Nurses using pot

[Kashia]

To restate my last thread regarding medical marijuana:

what is known about NURSES that smoke pot for medical reasons and have a recommendation themselves (I'm not referring to their patients.)

Do you know of any nurses with a legal ok to use pot, that do use it and what do employers think of this?

[LPNer]

It's on the list of banned substances that the Intervention Project for nurses here in Florida allows their participants to use. So, I sincerely doubt, even with a script, one would be allowed to work. I certainly wouldn't want to work beside a legally stoned nurse. Even if it's medically necessary, it impairs the nurse so he/she can't function. If they are that sick that they need it, they aren't going to be working anyway.

To the poster above, just because a medicine is legally prescribed, doesn't mean a nurse can take it and practice.

I also said it can not interfere with her duties. That's where the difference lies.

Weed causes a lot of behavioral and cognative changes, but the effects do not last forever, not even the 72 hour 1/2 life of the drug.

Using and abusing are two very different things.

Lasting forever is one of the debates for using it, but, practical eveidence does not prove that weed will casue permanent changes in a persons behavior/abilities as a nurse.

[3KittiesRN]

I also said it can not interfere with her duties. That's where the difference lies.

Weed causes a lot of behavioral and cognative changes, but the effects do not last forever, not even the 72 hour 1/2 life of the drug.

Using and abusing are two very different things.

Lasting forever is one of the debates for using it, but, practical eveidence does not prove that weed will casue permanent changes in a persons behavior/abilities as a nurse.

I agree with you