It seems like more and more medical marijuana clinics are popping up offering marijuana cards.    For patients who do a simple google search or look the local OC Weekly there are tons of ads advertising doctors recommendations for marijuana.    For many patients this is a very intimidating process and they want to go [...]

Since proposition 215 was passed in 1996 by California voters patients have been able to use medical marijuana legally.  However, because of lack of accurate information the majority of California patients have no idea that they would even qualify to use medical marijuana.   This blog post will walk you through whether or not you [...]

In April 2003 Dr. Sean Breen was the medical officer for 1st Battalion 4th Marines 1st Marine Division and in charge of the care of 1000 United States Marines as they marched up the road to Baghdad to remove Saddam Hussein from power.   During that month, his CO tasked him with the transport and [...]

Since 2008 Dr. Sean Breen has been performing medical marijuana evaluations to patients in the Long Beach community.   His office is conveniently located at the Los Altos Medical Plaza next to Long Beach State.   To present he has discussed this medication with over 10,000 patients who have tried to qualify under Proposition 215 [...]

The medical marijuana industry in California has been on a roller coaster ride since 2008 when President Obama took office. We witnessed a small niche community explode into a mainstream industry with doctors offices and dispensaries popping up across the state. The federal government went from a posture of “the big bad wolf” to little [...]

Since 2008 Dr. Sean Breen has been the medical director for Medical Cannabis of Southern California. During that time he has treated several hundred HIV+ patients with medical marijuana. His clinic is located adjacent to the Aids Services Foundation of Orange County in Irvine and it has been a blessing for both Dr. Breen and [...]

Some times you need to hear it directly from the horses mouth.   This week I invited an investigating officer (law enforcement) from the California Medical Board to my office to discuss what is truly the standard of care when recommending marijuana to patients.   There is a lot of misinformation on the internet and [...]

Recently there has been 3 more “$25 medical marijuana clinics” shut down because of non-compliance with the California Medical Boards standard of care.    Two of the closures were due to “aiding and abetting an illegal medical practice” and one was for unethical advertising. Today one of my patients (57 year old man) who received [...]

Today in Irvine I took care of a 57 year old women named Pam who had a recurrence of her Breast cancer and is undergoing a second round of chemotherapy and radiation (ends Feb 2012)   She is using medical marijuana because it significantly reduced her nausea, improved her appetite and “took my mind off [...]

Recently I have seen two dozen patients who have come to me because their dispensaries are refusing to honor their doctors recommendation.  The reason?   The clinics where the doctors are working a turning out to be illegal medical practices and the medical board is catching on.    This has been an ongoing issue and [...]