Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Medial Marijuana in Nursing Homes?

"When states began embracing medical marijuana, few anticipated this inevitable scenario: patients using it would grow older, and many would need to enter assisted living and nursing homes."
Original Article 

     Nursing and medical homes get a lot of their funding from the government depending on Medicare and Medicaid. Now that the legalization on marijuana is on the ballot, many nursing homes wonder how the funding from the government will work because originally it was illegal for anyone in the nursing home to be using medical marijuana. If their patients are using medical marijuana to relieve pain, the home may receive less money from the government.

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