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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Cannabis Prescriptions vs. Certifications: The Wording Matters 🌿Cannabis Prescriptions vs. Certifications: The Wording Matters
A number of state legislative sessions recently adjourned leaving several new cannabis bills awaiting governors’ signatures. Two states in particular—Louisiana and Texas—made moves towards legalizing cannabis. Their bills have a lot in common. They are highly restrictive, CBD only, and allow access for a very limited number of conditions. Most importantly, they suffer from the same fatal flaw—they require doctors issue “prescriptions” for medical cannabis.
Why is this important? The difference between a prescription and a certification or recommendation may seem to be mere semantics. After all, they function in basically the same way—in both instances the doctor’s signature serves as a barrier between the patient and his or her medicine. Setting aside whether this should even be the case for cannabis, however, there is an important distinction between prescribing and certifying medical cannabis that seems to have escaped these legislators’ attention. In the end, this may spell...
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