One of last times Dr. David Allen was seen in Sacramento, he had a packed waiting room of patients. They were paying $150 each to see the former Mississippi heart surgeon for medical marijuana recommendations, Peter Hecht reports in his “Weed Wars” blog. To anyone listening, Allen extolled the virtues of a “miracle drug” he said he started using at 17. He also told a reporter he was currently treating himself with pot for decades of accumulated stress as an cardiothoracic surgeon – and for more recent anxiety over his million dollar Mississippi ranch getting [...]
A former Mississippi heart surgeon who later opened a medical marijuana clinic in California was captured on secret recordings urging witnesses to lie in a drug cultivation case in Mississippi, prosecutors said in this Associated Press report from the San Jose Mercury News. The allegation came during a bond hearing for former Pascagoula, Miss., heart surgeon Dr. David Bruce Allen, 53, who is facing drug and witness-tampering charges in Mississippi. Allen, who ran a medical marijuana clinic in Sacramento, was initially arrested in Mississippi in March on charges of marijuana cultivation and sale of controlled [...]
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