In today’s health care many patients are using medical marijuana to help them with their illnesses especially if they are terminal. In the United States eight states have legalized medical marijuana and there is an estimate of about 35,000 patients using it for their medical conditions. Not all physicians approve prescribing cannabis to their patients because they believe that marijuana is not a …show more content…
A patient may know that using marijuana is not right but because of its effects they find it suitable for their illness. Professional codes of conduct impact medical marijuana due to the fact that not many physicians approve the use of the cannabis so they do not prescribe it to their patients and the patients have to take medication that has so many negative effects that harms the patient. Also the patient might use the cannabis without any medical consent thus if caught committing a crime because the health professional did not feel the need to prescribe the