We have been busy preparing for our clinic tomorrow at our Patient Care & Education Center. The schedule is full, the medical records are ready, the patients are eager to take the first step to becoming a legal cannabis user.

We'll by running like crazy tomorrow but it is all worth it!

Check back Friday for an update on how the clinic went!

Until then :)

This is a call to action for all physicians as defined by Title 37, Chapter 3 of the Montana Code Annotated¹ to stand up and find a way to become more accessible to the patients of Montana that have conditions that could qualify them for acceptance into the Montana Medical Marijuana Program. The law is clear as to what a debilitating condition is, so why is it so difficult for patients to find a doctor willing to sign the recommendation? The norm is that patients have to go outside their own primary care doctors and find an alternative means to get the signed recommendation.

Montana is not a highly taxed state or a state where the majority of the residents have a lot of capital at their disposal thus economics plays a large role in health care in our great state.

Cannabis is a viable, relatively inexpensive alternative to pharmaceuticals that they are comfortable administering themselves. Patients know when they are sufficiently medicated without having to pay for repeated visits to the doctor to have their dosages monitor. A lot of the news I am reading as of late appears to be heading down a road of "we can't control legal cannabis, so lets control the process by which a patient gains access to it, the doctors recommendation and forcing rules upon it".

This is blatantly wrong in our opinion. A doctor/patient relationship is not something that should be governed or maintained in a fashion that is destructive to the patient just because of the unjust attitude towards this miracle plant. We have to remember that this is not about control or money, it is about the well being of the patients that are benefiting from the medicinal uses of cannabis.

We tend to get side tracked nowadays when we discuss topics of contention, but the fact of the matter is that we have to recognize the reason the law exists and look at it from that sole perspective, not the perspective of our political party or our religious affiliations or anything else. The medical marijuana laws in the states that have them are for the sole benefit of the patient. Lets remember that and start making it more accessible to the patients that can so they can live their lives to the fullest.

Patients are actively seeking doctors willing to do consultation reviews for medical cannabis recommendations, not for another primary care physician, and we get daily calls for the names and numbers of doctors offering this service from all over the state. If you're a doctor interested in learning more about the Montana Medical Marijuana Program and how you can be an active part of it and the financial benefits associated with it, contact us today!

¹ "Physician" means a person who holds a degree as a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy and who has a valid license to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine in this state. Reference: Montana Code Annoted http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/37/3/37-3-102.htm