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Companies Blanket PA With Ads About How to Get a Medical Marijuana Card, But Doctors are Silenced

By Soapbox Group
May 27, 2022
  • Pennsylvania
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By: Ed Mahon

When Pennsylvania lawmakers legalized medical cannabis in 2016, they struck an unusual deal: Physicians can approve patients for the program but they are banned from advertising that power.

Lawmakers feared advertising would encourage thousands of patients to flood the same doctor’s office solely seeking a medical marijuana card, or motivate physicians to excessively approve patients for profit.

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