Why Bay Area Nurses Are Educating Themselves About Pot

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Cannabis buds are weighed out before being packaged at a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED

By Andrew Stelzer, The California Report/KQED News Fix

It’s brisk business on a Wednesday morning at Magnolia Wellness center, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Oakland. Although it’s legal to smoke marijuana in California now for recreational purposes, medicinal cannabis isn’t going away anytime soon.

But have these patients ever talked to their regular doctor or nurse about medical marijuana?

Read the complete story at The California Report/KQED News Fix.

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