A medical marijuana recommendation is a written aprroval of a doctor that deems the use of marijuana approporiate to lessen the suffering of patients from debilitating illnesses, such as pain brought by chemotherapy to cancer patients, migraines, vomiting and unintentional weight loss and lack of appetite to name a few. However marijuana is known for its side effects, such as causing paranoia, inducing hallucinations and psychomotor disorders. Issuance of a marijuana recommendation must deemed applicable to the patient, the benefits overcome the possible side effects of using the drug.
The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 puts in effect the protection of any doctor, their rights and privileges, who would issue a medical marijuana recommendation from federal authorities. However, these doctors are somehow confused on what and how the standards should be on the cannabis recommendation. Confusion writing a legal recommendation – the liability on issuance of a recommendation of a drug that the Food and Drug Administation have branded as illegal and of no medical value. Also, the assurance of a consistent drug dosage, the purity of its contents and the effectiveness of marijuana itself.
The court had ruled over the doctor-patient privacy rights on the topic of issuance and the use of cannabis recommendations are defined as protected free speech. The confidentiality context of the law protects both the marijuana patients and the doctors who have recommended the use. There has yet to be a published list of doctors and physicians, proving that the law is in effect and that the privacy of the doctors are respected. Doctors will not loose their license to practice medicine by writing a medical marijuana recommendation.
The number of patients who are in line for a marijuana recommendation far outnumbers the doctors who are willing to issue a recommendation. Doctors are likely to prescribe a different solution to the patient’s condition or would not consider the use of marijuana at all. Getting a second opinion would be the adivisable for those who belive that they are in need of the drug treatment. Bringing a medical history record will reflect the patient’s condition, and obtaining a cannabis recommendation is possible. There is also another way to get a marijuana recommendation. Medical marijuana clinics can review a patient’s medical history far more effectively and issue a recommendation. Since marijuana had been legalized, these clinics have increased in number.
Doctors and physicians are considered as the moral boundary that keep patients from using marijuana. A qualified patient who wishes to use the drug as a way to alleviate the pain that is brought by their sickness, must first possess a marijuana recommendation, but others are finding difficult, so they turn to what they consider is an easier way to obtain the drug. No recommendations, no lining up, no hassle. But if these patients would purchase from the illegal drug dealers, they are not only putting their legal safety on the line, but their placing their health at risk of obtaining poor quality of marijuana as well.
