Medical Marijuana The California Medical Board Says: "The initial examination for the condition for which Medical Marijuana is being recommended must be in-person." Beware of Doctors Using SKYPE or Video Conferencing!!! Your Medical Marijuana Card or Recommendation May Not Be Valid, Excepted By Police Officers, Judges In Cort or By Medical Marijuana Dispensaries or Coops.   This statement was adopted by the full Medical Board on May 7, 2004. For more information, please see our news release dated May 13, 2004.   On November 5, 1996, the people of California passed Proposition 215. Through this Initiative Measure, Section 11362.5 was…

In the last couple months Medical Marijuana patients have been coming to CannaMed of Thousand Oaks angry that their recommendations letters from other doctor’s offices are not valid. CannaMed investigated and this is what they found. Medical Marijuana patients with a letter of recommendation from a doctor to consume medical marijuana could still be breaking the law and denied their medication by their local dispensary because their Medical Marijuana Doctor does not have a fictitious name filing with the California Medical Board. June of 2011 the California Medical Board sent an announcement to dispensaries across California informing the dispensaries that…