Medical cannabis program still boasts incentives, providers say – Yahoo News

The big incentive with the state’s medical cannabis program, Kirk said, is the fact that patients aren’t charged a sales tax for their purchases.

But patients will also have access to other cannabis products that recreational users won’t, Kirk added.

The Cannabis Control Division imposed a requirement that reserves at least 20% of cannabis production and sales specifically for medical patients.

That includes months of training, exams throughout the year and two weeks of shadowing a nurse before those employees can even begin serving patients.

“But as it starts to even out, I think that we’re going to see more patients as the stigma kind of goes away as cannabis becomes more available.

“I refuse to get sucked into the ‘this is , this is recreational,'” Speegle said.

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