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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 No list yet on NY doctors who can prescribe medical marijuana 🌿No list yet on NY doctors who can prescribe medical marijuana
ALBANY -- New York plans to have its medical marijuana program operating in early January.
There’s just one glaring omission: The state Department of Health hasn’t released a list of doctors who are registered to write medical-marijuana prescriptions.
“It’s a real problem,” said Julie Netherland, deputy state director for the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group. “We get calls from patients every day wanting to know how they can get a physician to help them, and in the absence of any kind of public list, there’s nothing we can do to assist.”
The health department on Dec. 23 launched its system for severely ill patients to enroll in its medical marijuana program, which will provide the drug in non-smokeable forms.
But first the patient need to get certified by a physician registered by New York. Then the patient can go online to enroll in the program, allowing them to buy...
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