Re: Medical Marijuana Services - Looking for a prescription in Canada under the new l
I live in Ontario but up north, my family Dr told me in no certain terms "I'm not going to be the first Dr. in town to start signing scripts for MM" The cops up here are anal and not forgiving at all.
I can't help thinking, these Dr. that are most likely charging the system as well as the patient for every script. My Family Dr, told me he would send any info needed to whomever I choose.
Sorry to hear about the dick cops where you live and your doctors silly ideologies.
The doctors through these services, don't charge the system USUALLY,i think only 2 clinics in ontario bill OHIP, but yes the patients. The issue here mainly is, doctors don't want to prescribe medical marijuana, particularly for 2 reasons.
1. Many medical colleges are against doctors prescribing marijuana for various illogical reasons. An example of this is the alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Doctors take this advice, instead of doing their own research.
2. Health Canada's extremely negative opinions on marijuana. Their idea is, theres no evidence to back up marijuana has medical uses. And that they should be doing everything to crack down it, regardless of how inhumane their tactics are. Because of this, doctors are more nervous to prescribe medical cannabis, fearing negative backlash in the medical community, and possibly being penalized by corrupt health canada officials.
However, doctors who are willing to risk everything realize this, so in their minds, they might as well make money off it, so in case if they do lose their doctor title, they'll have made a wad of cash to cover their jobless asses. If you think about it in a business mindset, this is actually very smart, but for patients it's shitty.