Canadian Medical Cannabis Businesses Prepare to Diversify as Legalization Looms
As he sits in the sleek, modern waiting room of National Access Cannabis, Derek Ogden can envision what his quiet education clinic in Hintonburg might some day become: A bustling dispensary for medical marijuana.
For the moment, Ogden’s Ottawa operation is a membership- and information-based business. Its services include connecting clients to a network of physicians for a medical assessment, helping them to navigate the paperwork to obtain a medical cannabis card, and going as far as offering cooking-with-cannabis classes.
It just can’t have any weed on site.
“I think there’s a large number of patients that really do want to go in (to a dispensary), speak to somebody and view the various types of products,” Ogden.
Ogden has a unique perspective on the medical marijuana business and its recreational cousin, which sits on the cusp of legalization. As well as being the chief executive of National Access Cannabis, Ogden is a former...
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