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I’ve heard this twice now in as many years and it’s getting tiresome. Before going any further, let’s get a couple of things straight.
Doctors require a great deal of education and know more about diagnosing and treating illnesses than I likely ever will. Doctors must be able to achieve incredible academic feats to become a doctor. Doctors do require brain power.
That being said, a lot of them are pricks and I am constantly reminded why I have so very little patience for them.
The thing I have heard a couple of times now is that a doctor requires a special license to sign a medical marijuana access regulations form granting a patient exemption from the controlled drugs and substances act in possessing marijuana for medical reasons. No such license to sign said forms exists and any doctor who has been told it is required is either misinformed or enough of an absolute god damned prick to mislead their patients just so they don’t have to deal with them on a controversial topic any more.
Let’s be clear here.
ANY GENERAL PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE IN CANADA CAN SIGN A MEDICAL MARIJUANA FORM!
Some ailments for which medical marijuana may be obtained (not prescribed. An MMAR card is not a prescription) do also require the endorsement of a specialist but again, no special license is required of a GP to sign a medical marijuana application.
Doctors are generally a close minded bunch who deal with us, the uninformed and unwashed masses of course; but I just wish that every so often they would come off their damned pedestals or even be honest with their patients.
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Odd. Why would anyone say that? It doesn’t even make sense.
The reason would be Megan, that many doctors simply don’t want to talk to their patients about what is still a very controversial medical issue in Canada.
Heck, it was here in Saskatchewan that the college of physicians and surgeons actually threatened doctors with ripping their licenses had they signed a form for any of their patients seeking a medical marijuana exemption. That has since gone away with the times but the issue is still something doctors don’t talk about much in Sask’ or elsewhere.
Basically, doctors have acted the role of lily-livered cowards and have gone to the length of making up excuses to fob off their patients so they don’t have to talk to them about a controversial topic.
Doctors have failed to stand up for their own rights of medical discretion and have definitely failed to stand up for a patient’s right to be involved in their personal medical treatment. In short, they’ve acted as cowards and are deserving of all the ridicule they may receive for it.
Hell, I have so very little respect for the medical community it ain’t even funny.
