| One is allowed to use medical marijuana legally under | | | | Proposition 215 protects them from criminal fines and |
| CA State law if you have been medically examined | | | | arrest for smoking marijuana medically if they have |
| by a medical doctor and written out a Physician | | | | been awarded a medical marijuana card. Only people |
| Statement and Recommendation Letter. The | | | | who have been properly evaluated and have |
| evaluation is to verify if you will find freedom from | | | | obtained their doctor's recommendation to consume |
| the symptoms of the illness you are suffering. | | | | cannabis in medical therapy can take advantage of |
| The Medical Board of CA has written that medicinal | | | | Proposition 215 as a lawful protection against criminal |
| marijuana is a rising treatment modality. CA Prop 215, | | | | pot complaints. |
| known as The Compassionate Care Act of 1996, | | | | A medical physician must examine and establish |
| includes in part: | | | | whether or not prescription marijuana would be an |
| To ensure that desperately sick Californians have the | | | | appropriate method for a specific ailment. A lot of |
| right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes | | | | the persons who partake in marijuana as a medicine |
| where the medical consumption is deemed useful and | | | | suffer from glaucoma while many other people have |
| has been recommended by a medical doctor who | | | | reported that it aids treat symptoms of epilepsy and |
| has found out that the person's health could gain a | | | | other diseases in which muscle spasms or seizures |
| benefit from the use of pot in the treatment of | | | | are regular occurrences. Be appreciative though, that |
| migraine or any other disease for which marijuana | | | | only suffering one of these illnesses mentioned |
| offers Relief. | | | | previously does not instantly qualify anyone for the |
| Proposition 215 was outlined to allow the use of | | | | pot exemption under Proposition 215. Just medical |
| medical cannabis by seriously and terminally ill persons. | | | | marijuana doctors approvals can facilitate that. |