That's what I thought too.

Tell your roomie to get on it. :)

This thread is still open? Wow...

Off the top of my head I can't recall. If I get a chance, I'll look into it.

But even if it has, I'm not at all sure the Court would go so far as to say it protects a right to use a drug that the federal government has criminalized.

Americans for Safe Access claims that HIPAA protects medical marijuana use, but they also spell it HIPPA so...

I always lol when people do that. Hippos on the brain no doubt. :)

HIPAA doesn't protect the use of it (or anything else) as a concept, all it does is makes sure your employer doesn't know what you're taking and why.

Doesn't HIPAA also affect precisely how the doctor handles your medical records? I'm not saying it protects the right to use per se, but the right to privacy for the treatment/care you receive from a doctor seems like it would include prescription THC.

/THC is so much easier to type than marijuana.

Really? I don't mind typing either, in fact, I kind of like typing the other word. The dots aligning looks interesting to me. Not sure why.

Back on topic, that's what I meant when I was wondering about the 9th amendment protecting doctor-patient confidentiality. If the doctor does prescribe it than what could your employer do? Obviously again this would be if it became federally legal and not just by state but it is an interesting concept.

I type THC/COC/OPI a lot for work. 3 letter abbreviations make me happy. Clients who use drugs do not.

Yeah my oh so cursory google search led me to no help, but maybe MC will turn up with something. I wonder if it's likely that it just hasn't come up at this point.

Yes. That too. In other words if your lazy ass husband is having a problem with his medication you can't call the doctor and talk to him about it, lazy ass has to do it himself. :) Unfortunately all this stuff is pretty much shutting the barn door after the horse is out and several countries away.

Is this the blurb on the ASA (lol) site you were talking about?

That's just....odd. I mean the concept of the card with the photo being "confidential." The pharmacist doesn't give a shit what you're taking (other than interactions). I guess they're afraid of people breaking into pharmacies or something.

On another note: Someone explain how marijuana helps anorexia. Yes you might get the munchies more, but if you're a full blown anorexic, fighting the super-munchies and winning will give you even more of a feeling of accomplishment, taking you even deeper into the disease.

Yeah I want to hear the explanation for that, too. I think you hit the nail on the head...it could make the situation even worse.

"Anorexia", by itself, just means lack of appetite, which is common with many medications and serious diseases. No matter how much the person knows they have to eat, they find it difficult to do so and drop weight rapidly. They may attempt to force food down and find themselves unable to do so.

What you are referring to is anorexia nervosa, which marijuana likely wouldn't help for the reasons you listed.

My bad. They do say just "anorexia" on their site - however, I really wonder why they would want to use that term since a lot of people reading it may assume the same thing I did.

The thing is the Ninth Amendment doesn't really confer any rights, the privacy decisions notwithstanding. The prevailing interpretation of it is this: The listing of rights in the Bill of Rights is not intended to be exclusive, so the government can't deny someone a particular right solely on the grounds that the right is not listed in the Bill of Rights. But if the Constitution grants the government the power to do something and the government acts within that authority, then one cannot claim under the Ninth Amendment that one's "unenumerated" (not listed) rights have been violated.

SInce SCOTUS has held that Congress has the power to classify certain drugs and substances and to regulate if and how they may be manufactured, possessed and distributed, I have a really hard time imagining that a successful Ninth Amendment claim could be made.

They should probably clarify it because I do think most people would assume that's what they mean by anorexia. Maybe they just want to sound more medical, and hope that makes them look more reputable???

True. I haven't looked at the website, but (generally) if a site is for a "lay person" it's preferable to use common lingo, so mix-ups don't happen... like confusion over how anorexia nervosa is treated with marijuana. You want to avoid as much confusion as possible.