Blog: Mass. practitioners waiting for medical marijuana guidance

Massachusetts voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2012, but physicians are still waiting for practice guidelines and education that will enable them to issue the necessary certificates to patients. “I have received no special training (required for physicians to certify patients as eligible for marijuana treatment) … and have little more information than that which the state has provided to my fellow citizens,” Suzanne Koven, MD, wrote in the Boston Globe’s In Practice blog earlier this week. Physicians in Massachusetts can recommend cannabis without special training until the state’s Department of Public Health initiates a registration process. For now, however, patients requesting certification for medical marijuana may find their physicians “ill-prepared or reluctant to provide it,” she wrote.

Source: Boston Globe