Kentucky’s medical marijuana program is set to begin in January, when eligible doctors will be able to prescribe it to patients with state permission. Dr. Kimberly Case is a family practitioner who works at hospitals in Frankfort, Danville and Louisville.
“Practicing as a hospitalist, I run into patients often, who are using it sort of off label, on the downlow. And a lot of times those patients are people with those conditions.”
Case said some of those patients use Marinol, a manufactured form of cannabis.
“My whole plan with regard to all of this was sort of to see what the interest was to begin with, and then figure out whether I have enough interest in patients looking into it, and then I would try to arrange for an outpatient office that I could use as needed.”
Among the conditions making patients eligible for medical marijuana are chronic pain, PTSD, cancer, chronic nausea and several others.
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