Wikileaf – How Recreational Dispensaries Should Assist Medical Patients

Some dispensaries have partnered with other resources to assist customers with medical questions. For example, some dispensaries in Colorado partner with Leaf411, a free cannabis nurse hotline that provides guidance to customers over the phone.

Katherine Golden RN, CEO, and co-founder of Leaf411 said, “we are not a phone service for just what is considered a “medical” patient because we recognize the challenges for some people with obtaining a medical card.” Some of the reasons Golden referred to included not having a proper qualifying condition, a high-cost to obtaining a card and annually renewing it, restrictions for gun owners, and feeling exposed personally by being in a database.

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via Wikileaf