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Canada: Veterans group now seeking fees from marijuana producers for referrals

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 06/04/2015 - 02:56

A former soldier organizing hundreds of fellow PTSD-suffering veterans in Atlantic Canada to take advantage of federally funded marijuana prescriptions says he sees no problem with producers paying groups representing patients in an industry with scant regulation on sales.

Afghanistan veteran Fabian Henry has spoken on behalf of his group, Marijuana for Trauma, to a number of licensed producers about sharing a cut of sales or receiving patient referral fees, which he says will help build a holistic centre for his group’s roughly 500 members.

Revenue-sharing deals between licensed producers and clinics or groups of patients are the types of “kickbacks” decried earlier this week by Tilray, one of Canada’s largest licensed growers that has formed its own breakaway lobby group outlawing such practices.

But Mr. Henry says Tilray entertained such an arrangement. He approached the grower last summer asking for a percentage of gross sales to veterans...

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