Medical Marijuana Physicians Cropping Up in Arkansas
Dr. Post is among 16 Arkansas Medical Board-licensed physicians, who by law must also have pharmaceutical prescription authority, who’ve stepped forward so far to certify patients for medical marijuana.
Inside Dr. Tammy Post’s medical clinic lobby on Willow Springs Road in Johnson, a silvery wall fountain trickles; beyond the water feature is a spacious suite of examination rooms.
Post, a board certified family and osteopathic medical practitioner says she’s interested in alternative medicine but never imagined she would become an advocate for medical marijuana.
“I was one of those doctors that thought marijuana was all the myths we believed about a gateway drug,” she says. “I believed it to be illicit and dangerous, like ecstasy and heroin and cocaine.”
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