Yeah, it would have to be a CBS affiliate trying to take down medical marijuana, huh?
Well, here’s a fun little story that will have every reefer mad medical marijuana-hating prohibitionist saying, “See, we told you so!”
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ? Los Angeles is about to implement some of the toughest restrictions in the state on medical marijuana dispensaries. But in an exclusive CBS 2 News hidden-camera investigation, we went undercover into medical clinics and found that recommendations for medical marijuana are being sold without ever seeing a doctor.
We found a man, who answers to the name of Dr. Scott, when he provides patients with what amounts to a prescription for medical marijuana. We don’t know if he was smoking some of his own medicine or tobacco, when we caught him smoking a pipe in his car outside the clinic. But we do know he is not a doctor.
David Goldstein: “How do you do that? Only a doctor can give out recommendations?”
Dr. Scott: “I don’t have to talk to you, dude.”
Undercover producer: “I’m confused. Is this a doctor’s office?”
“Yes it is.”
At another location across town, a place bills itself as a doctor’s office, but when we were there, there was no doctor, just prescriptions for sale and medical marijuana.
We found it over and over — obtaining certificates to buy medical marijuana without ever seeing a doctor.
With one of these cards or certificates, small amounts of pot become legal in California! With one you can buy marijuana at hundreds of dispensaries, like one we found in the L.A. area.
The law says in order to get a certificate, you have to be recommended by a doctor, but that is not what we found.
Now of course I personally don’t think an adult needs anyone’s permission to ingest cannabis, so whether or not Californians are actually seeing doctors to get their recommendation doesn’t bother me. But California has a situation tokers in 49 states envy – you can visit a doctor for a brief exam and pay for a piece of paper that allows you to go into a store to select from various strains of high-grade cannabis – and a greedy few want to jeopardize that by taking a shortcut around the whole “brief exam” portion?
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i hear u on that man … i was a victim of ccc aswell!
Hello, I am one of the thousands of suckers duped by Cannabis Card Center. I am a long term chronic pain sufferer with arthritis as well and I was told MM would be a good alternative to addictive opiates and tranqs like “xanax” well walla MM helped with almost every condition I had, just dosing once at night and using an edible or two daily I saw future hope. Then the bomb dropped when my Finance and I try ed to check out a new dispensary we were shown a list and told we could not enter. We drove to the CCC where we got our cards and the office was picked clean like a chicken bone. Nothing was left and no way to contact the service that verifies, just a busy signal when called. Since then I have continued to frequent shops I was all ready registered at and only one has denyed me access. Lucky for me with a bunk card I can still use 5 places or so to purchase my medicine. CCC and its associates should be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for taking my Sixty dollars then vanishing into thin air. I am now forced to redo the process and find a new doctor that wont dupe or take advantage of my disability, so I’m back to percocet and soma for pain and klonopin to sleep. I wish there was help out there for the screwed ones such as me.
Bob
[...] marijuana patients are faking. So long as the prohibition profit exists, there will always be these CBS Undercover investigations casting a pall on all legitimate medical marijuana because of the irresponsible acts of a [...]
I wish I could go to a doctor, or anybody, really, and get a recommendation for a non-toxic herb that would help me with my extreme neuropathy. Oxycontin didn’t do SHIT for me… now I’m on a cocktail of hydrocodone, Xanax, Elavil, Tramadol and Lyrica… still no relief, or very little. But I’m sure I’ll have some organ damage from this, as my pain doc told me I could “take 800 milligrams of ibuprofen two or three times a day” to augment the useless narcotics, tranquilizers and anitdepressants I’m taking.
I hope we get this stuff legal soon for everybody, not just sick people. Everyone needs to relax with a safe recreational herb that won’t give them a hangover.
I wish we could “un-elect” Obama right now, for even suggesting that repulsive Bush-era holdover Leonhart for the DEA top job. She likes arresting patients. SHE should be arrested.
CBS should get a life; California’s getting around the loophole, BFD! If our nation’s capital can legalize MMJ, shouldn’t it be that way throughout the nation? WTF, over?
As an Ohioan envy of what the Calis got I would like to tell them to stop before they screw it up for all! Just wait till the November initiative passes then have your greedy field day legallyª