Weeding out the medical marijuana opportunists from veterans' medical needs
Holy smokes! Veterans are getting punished for the acts of some shady medical marijuana companies.
Last week, Vice News broke a story about the rising costs of medical marijuana for veterans and it shed light on the reasons for the drastic spike.
The biggest? Some legal cannabis producers are milking the system and actively recruiting veterans in order to max out their orders with only the most expensive cannabis strains — knowing it’s up to the government to foot the bill on veteran prescriptions.
When one savvy veteran caught on to his Health Canada-licensed producer hiding cheaper strains from the veteran menu, they called up the company and asked to see all the options.
Multiple veterans told Vice the licensed producers asked why they enquired about cost and quality of the marijuana since it’s the government who picks up the tab. (Translation: Us, the public.) Many people, including Jonathan Ziad...
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