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Little medical scrutiny in medical pot screenings

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2016

Many doctors decline to prescribe marijuana because they doubt its medical efficacy, don’t have time for the paperwork or worry that weed remains illegal under federal law. Legislators circumvented this by allowing pot prescriptions by nurse practitioners, who have advanced training and already were able to prescribe certain drugs.