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Dr Seidel suggested a unified national
approach was needed to fix the problem.
"What we are currently seeing is that
individual states are dreaming up their own
schemes — you know, putting some amount
of funding in there, [and] putting a lot
expectations out there on patients and on
practitioners," he said.
"What we are seeing is the patients that
potentially would benefit from medicinal
cannabis still don't get it and practitioners
who would like to prescribe it still are not able
to prescribe it."
There is currently no timeline on a decision
regarding the pending applications before the
Health and Human Services Department.
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