Doctor-patient Relationship In all three of the individual states under discussion, the practitioner is required to have a bona fide relationship with the patient to recommend marijuana treatment. Eleven of the fourteen of the professionals and experts interviewed made mention of the importance of doctor-patient relationship as a means of protecting vulnerable populations. It hinges on the patient 's honesty in self-reporting an accurate medical history, including mental illnesses or other mental health conditions, and the ethics of the practitioners and the pharmacists that are working the medical marijuana programs. As stated, the best protection is that there is a genuine relationship between the patient and the physician; it is
Doctor-patient Relationship In all three of the individual states under discussion, the practitioner is required to have a bona fide relationship with the patient to recommend marijuana treatment. Eleven of the fourteen of the professionals and experts interviewed made mention of the importance of doctor-patient relationship as a means of protecting vulnerable populations. It hinges on the patient 's honesty in self-reporting an accurate medical history, including mental illnesses or other mental health conditions, and the ethics of the practitioners and the pharmacists that are working the medical marijuana programs. As stated, the best protection is that there is a genuine relationship between the patient and the physician; it is