STATE BILL COLORADO
One Colorado doctor wrote 18 percent, or approximately 2,850, of all authorizations for medical marijuana in Colorado, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health and Environment said Friday.
The doctor can’t be legally identified under the law that voters passed in 2000 that allowed the use by certain patients of marijuana for medicinal purposes, said Mark Salley, the spokesman. A total of 15,800 people were on the marijuana registry as of Wednesday; around 29,000 people have submitted applications.
Salley did disclose that the top 10 doctors wrote 66 percent of all authorizations. On Thursday, the department revealed (in a press release, published below) that 15 doctors wrote 73 percent, or nearly three quarters, of all medical-marijuana authorizations.
Do we also check to see which doctors recommend the most oxycontin, valium, prozac, vicodin, etc.???? Just because there’s one bad apple, doesn’t mean that the whole barrel is bad. At the end of the day, it’s about helping real patients while regulating the industry to make sure dispensaries aren’t excessive (search for Hollywood, CA on http://www.weedneedz.com to see how bad it can get).