WHY IT MATTERS: Patients should know that physicians prescribing medical cannabis are professionally accountable to the same regulatory bodies and clinical standards as any other prescriber, which means your care should meet the same quality benchmarks you would expect from any other specialist. CLINICAL OVERVIEW: Medical cannabis prescribing sits within the same regulatory and professional accountability frameworks that govern all other areas of clinical medicine, meaning physicians who authorize cannabis are held to identical standards of documentation, clinical reasoning, and patient safety as those prescribing any other controlled substance. Regulators expect practitioners to demonstrate evidence-based decision-making, informed consent processes, and ongoing monitoring of patient outcomes.