Do You Support the Use of Therapeutic Marijuana?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

first posted in nursing activism

https://allnurses.com/t41794.html

from psna update email :

http://www.psna.org

do you support the use of therapeutic marijuana?

at the recent ana house of delegates meeting, ana approved a resolution that supports the use of medical marijuana/cannabis. specifically the resolution stated that ana:

*support research on the therapeutic efficacy of marijuana/cannabis

*support right of patient to have access to therapeutic marijuana/cannabis under appropriate prescriber supervision

*support health care providers discussion or recommendation to use medicinal marijuana/cannabis

*support legislation to remove criminal penalties for bona fide patients and prescribers of therapeutic marijuana/cannabis

*support federal and state legislation to exclude marijuana/cannabis from classification as a schedule i drug

*support the education of rn's regarding current evidence-based therapeutic use of marijuana/cannabis

psna would like to hear from you so as to determine how pa nurses feel about this issue. what do you think of ana's support for therapeutic marijuana/cannabis use? should psna adopt a similar position? please share your comments with michele campbell, psna executive administrator at [email protected] or 1-888-707-7762, ext. 200.

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

No worse than all the other legal drugs that are prescribed mowadays. Makes for happy nurses.

[Rapheal]

Absolutely. Especially for patients who have n/v due to chemotherapy. We should not deny a patient a drug that will help them just because it is used as a recreational drug.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Absolutely. I also support its legalization and taxation, just like booze and cigarettes, for personal use.

[MtnMan]

What they said

[fab4fan]

Absolutely...if it is being used for a therapeutic reason, why not? I also don't think it should be just limited to people with terminal illnesses; there are many diseases that cause severe pain/nausea, and if it helps, terrific.

[dawngloves, BSN, RN]

How is organic (real weed) different from Marinol?

[obeyacts2]

I think it should be legal for the terminal pts. Come on, compared to morphine, Oxy, etc marijuana is Nothing!!!!!!!!!

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

Ditto all the above. Absolutely.

[dawngloves, BSN, RN]

Seriously! Can anyone explain to me how the phamacology is different? Or is it?

[night owl]

I say absolutely, without question.

[MandyInMS]

I'm not advocating drug abuse or anything..but if helps someone why notttt? As a former 'wild child' I smoked pot, drank,ect,ect...I had it down pat...1 mixed drink, then smoke, then I could drink all night without bowing to the 'porcelien(sp?) goddess' aka puking my guts up. I think it would work wonders for all the chemo pts with severe nausea.