// Definition
The fundamental obstacle to cannabis acceptance in mainstream medicine: the US healthcare system lives and dies by FDA approval. Doctors can only work with FDA-approved, insurance-reimbursable drugs, meaning even when patients report cannabis is helping them, hospitals must treat it as unofficial and hush-hush.
// From the Episode
Dr. Ryman shares that even in Northern California where cannabis was legal, the hospital told her they would not kick her out for using cannabis but could not pretend to know about it because it was not FDA approved. Healthcare is fundamentally a business - unless the US shifts to a patient-centered rather than profit-centered model, dangerous drugs will continue to be pushed while effective plant medicines are ignored. 400 people die every 30 days from opioid/fentanyl overdose in British Columbia alone.
// Source
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