Federal drug officials are warning Georgia to shelve its plans to be the first state to allow pharmacies to dispense medical marijuana products.
News outlets report that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Nov. 27 warned pharmacies that dispensing medical marijuana violates federal law.
Fine, who would want Walgreens, Walmart and CVS to be where you get your weed? I would rather buy it at independent stores both for atmosphere and that large pharmacies are shitty companies in every way possible.
I’d much much much rather pick my shit up at Wegmans while shopping for the rest of my shit. I couldn’t give a fuck about atmosphere. I’m not there to have out and smoke out my dealer anymore.
If weed is one of your prescriptions and for one of many reasons it’s hard to be out in public, being able to get it all in one place would be great.
It would be cool if it was an option, but not the only option. A lot of states have home delivery now too.
Yeah I’m in Australia and I do it all online, but I would like the option of being able to just go do a pharmacy, I’m stuck on the whim of Australia Post and I’d depends on how the feel on if you’ll get your stuff on time or half a week late.
I can already see it (again): an employee of Walgreens that is not a pharmacy employee gets tasked to help the pharmacy during a busy period. They are put at the counter to grab and distribute customers’ ready prescriptions. A customer comes up to the counter to pick up their prescription of marijuana, the employee sees the prescribed drug, and promptly refuses to give the customer their prescription. It’s already happened in southern states with birth control, it feel confident it would happen in this scenario, too.
There are independent pharmacies. Compounding pharmacies are even in many small towns. They tailor medications specifically to your needs. They would be perfect places for patients using cannabis medicinally to get pre-set dosages.
There are some, sure. The largest 7 pharmacies have over 70% of the market though.
I live in Oregon in a city of 250k and literally every single independent pharmacy has been driven out of business because they can’t compete against Walgreens and RightAid on drug pricing. These two companies are the only option outside of Walmart and Costco, and have terrible hours and reliability. Walgreens is only open M-F 8-5 and numerous times recently have been inexplicably closed in the middle of the day when I’ve gone to pick up prescriptions for my parents.
On the other hand, we have probably 100 different dispensaries in town all owned by different people. Prices are dirt cheap and availability is great. One is open 7 days a week from 7am to 10pm. Having this shit be handled by some corporate pharmacy would be a death sentence for the entire industry.
I see you’ve never taken prescription drugs for an extended period of time.
Not sure why you’d think that. I have type 1 diabetes, so without prescription drugs I would be dead in 3-4 days.
So you’d rather make a special trip to a dispensary to enjoy the atmosphere than just pick up cannabis products with your insulin?
Yes, I think I already described why. For one, the pharmacies where I live are understaffed and complete crap… I have to pick up prescriptions for my parents and often am waiting at Walgereens in line for 45 minutes.
Then, unless they had a large selection like how Walgreens has full liquor stores, the experience and pricing would be far inferior to shopping at a regular weed store. It’s not ‘the atmosphere’, and I don’t like the atmosphere of 60% of dispensaries (though I mean seriously, it’s better than CVS?) it’s the selection, service and so on. Would Walgreens let you look at and smell a dozen different varieties of weed? Open each jar of concentrate and let you smell and look at it before purchase? Have loyalty clubs with discounts? Have a menu with 50 different things on it? Probably not.
So I think it should be an option but not the only way to do it. And of course I recognize that Georgia doesn’t have a ‘real’ medical or rec cannabis program. I don’t think some of the people giving opinions here have ever lived in a state that does. I have lived in 3 different states with good programs for 15 years.