LEGAL ISSUES
California’s Medical Marijuana Laws:
Proposition 215
California Senate Bill 420
Califonia Senate Bill 1494, Amending SB 420
Disclaimer
Allan Frankel, MD can:
Discuss, fully and candidly, the risks and benefits of medical marijuana with patients.
Recommend (or Approve, Endorse, Suggest, or Advise, etc.), in accordance with his medical judgment, marijuana for patient use.
Record in his patients’ charts discussions about and recommendations of medical marijuana.
Sign a government form or otherwise inform state or local officials that he has recommended medical marijuana for particular patients.
Testify in court or through written declaration about recommending medical marijuana for a certain patient.
Educate himself about the medical benefits of marijuana, its various clinical applications, and different routes of ingestion.
Dr. Frankel cannot “prescribe” medical marijuana. He can write a medical marijuana recommendation for a qualified patient in the State of California.
Dr. Frankel cannot assist patients in obtaining marijuana.
Dr. Frankel cannot cultivate or possess marijuana for patient use.
Dr. Frankel cannot physically assist patients in using marijuana.
Dr. Frankel will not recommend marijuana without a justifiable medical cause.
Federal Status & History
Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I substance, defined as having a high potential for abuse and no medicinal value.
It should be noted: In 1978, a “medical necessity” defense for the use of medical marijuana was legally recognized and the Investigational New Drug (IND) compassionate access program was created. The IND, which allowed some patients to receive medical marijuana from the government, was closed in 1992 after it was flooded by applications from AIDS patients. Today, eight surviving patients still receive medical marijuana from the federal government. The conditions that were recognized under the IND were:
1. Severe nausea (commonly associated with HIV/AIDS and cancer);
2. Wasting syndrome (commonly associated with HIV/AIDS);
3. Increased intraocular pressure (commonly associated with glaucoma);
4. Seizures or muscle spasms associated with a chronic, debilitating condition (commonly associated with epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and paraplegia/quadriplegia/hemiplegia); and/or
5. Severe chronic pain (commonly associated with diagnosed paraplegia/quadriplegia/hemiplegia, HIV/AIDS, metastized cancers, and cervical disk disease).
Our Policy
GreenBridge Medical Services, Inc. does not endorse or promote the sale of marijuana. This includes any link to a site that transports, imports into this state, sells, furnishes, administers, gives away, or offers to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, give away, or attempts to import into this state or transport any marijuana. It is a felony to sell, transport, or distribute any amount of marijuana in the State of California. Any attempt to purchase marijuana illegally maybe punished by imprisonment in the state or federal prison or a fine. Any person who uses Prop 215 as a ‘smoke screen’ with intent to sell marijuana is considered a felony, and anyone convicted of such crime will be harshly punished.
Respect Prop 215!