Medical Marijuana Is Legal in Most States, but Physicians Have Little Evidence to Guide Them

• Autores: Rita Rubin
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 317, Nº. 16, 2017, págs. 1611-1613
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Five patients have confided to Key West internist John Norris III, MD, that they use marijuana to relieve painful, persistent muscle spasms resulting from strokes or multiple sclerosis.

    Norris’s patients have been buying their marijuana illegally. “They can get it from some high school kid or bartender in Key West,” he said. But Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana this past November by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, spurring Norris to enroll in an 8-hour course required of all physicians in the state who want to be able to recommend the treatment to their patients.