None of the primary care doctors will give out recommendations because they give up the federal license to dispense narcotics when they do that!
I'm not so certain about that. E.G. Our county's public health director is also a primary care physician (or, as they were called in the old days, a general practitioner) who still has an active practice. He does have some very sick, terminal patients for whom he writes recommendations. He will not write for pain or anything non-terminal. He's still able to write any Rx for his patients as well.
That said, many doctors are ignorant of what can and cannot be done legally, and my own recommending doctor focuses
only on recommendations and no scrips in order to avoid trouble. He fully believes in cannabis as medicine, too, absolutely enthusiastic about it, and personally I think THAT is what Joe Public would like to see happening rather than the cheap pot docs a la Medi-Cann, who are likely really just "Hollywood" docs (the docs you get sent to after you lawyer up post-accident, many of these docs are just piss poor doctors, IMO/IME).
This limits the drug prescriptions for some very sick people and for those who have broken bones to thoughts who have had operations and are on the mend. No primary care doctor would limit their ability to help patients under their care like that. Then you have the legislators who would be in charge of who qualifies for MMJ treatment instead of specialists and they would also be able to limit the specialists, also cutting down mmj usages. The whole reason behind this is to slow the flow of mmj in the state and make money off the sick people who do qualify. It`s and end game. Just more control freaks!
And doctors are not already given substance abuse training in school? I`d think that would already be part of training to become a doctor! This is pure krap!
Specialties, and you've only got 12yrs to get your basic medical degree. After that, you specialize, and that's anywhere from 2-4 years additional training (for anyone who wonders why they're paid so much, etc, consider just the schooling, then add to that malpractice premiums which are typically equal to an excellent annual salary). They can only stuff so much in, ya dig?