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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Here's why Doctors are Still Skeptical About New York's Medical Marijuana Law 🌿Here's why Doctors are Still Skeptical About New York's Medical Marijuana Law
While New York’s medical marijuana program is scheduled to go into effect this January, it is uncertain whether enough doctors will be able to recommend cannabis to the patients who need it most.
As written, the Compassionate Care Act — signed into law last year by Governor Andrew Cuomo — requires physicians who wish to recommend cannabis to register with the Department of Health, take a four-hour educational course, and maintain an ongoing relationship with the patients for whom they write recommendations. Additionally, the doctor must be treating the specific condition for which he or she is recommending cannabis; for example, only an oncologist can write a recommendation to a cancer patient for medical marijuana. These requirements are among the reasons why, for many doctors, medical cannabis remains a nonstarter.
The Compassionate Care Act has been derided as prohibitively restrictive. It covers just ten “severe, debilitating, or life-threatening” conditions,...
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