DEA Leans on Massachusetts Doctors with Ties to Marijuana DispensariesPhillip Smith The heavy-handed tactic from the prohibition enforcers is working. The Globe interviewed two physicians who promptly severed their ties with dispensaries and a third who instead surrendered his license to prescribe (he said that as part-time surgeon, he didnt need it, although hed had it for 40 years). That could have an impact on the opening of some dispensaries, and that could have an impact on Massachusetts patients, whove already been waiting nearly a year-and-a-half for them to open since voters approved medical marijuana there in November 2012. The DEA doesnt get it. It has already lost this war. Its time for the agency to get out of the way, or better yet, go the way of the dinosaurs. But while the DEA and the prohibition regime it enforces may be dying dinosaurs, those final twitches of the tail still have the power to inflict injury. Better to put the beast out its misery. Phillip Smith writes for StopTheDrugWar.org where this article first appeared. 