I won't quote all the posts, but
this post seems to have started a discussion regarding doctors and their involvement with medicinal cannabis.
For me, modern medicine is best described as "bitter-sweet" as I consider medicine to be among the most important occupations around, however, I seem to be hearing about/dealing with more and more doctors that I would consider to be incompetent, if not negligent.
Unfortunately, I can't let doctors off the hook in this instance. Whether it's the best approach or not we live in a world where governing bodies have decided that average joe/jane is not capable of determining what medication they need, or what dosage to take, etc. for certain drugs and that it's up to doctors to prescribe them. As such doctors are the ones in the best position to get medicinal cannabis to the point where it should already be. Average joe/jane can plead all they like, the governing bodies have already made it clear they don't think average joe/jane is capable of determining what's best for themselves.
I watched something that was on TV here a year or two ago discussing medicinal cannabis. They had doctors on the show giving the same tired pseudo-logic I've come to expect about how we need more trials and we need to test the safety, etc. This sort of mentality is at best a joke, at worst it's causing unnecessary suffering. I believe if these doctors could use real logic for a change they'd realise that there's more than enough information regarding the safety of cannabis. There are even studies showing that recreational cannabis is less harmful than other legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, let alone medicinal cannabis. More importantly, at least some of these doctors prescribe medications with some pretty severe side effects and don't seem to have a problem with those medications.
I think what I'm getting at is we have at least some doctors saying things like "we need more trials" regarding cannabis while at the same time saying to some patients "well, there's nothing more we can do". If they were even half as intelligent as they think they are they'd be saying "well, cannabis can't make this situation any worse, I should be able to offer it, and the medical community is in the best position to make that a possibility".
I get it... I see why it's occuring.. but these 2 words don't belong in the sphere of thought that literally holds my life in it's hands.
Precisely!