New federal regulations that cast doctors as the “gatekeepers” to medical marijuana have
increased pressure on them to authorize access to what is effectively an unproven drug, the …

Revised regulations governing Health Canada's medicinal marijuana program reduce the
onus on physicians as gatekeepers, but the 4-year-old program is still cause for concern …

A s Massachusetts prepares to implement its new medicalmarijuana law, agents of the
federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have reportedly visited at least seven …

According to federal law, marijuana use or possession is still illegal. What about medical
marijuana card holders?* Can you have a zero tolerance policy?* How does the Americans …

Because of the federal ban on marijuana, physicians can't prescribe it. But they can make a
judgment that a patient would benefit from it, and patients in states where medical marijuana …

The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its
classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant …

Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine for almost 20 years. But Farmington physician
Jean antonucci says she continues to feel unprepared when counseling sick patients about …

He says that by requiring physicians to serve as the program's gatekeepers, the new
regulations are unfair to patients because seriously ill people will have a difficult time finding …

Health Canada's new medical marijuana regulations shift the onus from federal regulators to
doctors and nurse practitioners to write “medical documents” similar to prescriptions …

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