I have known that I needed medical cannabis for years, then my anxiety was getting worse and worse as I aged, and i didn’t want to do the traditional doctor visit and pill route.
I was worried about the side effects and I wasn’t totally keen on being medicated.
I realized early on that the right option for me would be medical weed. It took me a long time to finally get our prescription through; Why did it take so long? There are so various steps you need to take in order to become a medical cannabis patient, you need to find a doctor that prescribes medical weed for starters; Then you need to fill out paperwork online, pay a fee and wait 2 weeks for your cannabis card. This does not mean you get unlimited access to medical weed either. You have restrictions on amounts and types of weed. I can only access a particular amount of cannabis flower and oil. I am not permitted edibles, topicals or tinctures for example. The card doesn’t last forever either. I get a full year of being a medical weed patient. Then I need to renew the card. The whole process is starting over. I need to kneel in the waiting room, answer the same questions and pay the fee again… Doing it once was truly difficult on me. I truly begrudge the time, effort and money, then now that I have medical cannabis, it is great. I don’t think if I can make myself do it a ninth time around but.