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Patients Use CannabisFor the first time ever in California, a Marin General Hospital may soon allow patients to openly use cannabis inside. Patients would be allowed to consume cannabis any way other than smoking. One retired physician is daringly blazing the way towards accepted cannabis use in California hospitals.

Dr. Larry Bedard serves on the Marin Healthcare District board and is a retired emergency medicine physician himself. His plan is simple and direct. “I want to have Marin General be the first hospital in California to openly and transparently allow patients to use medical cannabis,” Bedard proudly stated to the Marin Independent Journal last month. Bedard is heavily involved with the cannabis industry, penning a rebuttal to the argument for Proposition 64. Bedard also served on a California Medical Association task force and his actions led to the association recommending the legalization of cannabis.

This is normalization happening right before our eyes. “I know that it happens that it’s being used in the hospital, but it’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” Bedard told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s kind of wink-and-nod medicine.”

Bedard authored a resolution to allow cannabis and submitted it before the Marin Healthcare District at a board meeting. The Marin Healthcare district oversees what goes on at Marin General Hospital. Some members of the board approve of the idea. “I think it is a fantastic idea,” said Frederick Mayer, a retired Marin physician and fellow board member. By allowing cannabis on site, the hospital risks the threat of a conviction for a federal crime or losing its DEA registration which would mark the end for that hospital.

If Bedard’s resolution is approved, the hospital staff would begin a review process to determine who needs cannabis for medical purposes.

As far as the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis, Bedard would know. “As an emergency physician, I know that marijuana is safer than alcohol,” Bedard said in his initial statement. The racial disparity within California is part of what drives him.

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