Canada's Top Medical Marijuana Doctor Arrested

wow. it really sounds like he is being railroaded and on the train where he is not supposed to make money for his services.

... then again i have been fooled before. so whatever. i hope there is justice.

Wow isn't that the truth. I remember back home when I was in high school we had a doc that people went to to get meds. Every time I went near him he tried to give me a scrp for valuum. Not sure what happened to him, but he was the "favorite" of the legal druggers. Half of my high school was tanked out on valuum by the time I graduated.

I see nothing but a Doctor abusing his position to profit as a drug dealer and placing his personal beliefs over his professional oaths.

You cannot break your oathes and laws no matter how well mannered you are and how many people want you too.

He is not selling drugs - he is writing (like) a prescription. I hate how the truth can be twisted just by the way someone paraphrases.

The alternative medicine doctors here charge for a 'permit' - it was $100 the first time and $60 to renew each year - (we get a lamenated ID card with picture), and that includes the consultattion to discuss your medical issues - so why should they have to spend time and materials without being paid for it?

This year the doctor I had told me he works for the state as an examiner.

I don't see where telling people not to tell others is necessarily suspect - although I can see why you would say that, Kay. It may be that he just really could not handle the traffic he was getting in his small community practice, not to mention his worst nightmare coming true, that he is being jacketed with the 'croaker' label (the doctors who seem to do nothing else but write prescriptions for profit).

It is surprising this is happening in Canada. We always thought of them as the 'wild frontier' - that is where the guys ran to when there was a draft for the military - and we always looked at it as liberal (in a good way).

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Not the most tactful approach. I do agree with his stance on giving patients alternative treatments:

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I couldn't disagree more, he is NOT selling drugs, rather, providing patients with an alternative to narcotics. It was up to Health Canada to approve the requests.

I hear you Lexy - but then you have definitely got a bias - and as would most of us you tend to buy into anything that leans toward that bias or confirms circumstantially that what you "suspect" is true.

... just sayin'

There is NO charging for a prescription here. The doctor is simply charging for the forms to be filled out, which is legal. All our doctors charge for this or any form to be filled out.

Quote:
I will apply dietetic measure for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.

Nice but then if that were true he wouldn't be able to prescribe most drugs - no wonder he doesn't mind 'prescribing' marijuana

http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreation...ose/facts.html

Most Common Drugs involved in Overdoses
In 2010, of the 38,329 drug overdose deaths in the United States, 22,134 (60%) were related to pharmaceuticals.6
Of the 22,134 deaths relating to prescription drug overdose in 2010, 16,652 (75%) involved opioid analgesics (also called opioid pain relievers or prescription painkillers), and 6,497 (30%) involved benzodiazepines.6
In 2011, about 1.4 million ED visits involved the nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals. Among those ED visits, 501,207 visits were related to anti-anxiety and insomnia medications, and 420,040 visits were related to opioid analgesics.2
Benzodiazepines are frequently found among people treated in EDs for misusing or abusing drugs.2 People who died of drug overdoses often had a combination of benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics in their bodies.6

Costs
In the United States, prescription opioid abuse costs were about $55.7 billion in 2007.7 Of this amount, 46% was attributable to workplace costs (e.g., lost productivity), 45% to healthcare costs (e.g., abuse treatment), and 9% to criminal justice costs.7
Between 1998-2002, people who abused opioid analgesics cost insurers $14,054 more than the average patient.8

Statistics of Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdosing, Emergency Room Visits: Foundation for a Drug Free World

CAUSE OF DEATHS

Prescription
Drugs Street Drugs
Combined: 39%
45% (Amphetamine
+ Heroin
+ Methamphetamine
+ Cocaine)

Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined. In the United States, the most deaths used to take place in inner cities in African-American neighborhoods, but they have now been overtaken by white rural communities. The same trend can be seen in the rates of hospitalization for substance abuse and emergency hospitalization for overdoses. Of the 1.4 million drug-related emergency room admissions in 2005, 598,542 were associated with abuse of pharmaceuticals alone or with other drugs.

By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs—60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.

NO DEATHS EVER REPORTED FOR MARIJUANA.

I'd sure have a lot more problem with this if the guy was writing scrpts for pharmaceutical drugs that can kill when abused than I have with seeing it's just pot prescriptions. Doctors shouldn't have to write prescriptions for pot. It shouldn't be illegal.

I will try and respond tomorrow. I'm dealing with an emergency at the moment.

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