Pot Patch For Pets?

"Stop us if this sounds weird. Since veterinary practitioners are not licensed health care professionals, they cannot prescribe cannabis as medication for pets. The law also states that a qualifying patient is a person. So you can effectively manage your pain, reduce arthritic swelling and combat some of the symptoms of cancer patients, but if the domestic animal under your care has these same ailments, they will have to try expensive and sometimes life-threatening prescription drugs at a premium price to you. Because you love your pet, you don’t want to see him suffer…

This is the kind of hypocrisy that really just demeans our entire community. A Seattle company started by Jim Alekson, bought the patent for a specific patch system from a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo Tribe in New Mexico. He has been testing this method of delivering medicine to the blood stream via this and other topical products. His hope is to get it approved for veterinary use and eventually provide this product to humans.​

As patients do we feel this method would be an improvement on ingestion and other forms of medicating that doesn’t involve burning the plant and inhaling? New technology and improved delivery methods only provide more options, and we have always been thankful for having a choice. But why is this question being raised now? Medical marijuana has been legal for people in this State since 1998.

Typically products are tested on animals, then are approved for human trials, then approved for use with a doctor’s prescription. And in this case we are so worried about the outcomes of medicating for our pet that we figure we’ll try it first and see if it’s okay? No, that ain’t it. It’s more incongruence in the law. It’s more fodder for all of us that feel the legislation on this issue is a joke. It’s the ultimate punch line.​

Bring some common sense back into the picture and stop giving authorized patients (and their pets) the run around.​

This isn’t a dog park after all…"​