New York doctors just say no to medical marijuana

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New York's medical-marijuana program is slated to be up and running by January 2016. But whilecompanies have been scrambling to show they meet the state's criteria to grow and dispense marijuana, little has been done to give doctors the tools they need to register patients to get them the drug. Even more worrisome, many doctors say they wouldn't recommend marijuana to their patients.

"This has been my biggest concern," state Sen. Diane Savino said Wednesday, speaking at a meeting on the logistics of getting the state's medical cannabis program up and running. "We don't have a single trained physician. They are the gatekeepers of all of this," she said at the panel, hosted by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

MarijuanaDoctors.com, which offers a state-by-state directory of doctors willing to recommend cannabis, has one physician practice listed in New York: A.F. Medical and Rehabilitation of Flatbush. But doctors must take a state-mandated training course...

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