I heard that a couple of years ago, the voters in California voted during an election to allow medical doctors to prescribe pot to patients that had certain types of pain induced medical problems. It passed, but the federal government then told the doctors that anyone who writes a prescription for pot for a patient, for any reason and they would revoke his medical license. California doctors were afraid to lose their licenses, so they didn't do it.
The voters in Arizona also put this on the ballots and they voted for it, but when it passed, the federal government also told the State of Arizona that if medical doctors wrote prescriptions for their patients they would cut off all federal funding for highways, the State of Arizona said fine and to this day, medical doctors in the State of Arizona can and do write prescriptions for their patients to use medicinal pot to deal with their pain.
Is this true?
And if it is true, can you please clarify it for me?
Thank you in advance
2007-07-23
09:41:54
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