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Re:How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Can... by millstone on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:03PM (#11452326)
In California (and in Colorado before legalization) dispensary customers are overwhelmingly recreational users, given recommendation letters from "specialists" who issue them with no medical exam. Their "demonstrated medical needs" would never pass muster with a, say, Kaiser doctor.

The dispensary business won't collapse because they are not competing with pharmacies. Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes.

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Re:How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Can... by theseatoms on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:14PM (#11452359)
> Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes.

Luckily, the price will be so low, even after-tax, that you won't need insurance to fund your cannabis consumption.

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Re:How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Can... by dominotw on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:49AM (#11454602)
>Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes.

Why do doctors face no backlash for prescribing painkillers willy nilly. Americans use legal painkillers more than any other country in the world.

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