The Colorado Medical Board recently introduced certain policy alterations that both patients and industry leaders are worried will terminate the state’s medical marijuana program.
A report published by The Denver Post implies that the proposed amendments would pressure doctors to jump over additional obstacles, including upping their game in the area of pain management and testing for pregnancy during the initial testing, in order to progress with writing medical marijuana recommendations.
Just thinking that Colorado could be working to direct medical marijuana patients into the recreational space, of course, has created an almost riotous response from the public. So far, hundreds have stepped up to express their thoughts over the state’s efforts to rid the untaxed medical marijuana program.
Officials with the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) are stating that supporters if medical marijuana are spinning the proposed recommendations into a bigger issue than what they really are, suggesting the proposal is simply a set of guidelines and nothing that will be considered legally binding to the healthcare industry.
“This is just very much guidance to licensed physicians who are considering making medical marijuana recommendations,” Cory Everett, chief of staff for DORA’s Division of Professional and Occupation, said. “It’s adopting guidance, it’s adopting a policy. It’s not statute or a rule.”
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