Comment on Psychiatrists fear medicinal cannabis adverse events are 'tip of the iceberg'
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
As a GP I know very few doctors who don’t accept that cannabis or cannabis derived products have a role to play in medicine. I know even fewer who don’t see the recent rapid explosion of cannabis prescribing as reckless and dangerous.
Squiddork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a GP are you for legalisation (similar to alcohol) or for more tightly controlled prescriptions?
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Whenever this is raised the argument about legalisation for recreational use is conflated. Alcohol, cocaine, oxycodone etc all have medicinal and recreational uses and we appropriately treat then differently.
If we are using it as medicine, at a minimum we should see prescription tracking and monitoring with implications for doctors prescribing inappropriately similar to the way we treat other medications with potential for abuse.
My opinion, for what it’s worth is that there should be legalised cannabis for recreational purposes.
What we definitely shouldn’t have is a situation where I am having people turning up to my clinic expecting a prescription for recreational doses of flower to smoke.