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A doctor can recommend you medical cannabis in a matter of minutes in an online interview. But if you’ve got cancer or persistent insomnia and you need to see a real-life specialist, your best option is to visit Dr. Frank Lucido in his comfortable offices on a tree-lined street in Berkeley. Dr. Lucido is the very definition of a medical cannabis doctor — a family and general practitioner since 1979 who started recommending cannabis soon after the state’s Compassionate Use Act took effect in 1996. He and his nurse practitioner, Maria Mangini, aren’t in the cannabis-card business — they’re in the healthcare business.