“If cannabis is medicine, why is the system built as if it were only a retail commodity?”
By Jordan Tishler, MD, Association of Cannabinoid Specialists
Currently, medical cannabis programs across the United States are dwindling. This is directly a result of these programs being deprioritized in favor of recreational programs and being regulated in a manner that neither provides support to clinicians to do their jobs, nor value to patients who need safe, effective products and expert medical guidance to achieve benefit.
Among the many problems baked into these medical cannabis programs, the financial requirements to become a medical dispensary actually disincentivize dispensaries from participating.
States must overhaul cannabis rules to make it feasible—and attractive—for dispensaries to prioritize medical patients instead of treating them as an afterthought in a recreational market.
What Eastham Shows Us
A recent article in the Provincetown Independent discusses the issues confronting the owners of a dispensary in Eastham, Massachusetts who have decided to swim upstream and apply for a medical license—a truly rare occurrence these days. It has to be asked why new medical dispensaries are so rarely opened these days. In fact, Massachusetts has lost a significant number of medical dispensaries in the past
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