Patients may soon be able to use medical marijuana in California hospital
In a first-ever for California, patients at Marin General may soon be allowed to consume medical marijuana in the hospital.
If members of the Marin Healthcare District approve the resolution introduced by Dr. Larry Bedard at Tuesday’s meeting, the hospital’s staff would begin a review process examining the legal and medicalimplications of using medical pot at the acute-care center.
Patients, however, would not be allowed to smoke the drug, which doctors have been legally prescribing in California since the late 1990s because smoking is banned in the state’s hospitals.
Last month, Bedard told Media News about his plan.
“I want to have Marin General be the first hospital in California to openly and transparently allowpatients to use medical cannabis,” said Bedard, a retired emergency medicine physician who used to work at Marin General and is now a member of the district board.
Last year, the pro-marijuana activist group California NORML reported that more than 1,500 physicians in the state had...
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