The big incentive with the state’s medical cannabis program, Kirk said, is the fact that patients aren’t charged a sales tax for their purchases.
But patients will also have access to other cannabis products that recreational users won’t, Kirk added.
The Cannabis Control Division imposed a requirement that reserves at least 20% of cannabis production and sales specifically for medical patients.
That includes months of training, exams throughout the year and two weeks of shadowing a nurse before those employees can even begin serving patients.
“But as it starts to even out, I think that we’re going to see more patients as the stigma kind of goes away as cannabis becomes more available.
“I refuse to get sucked into the ‘this is , this is recreational,'” Speegle said.
I am a 40-year-old athletic trainer who has had a mild ache in my left hip for about a month.
Nobody knows for sure how much havoc it will cause, but BA.2 has already led to a surge of cases in Europe and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the United States and around the world.