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Will I lose my license and how do I know what to prescribe? Will I lose my job? Is it safe? The most common questions we can help you answer: | 1 > > > 2 3 Laws vary by State, it is important that having access to the legal knowledge in our portal will help you stay compliant. A hand full of doctors have lost their licenses or have been repri- manded for practicing without a license, or partaking in illegal activities such as fraudulent documents. Physicians cannot legally prescribe marijuana, they attest to the disease state the patient has, they do not prescribe in most states except New York. The Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies Marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act. (Mark Crane, Doctors legal risks with medical marijuana, June 4, 2015). If you are a hospital employee or affiliated with a health care system such as the VA, that changes and varies if you have an employee contract. To error on the side of caution, you should speak to your legal counsel. Medical Marijuana has been legal since 1995 in California. Our membership allows you to seek attorney’s in your state if you do not have one, or speak to other health care practitioners to network with so you can incorporate Medical Marijuana into your medical practice. There have been no known cases of a lethal overdose of cannabis. DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, in response to a petition to reschedule cannabis under federal law concluded in 1988 that, “In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume ... Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.” In addition, renowned forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht testified before the PA House Health Committee that he had never attributed a cause of death to "acute cannabinoid toxicity." Cannabis' LD 50 rating is so low that a human would be required to ingest 1500 pounds in a 15 minute period to risk a toxic overdose.

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Will I lose my license and how do I know what to prescribe?

Will I lose my job?

Is it safe?

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Laws vary by State, it is important that having access to the legal knowledge in our portal will help you stay compliant. A hand full of doctors have lost their licenses or have been repri-manded for practicing without a license, or partaking in illegal activities such as fraudulent documents. Physicians cannot legally prescribe marijuana, they attest to the disease state the patient has, they do not prescribe in most states except New York. The Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies Marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act. (Mark Crane, Doctors legal risks with medical marijuana, June 4, 2015).

If you are a hospital employee or affiliated with a health care system such as the VA, that changes and varies if you have an employee contract. To error on the side of caution, you should speak to your legal counsel. Medical Marijuana has been legal since 1995 in California. Our membership allows you to seek attorney’s in your state if you do not have one, or speak to other health care practitioners to network with so you can incorporate Medical Marijuana into your medical practice.

There have been no known cases of a lethal overdose of cannabis. DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young, in response to a petition to reschedule cannabis under federal law concluded in 1988 that, “In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume ... Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.”

In addition, renowned forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht testified before the PA House Health Committee that he had never attributed a cause of death to "acute cannabinoid toxicity." Cannabis' LD 50 rating is so low that a human would be required to ingest 1500 pounds in a 15 minute period to risk a toxic overdose.