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What does Conant mean for doctors and health
care professionals?
Doctors CAN:
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Discuss, fully and candidly, the risks and benefits of medical marijuana
with patients.
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Recommend (or Approve, Endorse, Suggest, or Advise, etc.), in accordance
with their medical judgment, marijuana for patient use.
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Record in their patients’ charts discussions about and recommendations of
medical marijuana.
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Sign a government form or otherwise inform state or local officials that
they have recommended medical marijuana for particular patients.
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Testify in court or through written declaration about recommending medical
marijuana for a certain patient.
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Educate themselves about the medical benefits of marijuana, its various
clinical applications, and different routes of ingestion.
Doctors CANNOT:
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Prescribe medical marijuana. This includes writing a recommendation on an
Rx form.
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Assist patients in obtaining marijuana.
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Cultivate or possess marijuana for patient use.
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Physically assist patients in using marijuana.
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Recommend marijuana without a justifiable medical cause.
This summary is from the
Drug Policy Alliance. A more complete summary appears on their worthwhile
site.
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| Input to the Medical Board
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May 7,
2004 -- Transcript |
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Various question raised to the MBC. Comments on MBC positions. |
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| 2003 |
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May 8, 2003 |
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Defining standards of care, complaint initiation and
responsibility |
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