Medical Marijuana Prescriptions Online: New Site Uses Video Consulting

HelloMD is a pioneering digital healthcare platform that might set a precedent for the medical cannabis industry.

In California, where brick and mortar cannabis dispensaries have been permitted to sell pot since 1996, its assumed ubiquity has sewn a fabulist notion that the state is an idyllic playground for weed smokers.

True, the golden state has been a gargantuan producer of cannabis for a long time, but medical dispensaries don’t necessarily clutter its landscape. There are between 500-1,000 dispensaries operating within California, generating a reported $870 million to $2 billion in economic activity a year — which is a windfall, especially for an industry that’s been shrouded in stigma.

Now, online startups like HelloMD want to be the ZocDoc for weed, connecting people who might be helped by medical marijuana with doctors who can prescribe it. In the advertising language of the company: ”Join and get a Doctor recommendation...

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