Letter to the Editor: Doctors, Patients Need Not Fear Medical Marijuana
Steph Sherer, executive director for Americans for Safe Access, responds to Patch's recent article, 'D.C. Doctors Not High on Medical Marijuana.'
Dear Editor, Doctors should never prescribe or recommend medications with which they are unfamiliar, so it is a relief to hear that the doctors quoted in your recent article (“D.C. Doctors Not High on Medical Marijuana”) will not be telling their patients to use cannabis. If one of the many physicians who understand the therapeutic properties of cannabis had been consulted, readers might have learned something meaningful instead of being subjected to a litany of myths and misinformation. For instance, it is becoming increasingly common knowledge that smoking is but one delivery method for cannabis. At the beginning of the 20th century, cannabis medications were commonly manufactured and distributed by US pharmaceutical companies as …
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