In this interview, Alexander Smith travels to Toronto, to learn about Canada’s emerging medical marijuana industry and visit our …
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To those of you that are commenting on "Big Business" being bad for medical marijuana… I would like to offer my perspective and very much welcome intelligent feedback.
I have spent the last 20 years hoping, debating for and supporting the right to use marijuana as a medicine. And I have also watched how the lack of data and studies on patients have been used as an excuse for keeping it illegal or not accepted as "not enough" studies are made. (Thousands of years of empirical evidence clearly doesn't count for much…) Finally, finally patients are increasingly being allowed and supported in using cannabis, even though there is a long way to go until everyone who needs it has access.
With the kind of data and physician support Canabo are be able to provide, all that will change. And it will also change an industry that is still in it's infancy and deperately need support, knowledge and co-operation to succeed in bringing BETTER medicines to MORE people who really need them. Many of whom today are being limited to what their current doctor feel comfortable with prescribing to them, which, often is…NOT marijuana, due to lack of understanding in the traditional medical space of this powerful plant. Again, Canabo can help to change all of that I believe.
Here is finally a company that wants to work together with doctors in transitioning patients to using marijuana instead of many times harmful chemical drugs, with various side effects and often of low efficacy, if any at all… This offers hope for many who before had none at all, because they had no way of accessing cannabis, if they even knew it might be worth trying.
The explosive growth in access to medical marijuana would not be possible if it wasn't for people willing to take a chance and start a business in a sector fraught with unknown pitfalls and policical land mines, and for the people who support them-financially or otherwise. We are talking about business, yes. That is how the worls is set up for now-capitalistic. Not sure I think that is an ideal model (that is for another discussion though, lol), but that is the relity we are operating in right now, so no point being in denial. 🙂
I do agree that many of the companies active in the cannabis sector need to adjust their methods on many levels and in some instances educated in best growing practices etc. Obviously (to me anyway) medicine should not be grown with poisons f.ex.
However, this video wasn't about those companies, they were only mentioned as context.
We NEED the data this company can provide for cannabis use as a medicine to be better understood and applied. We NEED the compounding expertise of companies like Canabo to help refine and evolve the care and treatments being used today. Our current medical system need them, our loved ones need them…
Quite frankly, Canabo is a company I would happily have DONATED to in order to support their very important work. Now I have a chance to invest and possibly make a bit of money supporting a cause I believe in from the bottom of my heart… Well, I really can't see how that is in any way a negative.
And should big business get involved…well I welcome them if they do, because I believe it's better to profit from making the world a better place than from blowing it up.
Will wrap up my rant for now, lol! Just have a few questions to previous commenters, here goes
@alindartist: Who are poisining herb? And of course businesses has to make money. Do you think its any different at the local dealer or dispensery? If they didn't, very few would bother with providing it.
@mary jo henshaw: I agree and disagree somewhat 🙂 This is going INTO the field previously reserved only for chemical drugs, meaning more people are switching to a better alternative. Using their infrastructure to treat more patients sounds good to me. You as a medical user yourself, wouldn't you agree more people should have access to this medicine? I really agree about chemicals NEVER being used on medicine (or anything else for that matter) and this is why we have to demand higher standards and control of products. This video wasn't about a grower though, its about medical cannabis clinics. Watch it again, I think with the viewpoint your presenting you might actually see the benefits they are providing.
@Susan Fisher: If you are not in an area yet providing this kind of service, isn't that all the more reason to want to see them succeed, so they might expand or inspire someone in your local area? And it seems to me that "big business and big doctor (brother) teaming up together" might not be all bad, if the outcome it produces is more and better access to cannabis for patients. The data being collected, I believe is meant precisely to be used as a base for more scientific studies, as everyone are so enthusiastic about asking for. You are very right in there being doctors actually wanting to prescribe marijuana, but many of them don't, due to lack of experience, knowledge and support. This really needs to change on a big scale, and it looks like this company is doing a good job of participating in actually DOING just that.
Would also love to hear opinions on how cannabis can make its way to more patients as fast as possible without it being a business model. I have volunteered for many years and know very well from personal experience that there is a very unfortunate limit on how much can be done without financial compensation, as long as we live in a world where "money makes it all go around"
I've had my licence to use Medical Marijuana for about five years now and abhor the growth of this big business. This is going the way of the Pharmaceuticals taking over our medicine. Canopy may be the largest in Canada but too much of their products are sprayed with chemicals, not nearly enough bud tenders to keep it safe and clean. Personally won't use anything from Canopy in Smiths Falls for these very reasons. I get sick each time I've used their products. Research if you are truly interested in investing. I do hope you will give some thought to the patients using this medicine and not just the capital you will be earning.
To those of you that are commenting on "Big Business" being bad for medical marijuana… I would like to offer my perspective and very much welcome intelligent feedback.
I have spent the last 20 years hoping, debating for and supporting the right to use marijuana as a medicine. And I have also watched how the lack of data and studies on patients have been used as an excuse for keeping it illegal or not accepted as "not enough" studies are made. (Thousands of years of empirical evidence clearly doesn't count for much…) Finally, finally patients are increasingly being allowed and supported in using cannabis, even though there is a long way to go until everyone who needs it has access.
With the kind of data and physician support Canabo are be able to provide, all that will change. And it will also change an industry that is still in it's infancy and deperately need support, knowledge and co-operation to succeed in bringing BETTER medicines to MORE people who really need them. Many of whom today are being limited to what their current doctor feel comfortable with prescribing to them, which, often is…NOT marijuana, due to lack of understanding in the traditional medical space of this powerful plant. Again, Canabo can help to change all of that I believe.
Here is finally a company that wants to work together with doctors in transitioning patients to using marijuana instead of many times harmful chemical drugs, with various side effects and often of low efficacy, if any at all… This offers hope for many who before had none at all, because they had no way of accessing cannabis, if they even knew it might be worth trying.
The explosive growth in access to medical marijuana would not be possible if it wasn't for people willing to take a chance and start a business in a sector fraught with unknown pitfalls and policical land mines, and for the people who support them-financially or otherwise. We are talking about business, yes. That is how the worls is set up for now-capitalistic. Not sure I think that is an ideal model (that is for another discussion though, lol), but that is the relity we are operating in right now, so no point being in denial. 🙂
I do agree that many of the companies active in the cannabis sector need to adjust their methods on many levels and in some instances educated in best growing practices etc.
Obviously (to me anyway) medicine should not be grown with poisons f.ex.
However, this video wasn't about those companies, they were only mentioned as context.
We NEED the data this company can provide for cannabis use as a medicine to be better understood and applied.
We NEED the compounding expertise of companies like Canabo to help refine and evolve the care and treatments being used today. Our current medical system need them, our loved ones need them…
Quite frankly, Canabo is a company I would happily have DONATED to in order to support their very important work. Now I have a chance to invest and possibly make a bit of money supporting a cause I believe in from the bottom of my heart… Well, I really can't see how that is in any way a negative.
And should big business get involved…well I welcome them if they do, because I believe it's better to profit from making the world a better place than from blowing it up.
Will wrap up my rant for now, lol!
Just have a few questions to previous commenters, here goes
@alindartist: Who are poisining herb? And of course businesses has to make money. Do you think its any different at the local dealer or dispensery? If they didn't, very few would bother with providing it.
@mary jo henshaw: I agree and disagree somewhat 🙂 This is going INTO the field previously reserved only for chemical drugs, meaning more people are switching to a better alternative. Using their infrastructure to treat more patients sounds good to me. You as a medical user yourself, wouldn't you agree more people should have access to this medicine? I really agree about chemicals NEVER being used on medicine (or anything else for that matter) and this is why we have to demand higher standards and control of products. This video wasn't about a grower though, its about medical cannabis clinics. Watch it again, I think with the viewpoint your presenting you might actually see the benefits they are providing.
@Susan Fisher: If you are not in an area yet providing this kind of service, isn't that all the more reason to want to see them succeed, so they might expand or inspire someone in your local area? And it seems to me that "big business and big doctor (brother) teaming up together" might not be all bad, if the outcome it produces is more and better access to cannabis for patients. The data being collected, I believe is meant precisely to be used as a base for more scientific studies, as everyone are so enthusiastic about asking for.
You are very right in there being doctors actually wanting to prescribe marijuana, but many of them don't, due to lack of experience, knowledge and support. This really needs to change on a big scale, and it looks like this company is doing a good job of participating in actually DOING just that.
Would also love to hear opinions on how cannabis can make its way to more patients as fast as possible without it being a business model. I have volunteered for many years and know very well from personal experience that there is a very unfortunate limit on how much can be done without financial compensation, as long as we live in a world where "money makes it all go around"
you are POISONNING Herb . smh.
Big Business >> all about the $$$ .. smh
I've had my licence to use Medical Marijuana for about five years now and abhor the growth of this big business. This is going the way of the Pharmaceuticals taking over our medicine. Canopy may be the largest in Canada but too much of their products are sprayed with chemicals, not nearly enough bud tenders to keep it safe and clean. Personally won't use anything from Canopy in Smiths Falls for these very reasons. I get sick each time I've used their products. Research if you are truly interested in investing. I do hope you will give some thought to the patients using this medicine and not just the capital you will be earning.
Might be worth investing in.