Vail Daily, 13 Oct 2010 – Medical marijuana? People have told me that to write on this issue is to never work again. Unless you’re against it, of course, which is somehow "mainstream," even though it was approved by a majority vote. Larry Brooks, a local emergency-room physician, or more accurately, the doctor whose company provides all of the physician staff members for our local emergency rooms and many urgent-care clinics, recently expressed his thoughts concerning medical marijuana. Brooks said, "The chances that there are 743 people in Eagle County with debilitating illnesses that require marijuana use are non-existent. Their debilitating diagnoses would not be able to be confirmed by any reputable physician in more than 10 percent of these cases, and many have not tried normal evidence-based therapy." He concluded, "If marijuana is going to be available for care purposes, it should be highly regulated, quality controlled and dispensed by registered pharmacists."