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In Canada you pay 100 bucks, you go in, they ask for your address, name , how much you smoke per day. Then write you a script no questions asked for how much you smoke per day.

This is a moral failing in Canada. I’m all for medical cannabis but prescribing this way is unethical.

Eh it's cannabis it should be legal and readily available just as alcohol is anyway. It's way safer than booze objectively.

If it was strong opiates or something I'd agree with you but it's weed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61657095

We do that here too! Very unethical.

Decriminalisation of personal use of drugs isn't the same as doctors openly prescribing strong opiates.

Decriminalisation is a sensible evidence based policy. I can dig up the stats on Portugal for you if you want. They've had the same policy since 2001. One of the lowest OD rates in the world.

The war on drugs is a failure. The drugs won.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/09/one-third-toronto-cannabis-stores-close-within-next-year/

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Wherever you heard this from is very wrong. We actually have too many dispensaries here. So many that many are closing. Legal cannabis is literally everywhere. Only illegal dispensaries I see now are on native reserves.

While I think lower OD is great, I dont want to be in society with people using those hard drugs. I wouldn’t want my family near anyone using hard drugs.

Did you know that before WWII cocaine and heroin were sold over the counter in every pharmacy? It didn't cause any problems until it was made illegal.

There's a really good book about this called Drug Wars by Neil Woods. He used to be a drug cop. Came out the other end like "all these problems are caused by government policy."

And it is in Canada. That goes with my point. Just get it recreationally if you want it. Save the medical prescriptions to people who need it medically. They deserve the discount. This is why people who use recreational marijuana want it preribed. To save money.

That's a fair point. But then I've also read it's hard to get weed legally over there simply due to a lack of legal dispensaries. Lots of illegal ones still running to fill the gap.

Assuming there's no shortage for patients (it's weed, no reason I can see that there should be) I don't see an ethics issue, more a regulatory one in that it needs to be easier to open legal dispensaries.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/09/one-third-toronto-cannabis-stores-close-within-next-year/

Wherever you heard this is wrong. There are so many legal dispensaries many are closing down because its become to saturated. We have a problem with too many legal dispensaries actually.

Fair enough I don't live in Canada and I heard this a few years ago when I was going there on holiday so I won't profess to be an expert on Canadian issues.

But I stick to the ethical point - unless it's preventing patients accessing it personally I see no moral issues.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/09/one-third-toronto-cannabis-stores-close-within-next-year/

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It was like that at the start of legalization 100%, impossible to find legal weed local. That issue has long since been fixed. Now there is more selection legally vs illegal. The problem with doctors writing scripts for 10 and 20 grams a day to people who don't even use that much, it then in some Cases covered by there medical plan. Then the extra cannabis these patients acquired and had paid for , then turn around and sell it on the street. I think more discretion is needed for cannabis prescriptions. Me I personally do need cannabis medically as it helps my adhd and also my scoliosis which is linked to my 37 degree curve in my spine.

Me personally, I find legal weed expensive. There is professional growers who sell better quality much cheaper

I agree it is. But the discount is for those who need it medically prescribed.

I'm curious what strain do you use for ADHD and how does it compare in effectiveness for treatment?

I got ADHD too. Scripted 60mg Dexedrine/day. It works but gets tiring sometimes being sped up all the time so if weed can be as effective I'm up for trying it.

Curious on chill strains for anxiety to replace or reduce use of benzos too.

50/50 hybrids work well. Cheese strains do well, especially UK cheese. Amnesia Haze does well also I find.

My comment was directed to the adhd question. As far as anxiety , I find indica can be good for anxiety. But I don't find cannabis always helps with my anxiety tbh.

I've had good luck with GSC for anxiety but mostly found it cost prohibitive to use it enough to provide all day anxiety relief like Valium or clonazepam for example.

Not an issue medically.

From how they talked on the phone the attitude seems to be if you have multiple dx's they're like "see it happens to help with anything else too."

Which is the way to go cuz I can give it a try for everything without having to risk losing my current scripts I know work for me (but at the same time I know weed is the better long term solution - I can't imagine daily speed intake is good for me).

Makes sense. The classic UK strains are very sativa heavy.

I also need medically prescribed cannabis. Grateful we live in this country that can assist our needs!

Yeah you're lucky it's a very new thing over here! I was genuinely shocked at how easy it is. Just a couple years ago getting a script was almost impossible despite being technically legal. Now it's super chill.

I legit need it because well I dunno how to describe sensory overload to someone whose never experienced it, best example I can give is imagine the smallest noise in a room drives you absolutely mad, and so do tiny details with how your clothes fit, and lighting, just fuckin everything is magnified x100 and you can't turn it off.

I've taken pretty much every drug legal or otherwise but only cannabis makes this totally disappear. I forget I even have it at all. It's fucking miracle shit.

Happy to get a legal supply so I know I'm getting top quality and actually getting the strain I choose and not paying black market prices.

Plus in the UK we have a retarded law where even if you're not impaired you can get done for driving with weed in your system. As you know it can stay there for an entire month. It's just a law to attack drug users. But there's a medical exception for it. Big load off my mind.