A Hard Position Placed Upon Doctors

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California Medical Association recently passed the law allowing doctors to prescribe Medical Marijuana. A Sacramento physician, Dr. Donald Lyman, shows his ambivalence towards this subject. He states that Marijuana is the first drug largely advocated to be legalized in the United States and that California is one of the only states in the U.S. that has legislation allowing the consumption of marijuana. This is a hard situation for doctors to prescribe marijuana because the federal law states that it is an illegal drug, however, the state law says doctors are legally (morally comes into the minds of the doctors) able to prescribe the drug. He believes that the criminalization of perpetrators using the drug is far worse than the hazards of the drug and it should be maintained like alcohol but be legal.