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The professional organization that regulates the conduct of B.C. doctors is cracking down on how patients access medicinal marijuana, and some MDs in the province are not happy about it.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Ian Mitchell, a Kamloops-based physician and clinical associate professor at UBC, described the new rules as “excessive” and “beyond Health Canada requirements”.
“This is very restrictive and a big change from the past,” he told the Georgia Straight. “These new regulations make it almost impossible for anybody to comply with them.”
The revised policies come in the form of a recent College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. “professional standards and guidelines” memo. The March 2015 document concerns how doctors should issue what Health Canada calls a “medical document” (as opposed to a prescription) that patients require to order marijuana from federally authorized suppliers.
It states that cannabis is “not appropriate” for patients under the age of...
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