If you haven’t seen it, check out Weed Wars on the Discovery Channel. It’s fascinating.
I’m curious what it’s like being an MM patient. Does your doc prescribe you a certain amount (like, say, an ounce per month, and a computer keeps track of your purchases)? Or can you buy as much as you like?
How does the quality of the stuff at a dispensary compare to the quality of the stuff on the street? How about the price?
I may think of more questions later.
Two of my ex girlfriends had cards in CA.
The process is a joke. You go to one of the doctors who advertises in the free weekly, pay him $99, tell him you are prone to headaches or anxiety or whatever and he issues you a card. Now you can go into a dispensary and buy weed.
The dispensaries sell pot to smoke as well as various edibles. There is a limit on how mich you can buy per visit but it’s a huge amount. More than you could reasonably use.
The price is pretty much the same as street value, maybe a little less. The quality is identical. It’s the same stuff. Growers sell through both channels or people with cards overbuy and sell some to friends.
and you can get a card as soon as you’re 18, and then hook up your high school budz.
Based on Montana laws and the interviews I did with the local dispensary back when I owned the alternative newspaper in town…
There is no such thing as a “prescription” for medical marijuana in Montana. Even though it requires a doctor evaluation to get the card, they do not recommend varieties, dosages, or ingestion methods.
There are limits to how much you can purchase in any given time period, and limits to how much you can own at any one time.
If you have the card, you can grow your own as well. Limits on number of plants and amount of harvested, ready-to-use product still apply.
Generally speaking, the product available at the dispensary is of known provenance, which means it is at least equal to – and probably better than – the quality of your basic street grass. They’re also very careful about tracking and labeling strains, since some work better for sleeplessness, some for nausea, some for pain relief, and so forth.
I was quite surprised at the variety of product when I got the tour of the dispensary. Not only jars with dozens of strains of buds, but tinctures, oils, lollipops, pasta sauce, brownies, and anything else you could dream up. People with throat problems, for example, don’t want to smoke, so they’ll use an inhaler, tincture, or food product. People who can’t keep food down, on the other hand, will be more likely to smoke it.
Every state is completely different, so this may or may not apply where you live. Heck, it doesn’t even apply here anymore, as the idiots in Montana’s legislature went against the will of the people and gutted our medical marijuana laws. It’s back on the next ballot, though, so we’ll see what happens.