DEA Leaning On Massachusetts Docs with Dispensaries Ties
The Boston Globe is reporting today that the DEA has been visiting Massachusetts doctors involved with yet-to-open medical marijuana dispensaries and giving them an ultimatum: Cut your ties with the dispensary or lose your DEA-issued license to prescribe drugs.
That could have an impact on the opening of some dispensaries, and that could have an impact on Massachusetts patients, who've already been waiting nearly a year-and-a-half for them to open since voters approved medical marijuana there in November 2012.
The DEA's actions to screw around with medical marijuana in Massachusetts come even as, in a historic vote, the House just a week ago voted to bar the DEA from interfering with medical marijuana in states where it is legal. Stories like this one from the Globe are only going to add pressure for the Senate to go along.
The DEA doesn't get it. It has already lost this war. It's time for the agency to get out of the way, or better yet, go the way of the dinosaurs. But while the DEA and the prohibition regime it enforces may be dying dinosaurs, those final twitches of the tail still have the power to inflict injury. Better to put the beast out its misery.
What is the Senate Bill
What is the Senate Bill number to correspond with the House vote last week on the DEA, and is there a projected date for a Senate vote? It would be good to know so we can call our Senators without sounding ill-informed. Thanks.
The next Massachusetts governor is going to be a cannabis hater
The Democrat running is the notorious Martha Coakley, the Republican is equally bigoted against weed. Doesn't matter that the majority of MA voters want it legalized. Sigh.
Yes!
As long as the old guard is in charge of these politically charged medical groups, doctors will be scared into submission. That is, unless they don't care that these people can pull their license to practice, essentially making them destitute! It happened with pain management doctors. It will happen to any that take the chance to act like they have a single bone of compassion left in their body!
intimidation and threats
I have seen the medical system go from caring people who want to help others to the current model where people become doctors for the money.Into this we add the federal agencies responsible for the law getting into what the doctors can prescribe and how much of it they are allowed to prescribe.My current family doctor would not take over the prescribing of my pain medications,forcing me to rely on methadone doctors who work under an agenda and are just in it for the extra money.He also refused to sign for my renewal of my cannabis license so that expired and I refused to put out the $500.That's the cost of an on line prescription that is necessary because BC's college is against cannabis.I'm sure they use threats and intimidation as that's what every doctor claims.It's also how they run the methadone program which they have set up as a monopoly.There were once doctors who prescribed methadone because they believed in it.They all had their licenses stripped away and they refused,to a man,to sign on under the system the college introduced.They saw that it was an ideology based plan that ignored the fact that addicts,like everyone,are individuals and that cookie cutter one size fits all medicine was a bad deal all around.The current crop are sadistic,antagonistic and truly primitive in the way they deal with people.
DEA is no longer needed
Since the borders are open and drugs flowing like a river into the US, the DEA needs to be fired and sent home. We don't need them anymore...
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