Until April 2014, these patients can purchase their supply from a licensed personal producer, or they can get permission to grow it themselves, but soon every Canadian medical marijuana user will be forced to comply with a new medical program that will push them to buy legal, medical weed from commercial government-regulated facilities.
Until April 2014, these patients can purchase their supply from a licensed personal producer, or they can get permission to grow it themselves, but soon every Canadian medical marijuana user will be forced to comply with a new medical program that will push them to buy legal medical weed from commercial government-regulated facilities.
Further, it appears that access to information is a problem for the country's 40,000 medical weed patients: "They haven't done much to inform doctors or the public about how to access their new medical marijuana program," said Matt Mernagh, a crusader for the legalization of marijuana who personally uses marijuana to treat his seizures, scoliosis, and fibromyalgia.
It soon expanded to allow people to get a medical weed card in the state of California over the phone in under 10 minutes.
But Oakland isn't the only city to pull in big revenue on medical weed sales.
They've got the monopoly on medical weed.
Coats could be the poster child for medical weed.
But he said there's a difference between the black market and medical weed.
And if it had gone the way Health Canada had originally planned, these new factories would not only have an exclusive market to the 40,000 patients in the medical marijuana program, but by allowing doctors to directly prescribe weed to new patients, their market would grow exponentially.
