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Why doctors won’t prescribe medical marijuana?

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by bcseeds_com, Sep 11, 2006.

  1. The large majority of doctors refuse to prescribe Medical Marijuana even if it would benefit the patient. It's all about corruption and money. You see doctors go to school for a long time. They also deal with a lot of crap from stupid uneducated patients. Think about it for one minute, as a doctor you go to school during the prime of your youth, study 24-7, and when you have finished you're stuck working long hours until retirement. The entire world revolves around money, and doctors think they deserve more of it. The easiest way for doctors to do this is through kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. If a doctor prescribes a large amount of xyz brand drugs, xyz will pay for the doctor to fly to the Bahamas, for fully paid all-inclusive vacation “drug related seminar”. The seminar has to exist to prevent any frauds charges (usually one hour) over a period of 1-2 weeks. Other ways doctors make money is using stupid people as guinea pigs. The next time your doctor asks you to try a new drug, be wary. The doctor is getting paid huge kickbacks for taking notes on your reactions to the new drug. I have seen this a million times. My ex girlfriend was given new birth control pills. The doctor said it was supposed to be the Holy Grail with no side effects. Sure enough it was a disaster. He wanted to follow up with her ever week, and encouraged her to continue taking the new drug even though it had horrible side effects. Why would he endanger her life? For $50 per weekly check-up. The drug companies are allowed to pay “kickback” doctors for their time to fill out forms. The doctor's can sometime get as many as 3 daily visits from guinea pigs. This is an extra $150 in their back pockets every single working day. This money adds up over time. And the peer pressure from other doctors is over whelming. They are all involved in the kickback scandals as well, and they don't want to lose any money by prescribing anyone medical marijuana. Doctors want it to be illegal and not available medically to anyone who needs it.
    The thing with medical marijuana is that it involves a lot of paper work. And the government does not pay the doctor to fill out all these forms. The doctor will then be plagued with more forms since marijuana is so carefully scrutinized. The doctor would just be creating more work for himself with no financial gain. Of course he is going to deny you medical marijuana. Then he'll tell you made up specifications that marijuana is bad because you cannot measure its dosage like pharmaceuticals. He said there is too large of an error getting the same amount of drug into your system each dose. This is completely wrong. It's a simply lie. Almost all pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured with plants and they can control the amount of drug perfectly right? What's the difference? There is no difference. Marijuana is grown with different genetics that are all controlled in laboratories for THC content. No different than any other medication. As for consumption, you can bake with it to attain an exact dosage every time. And you can inhale a marijuana cigarette that is controlled by weight. There are no dangers overdosing with marijuana, yet for pain management doctors want to prescribe strong opiates. I am currently using the Duragesic Patch otherwise known as fentanyl transdermal system. This stuff is stronger than Methadone, the drug they give to heroine users to wean them off the junk. Methadone is stronger than morphine. This patch is one step down from heroin. The patch contains enough drugs to last 72 hours (3 days) and if the patch leaks (which does happen) you can soak up enough drugs through your skin and possibly die. This fentanyl patch was used to commit murder in a CSI episode (television series). The problem with this patch is that it takes a good 5-9 hours for your body to absorb enough drugs when applying a new patch. So your waiting in pain for what seems an eternity. Marijuana is instant pain relief when inhaled. The patch also runs out early after about 60 hours depending on the outdoor temperatures and you activity levels. When the temperatures rise outside, the patch will transmit more opiates into your bloodstream. You can easily overdose. You cannot go into saunas or hot tubs and shower quickly. It also hurts my kidneys making it difficult to urinate, dry mouth, and seriously horrible headaches. You also can just stop taking this drug cold turkey, you'll go through horrible withdrawal symptoms similar to those quitting heroin. Marijuana on the other hand is more controllable. If you have something important to do like drive a car, you can lower your dose. The patch doesn't allow for this. Also, the patch transmits all night while you are sleeping, so when you wake up in the morning you have a lot of opiates in your systems, and it's very hard to get moving. Marijuana can be used to help kill the pain before sleep. Once asleep the marijuana leaves your system after 2 hours and you can wake up refreshed in the morning ready to go to work and be productive. I just want to enlighten you about how evil doctors can be, and to help you get the medical marijuana you need. Since doctors are financially motivated rather than motivated to help those in pain, offer your doctor $200 dollars to fill out the initial medical marihuana forms, and $50 dollars for each subsequent form. A random gift would also help speed along the process like gift certificates to a fine restaurant for “Christmas” or a “birthday”. You have to lower yourself to the level of the pharmaceuticals companies.
    But there is hope, Moses Znaimer is quitting is career in television to start up a Medical Marijuana company, Cannsat Pharmaceuticals Inc. If anyone can get this done right, it's Moses.

    Thanks for reading, and together we can change things to help medical marijuana user.

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  2. next time can you double space that essay or something, it was a good point but jesus i can barely read that, stupid doctors
     
  3. a few things, first of all most pharmaceutical companies offer those vacations etc. to doctors BEFORE they perscribe the drugs, and those seminars rant and rave about how good the new drug is, trying to encourage doctors to perscrible it. It is distinctly illegal for pharmaceutical companies to pay by perscription to doctors, because they cannot legally know ever single patients perscription status. They sell the drugs to pharmacies, not directly to patients.
    Also, most doctors really do want to help patients, but you must understand the stigmas and genuine legal strife surrounding MM is enough to discourage many doctors from perscribing it. They worry about being labeled at pushing weed to potheads who dont need it, and MM really ISNT legal, per se. The federal gov still says its illegal, and reserves the right to step in an arrest patients and suppliers whenever they want. Doctors are hesitant to put themselves in that sort of situation. For that same reason, you should NEVER suggest that people offer to slip their doctor a loosely disguised bribe in exchange for a certain perscription. By giving your doctor a wholly innaprorpiate $200 christmas present, right after he gives you a perscription for MM, youre really compromising their integrity. Not to mention that bribing a doctor for them to perscribe an otherwise illegal painkiller is a great way to get them in deep shit.

    I agree that MM should be nationally legalized, and that there should be no negative stigma surrounding its use. But dont suggest that doctors are greedy liars depriving the american citizens of proper treatment.

    p.s. MM is a relatively new treatment option available to doctors, and they are traditionally slow to enter mainstream use.
     
  4. Doctors are one of the largest groups of people fighting FOR medical marijuana. It's absurd to say they are greedy and don't want to to recommend marijuana cause of money reasons. They make the same amount of money weither the presribe vicadin or marijuana. Most the stuff you said about seminars and what not is just simply not true.


    You should be bowing down and thanking doctors, they are one of the main groups of people who have helped medical marijuana become legal in 11 states.

    Most won't prescribe it becauser either A) They dont know much about marijauana so they dont want to prescribe a drug they don tknow much about (very understandable) or B) They dont understand the laws around marijuana and they think they can lose their job for it (which they can't). Both these are very good reasons not to give out a recomendation.


    Doctors were the ones who went all the way the supreme court for the right to recommend marijuana without being prosecuted. and they won! So without them no one would even have medical marijauana today.
     

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