PA pulls license of 'America's Medical Marijuana Doctor'

By Galen Moore – The Philadelphia Business Journal

Apr 18, 2019, 7:22am EDT Updated 2 hours ago

The Philadelphia physician who styles himself "America's Medical Marijuana Doctor" has lost his license to practice medicine after a state psychiatric evaluation. The evaluation followed the doctor's attempt to buy a handgun and a series of ranting YouTube videos.

State documents described Matthew Roman Roman as "unable to practice the profession with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of illness or addiction to drugs,” according to Philly.com. Roman runs Nature’s Way Medicine, a doctor's office Old City, where patients could pay $200 for a "recommendation," like a prescription, for medicinal marijuana.

Roman is a prolific YouTuber. According to Philly.com, the Nature's Way YouTube channel is characterized by "long agitated rants about his relationships with women, his thoughts about the medical profession, and his love of marijuana while smoking a joint." State officials say “displayed a problematic pattern of cannabis use leading to clinically significant impairment."

Roman, 34, himself a registered medical marijuana patient, declined to comment, according to the Philly.com, other than to say he would post a response on his YouTube channel, Wednesday evening. As of Thursday morning, the latest video posted there is dated one week ago.

Roman had sued the Trump Administration after a gun dealer, Firing Line of South Philadelphia, refused to sell him a handgun, citing a 1968 law forbidding gun owners from using marijuana, Philly.com reports.

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