When Will Your Local Pharmacy Carry Cannabis?
Today cannabis can be purchased at retail stores and medical dispensaries, but not pharmacies.
With California voting on Prop 64 (the Adult Use of Marijuana Act) next week, it sometimes seems that full-blown legalization has eclipsed the conversation around medicinal cannabis. But even if California—and eventually the entire country—were to legalize cannabis for recreational use, it’s all but guaranteed that cannabis would still play a major role in the healthcare industry.
Questions remain, however, around how regular consumers would purchase medicinal cannabis in the future. Namely, will it be a prescription drug or simply an over-the-counter product like a bottle of supplements?
In addition to the four states that have legalized cannabis for both medicinal and recreational use (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington), 21 states have legalized it for strictly medicinal use, according to Ackrell Capital. Patients who want to purchase medicinal cannabis typically have to have a “qualifying condition” and...
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