American Medical Association Votes to Support Legal Protections for Physicians who Recommend Cannabis
Delegates to the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States, have passed a resolution in support of protecting physicians who recommend cannabis from legal prosecution. The vote came during an annual meet in Chicago.
Specifically, the AMA agreed that in states where the therapeutic or recreational use of cannabis is legal, physicians who give it to patients for “an approved medical condition” should be guaranteed they will not face federal prosecution for doing so.
The resolution states that protecting physicians is “consistent with AMA policy to protect patient-physician communications about treatment options, supporting a public health approach rather than a law-enforcement focus, for individuals possessing cannabis for personal use and opposing government interference with the practice of medicine.”
Founded in 1847, the American Medical Association has a membership of 217,490 (as of 2011).
– TheJointBlog
Tom
Now why doesn’t the AMA let Chiropractors and homeopathic doctors back in and kick chemo and radiation to the curb where it belongs???