Legalized Marijuana Dealing

Hippocannabis Oath

October 6th, 2007

While I was visiting a Navy Recruiting Station in California about a year ago I met an applicant who told me one of his current medications prescribed by his doctor was marijuana. Up to that point he was the first person I met who had been prescribed the storied drug. He told me it was prescribed to help with his anxiety attacks. No, he did not qualify for the Navy, he had a few “issues”. For some reason, this morning, I remembered the encounter and it got me to thinking.

How many doctors are prescribed medical marijuana?

I searched the web and found no data on the subject… I did find that in California the law reads; “…that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.?

Seems so ambiguous.

Doctors have been and I hope always will be able to prescribe the drugs they deem appropriate for the proper care of their patients. Most prescription drugs are illegal to possess if they were not properly prescribed, that’s why it takes years of medical school and a license to delve them out.

But… unlike all those other drugs doctors can prescribe, marijuana is in fact a party drug, in a lot of peoples eyes (not a glaucoma reference…) marijuana is like having a beer. A lot of people who attended college, especially in the 1960’s - 80’s casually used the drug. Serving in Navy Recruiting for as many years as I did there were countless people admitting to the marijuana use, I would ask why they tried it and have them write a statement as part of their enlistment package - a lot of them would chuckle and respond with, “heh, I was in college” leaving me with the impression it is just something you do there.

My Conspiracy Theory

Well, doctors of course go to college. I assume many of them have used the drug. I assume there are doctors being prescribed the “medication” for casual use and of course have a “diagnosis” which fills the minimum criteria by law. Seems to me it would be much easier to find a group of doctors who would participate in “cross prescribing” of marijuana than other drugs considered potentially dangerous. Brings up an interesting question, “Should patients have a right to know the medical state, condition of the person treating them?” Hey Doc, you on any prescription meds? Does it hurt when I press here?

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