What is the chance an Arizona doctor would prescribe medical marijuana for its patients?
Does the recent federal government position on medical marijuana have any impact on Arizona medical marijuana?
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Arizona Prop 200 passed in 1996 (Approved by 65% of voters on Nov. 5, 1996
Effective: Dec. 6, 1996) :
Measure changed sentencing for drug offenders, requiring those who commit violent crimes to serve full sentences without parole, and diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment. Prop 200 also permitted doctors to prescribe schedule I controlled substances, including marijuana, to treat a disease or to relieve pain and suffering in seriously ill and terminally ill patients. Under federal law, however, marijuana is considered an illegal drug and physicians are prohibited from writing prescriptions for illegal drugs. The use of the word "prescribe" instead of "recommend" is the reason that Prop 200 is not considered to make medical marijuana legal in Arizona.
With all these cancer treatment centers opening up in the Phoenix area, the choise's a patient will make, in where they will be treated, would tend to steer them to another state where their treatment is not dictated by state government policy, but rather only focused on the needs of the patient.
If it were me, I'd go to Colorado or California for treatment. To think the state of Arizona would throw a seriously ill patient in jail for using medical marijuana, and then making them attend a drug treatment program, is just plain stupid, and evil.
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