Medical marijuana conjures up images of “rundown pot shops that had sprung up on the Venice boardwalk”.
But now doctors are understanding how it can help patients who have been pretty much left to fend for themselves trying to find a non-addictive painkiller: “paralyzed middle-aged men in wheelchairs, moms with fibromyalgia, grandmas with rheumatoid disease, young adults with lupus”.
Dr. Daniela Drake, who is also a Stanford MBA, grew from shunning marijuana to working at a shop that prescribed medical marijuana.
She explains her experiences as such:
Sure, there were also the potheads and the liars who came in with shady stories and didn’t bother to bring in medical records. The physicians who worked in the clinic struggled with these cases. But here was a substance that was known to have tremendous benefit for many people. Shouldn’t they at least have safe access?
It’s a question that continues to stump the DEA and the Obama administration, who after making campaign promises about medical marijuana, has simply ignored them.
