Federal drug officials are warning Georgia to shelve its plans to be the first state to allow pharmacies to dispense medical marijuana products.

News outlets report that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Nov. 27 warned pharmacies that dispensing medical marijuana violates federal law.

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    11 months ago

    CVS, Walgreens, etc. all sell alcohol. Walmart and Kroger, which have pharmacies, also sell cigarettes.

    I’m not seeing the problem with weed as well.

    Edit: Come to think of it, I can go to any of those locations today and get CBD products, making this even more ridiculous.

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      11 months ago

      None of them are being recommended by a doctor and sold as medicine.

      I smoke a zip a month. But the medical marijuana industry is just a front for recreational in most states. There are a few pain management and seizure studies that are fairly concrete and reproducible but the “it’ll cure cancer shit” is mostly unstudied and not reproducible. What weed is currently prescribed for is far from passing any FDA regulations.

      Better to drop the bullshit medical side, legalize it recreational, and start taking the medical side seriously instead of lead by norml.

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        Pharmacists are not doctors and they can make their own recommendations and compounds and can dispense them legally if a prescription is not required. The problem here is it’s federally scheduled. If it wasn’t, there would be no issue to have pharmacists dispense it.

        Great, you smoke a little bit a month. I rely on it to help control my very painful nerve disorder via pain modification. I’d love a controlled dose dispensed by a pharmacist rather than ‘put a little bit in the vaporizer and hope it’s enough.’