RN with medical marijuana card

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Long time lurker here.

So I have cancer. Papillary Carcinoma of my Thyroid. Diagnosed in 2011. I have one RAI treatment left to use and I am saving that in case it spreads to my bone, lung or brain. Had multiple surgeries on my neck. I now have what my surgeon calls a Chernobyl Necklace. I still have cancer in my neck. This is a strictly surgical disease at this instance, but since tumor is extremely close to my larengeal nerve, surgeon will not operate on it unless it gets larger.

Enter Cannabis Oil.

Studies have shown tumor reduction with the use of topical cannabis oil in my type of cancer.

If I have a medical card, FROM a DOCTOR, would the BON of PA still revoke my license?

Specializes in ICU.

I have nothing to add, except that I sure hope things work out well for you. I am so sorry for what you are going through.

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I'm in PNAP for a DUI. Unless you want to be sitting next to me in the moronic weekly nurses support group and complying will all the BS that goes with this program do not think the medical marijuana card will save you from anything at all. Trust me I got nothing against weed for any purpose but if you pee hot for it they are gonna slap you in the monitoring program and you want no part of that. Good Luck!!!

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Well, honestly how would the BON know? They aren't the ones drug testing me. If my employer and I have an understanding about the cannabis oil and I have a MMJ card so no chance of any fines/jail is gone with Jonny Lawbuckle...How would they ever know?

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...and Spanked, that sucks.

I don't think I would want any part of that.

I am also in Pittsburgh. They make you go downtown for meetings and stuff? How long is that program anyway?

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
youenjoymyself said:
They aren't the ones drug testing me. If my employer and I have an understanding about the cannabis oil and I have a MMJ card so no chance of any fines/jail is gone with Jonny Lawbuckle...How would they ever know?

You really think you and your employer will have an "understanding"? Good luck with that - I say that sincerely, but very skeptically.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

Interesting topic. It has long been held that Cannabis oil applied topically or taken internally is not psychoactive and does not result in a positive urine test for THC. As someone who suffers from chronic pain that is often debilitating I did try cannabis oil capsules for about a month. I felt GREAT! My pain was less, my appetite and sleep improved I was able to cut other pain meds etc... but one day on a whim I gave myself a UDS and tested strongly for THC. Not willing to risk my license I stopped taking it. Back to the TENS and tons of Ibuprophen which will eventually kill my kidneys......

Hppy

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klone said:
You really think you and your employer will have an "understanding"? Good luck with that - I say that sincerely, but very skeptically.

This is hypothetically speaking.

Say I went to a Ma and Pa Kettle owned Home Health Agency, got to know them, informed them of my situation and the agreed to turn their heads of a THC reading in my urine. BON would never know.

I mean...the whole MMJ thing is coming to head anyway, politically. It's only a matter of time before they legalize it. Get the orange clown out of the WH and his DOJ elf, and this will all be water under the bridge.

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Okay, but we have to live in the reality that is NOW, not some hypothetical future.

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klone said:
Okay, but we have to live in the reality that is NOW, not some hypothetical future.

You're right. I am pretty sure I answered my own question, though. BON wouldn't ever know.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Never mind.

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There are a few nurse support meetings in the Pittsburgh Area. I attend on in the South Hills. Anyway, that's putting a lot of trust in your employer. Don't ever make them mad because they will have records of you testing positive for THC if they do random sampling. Further, I'm pretty sure that it is mandatory that they report you. As far as the healing power of marijuana. I totally believe in it and think laws against its consumption are social in nature going back to the "reefer madness" days and are nonsense but they are still the law.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.
hppygr8ful said:
Interesting topic. It has long been held that Cannabis oil applied topically or taken internally is not psychoactive and does not result in a positive urine test for THC. As someone who suffers from chronic pain that is often debilitating I did try cannabis oil capsules for about a month. I felt GREAT! My pain was less, my appetite and sleep improved I was able to cut other pain meds etc... but one day on a whim I gave myself a UDS and tested strongly for THC. Not willing to risk my license I stopped taking it. Back to the TENS and tons of Ibuprophen which will eventually kill my kidneys......

Hppy

This is absolutely not the case. Full spectrum CBD oils contain up to 0.3% THC and many people who take it have popped positive for tests. Isolate CBD claims to have the THC removed but it's no guarantee unless you get 3rd party testing which is prohibitively expensive. I have researched it with a view to using it, after all, it's legal everywhere, however I cannot risk a positive test so I refrain.

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