Friend of mine went to a doc and complained about an old knee injury to get medical weed and the doc just wink-winked him a prescription.
Then again, I would do it if I was in the US and smoked and anything to decriminalise this is a good thing.
What you do get is a recommendation by a doctor that you would benefit from cannabis. This is a critical difference. It’s merely a doctors opinion you would benefit.
And as many have noted, sone doctors appear to hold the opinion most adults would benefit. They might not be wrong.
Btw, old injuries can have lasting pain for the rest of your life. Difficult to control pain. Medicine recognized this in the 90s, and one result was the opioid crisis. (Turns out opioids aren’t great for chronic pain.)
Oh and it isn’t a bs script either. Because it’s not a script. As I noted above. To quote a certain movie, that’s funny not a single word you just said was correct.
However an opinion is not. Thus building a moral barrier there.
Some other opinions that many doctors have: everyone should drink more water. Everyone should exercise. Many people will get this advice/opinions without a prescription for such.
There is no good decision here, the alternative, refusing on medical ground is not correct either. There is no medical ground to refuse the guy some weed, when it is perfectly legal for him to buy unlimited quantities of alcohol which, medically, is as bad or worse.
In both cases, the law puts the doctor in a position where he needs to bullshit. Some will chose to ignore the global context and look at the patient request in isolation, other will do the opposite.
edit: also "pain" is intrinsically difficult metric for a doctor.
The doctors who do this (largely running a cash-only practice) are really a disgrace to the profession.
It's good to be willing to think outside the box and practice with compassion, but it's another thing entirely to create prescriptions for surreptitious indications that is motivated by personal profit.