a legal and medical jargon term with specific meanings and ethical requirements. However an opinion is not. Thus building a moral barrier there. Some other opinions that many doctors have: everyone should drink more water. Everyone should exercise. Many people will get this advice/opinions without a prescription for such.
- jasonvm 9y agoRight, but a doctor is bound by the Hippocratic Oath, and because the recommendation, specifically, for cannabis has legal implications (i.e. the patient can now purchase it under the law), a cannabis rec has similar ethical considerations as a prescription.
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