Telemedicine Makes It Easy to Get Medical Marijuana

Telemedicine is revolutionizing medicine, connecting doctors and patients quickly while attempting to shave off unnecessary expenses. It turns out the modern electronic convenience includes the $6.7 billion medical marijuana industry, the fastest growing industry in the United States. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where pot and tech start-ups are as ubiquitous as saltwater, California doctors are leveraging basic technology to clear patients of minimal legal hurdles to obtain marijuana. Full legalization for recreational purposes is on the November ballot in California as Proposition 64. For now, patients seeking to obtain a doctor's note for medicinal use only need a computer, internet connection, and a medical necessity. Marijuana is still a Schedule 1 controlled substance under federal law, which means the drug is considered to have no therapeutic use. Nonetheless, marijuana has shown to be effective at treating several conditions, from stimulating the appetites of cancer patients, to lowering the intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. It's also widely used to treat chronic pain. Considering 25 million adults -- myself included -- experience pain daily, treatments need to not only be effective but also free of major long-term consequences. The opioid painkiller epidemic is evidence there needs to be a better option. Many, including those inside the industry, believe cannabis may be one of those options in treating a variety of conditions. So, in the inter...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news