The Connecticut Medical Examining Board agreed Tuesday not to discipline an Ansonia doctor for his previous cannabis use.
State Department of Public Health investigators recommended in 2022 that the board order discipline against the medical license of Dr. Jonathan Simon of Ansonia on claims he used marijuana to “excess” prior to November 2021 and also was diagnosed with a mental health condition, according to state documents.
But during a hearing with three board members in February, Simon was able to demonstrate that he had not used marijuana in about two years and that his mental health condition has been in “remission” during the same period.
Based on the results of the hearing, the board agreed Tuesday to forego disciplining Simon for his previous marijuana use or his mental health status since there was also no evidence that either hampered his practice of medicine.
In other news, the board agreed Tuesday to revoke the Connecticut medical license of a California physician who has been similarly disciplined in several other states because of his mental health, DPH documents said.
The case involving Dr. Roozbeh Badii has been lingering for years, with the California physician allowed to practice telehealth in Connecticut for a period of time as other states conducted their investigations of claims he was mentally unfit to practice.
The DPH submitted a statement of charges against Badii in 2022 after the agency learned he was not cooperating with an Ohio investigation looking into whether his mental health made him unfit to practice. He or his attorney did not attend a hearing before members of the Connecticut Medical Examining Board on the allegations, documents said.
