Are you supposed to tell your doctor if you smoke weed?

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the amount of submission to perceived medical authority in this thread is pretty comical. Do some research on marijuana drug interactions; they don't exist outside of subjective effects when taking antipsychotics.

It's useless information and exposes you to the potential prejudices of the doc, altering his prescribing practices not on the basis of proper medical care but out of liability management. This effect can be overt or hidden; extant or not. Medicine is a business first, and it has to function within the Empire. It's a political reality related to the drug war and is less of a problem in some US states than in others, so your mileage may indeed vary.

When you start to feel sick the first confounding variable you need to remove is drug use. I don't really get how you could need to say to a doc that you smoke weed unless you're a degenerate daily weedsmoker who is allowing addiction to fuck with his health. If you're not at that point, why would you choose to have this datapoint added to your NSA file?