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For those who are not in the U.S. and/or are not familar with U.S. laws related to cannabis, there are federal laws that are supposed to apply to all 50 states. On the Federal level at present time, cannabis is still considered illegal for any reason including medicinally.
However, to date 39 states have legalized cannabis medicinally and 24 states have legalized it recreationally.
How can this be? How can it be illegal at the federal level but certain states have legalized it? In short, those states have ignored federal law. Could the federal government send a federal force into each of those states and forcibly arrest, shut down, etc cannabis operations or at the very least cut off federal funding to said states? Yes. But that hasn't happened.
How can this be? How can it be illegal at the federal level but certain states have legalized it? In short, those states have ignored federal law. Could the federal government send a federal force into each of those states and forcibly arrest, shut down, etc cannabis operations or at the very least cut off federal funding to said states? Yes. But that hasn't happened.
Australia has some similarities to the US in the way that we are a federation of self governing states. Technically the federal government rules over all but in reality they have to tread carefully and not step on toes to heavily or the states will revolt. We have a very long history of disputes between different states and the feds, Queensland has previously threatened to secede from the federation and Western Australia has almost done it twice.
For those who are not in the U.S. and/or are not familar with U.S. laws related to cannabis, there are federal laws that are supposed to apply to all 50 states. On the Federal level at present time, cannabis is still considered illegal for any reason including medicinally.
However, to date 39 states have legalized cannabis medicinally and 24 states have legalized it recreationally.
How can this be? How can it be illegal at the federal level but certain states have legalized it? In short, those states have ignored federal law. Could the federal government send a federal force into each of those states and forcibly arrest, shut down, etc cannabis operations or at the very least cut off federal funding to said states? Yes. But that hasn't happened.
Yeah, the whole situation looks confusing. When I got my medical card through Leafy DOC I asked the doctor how it’s allowed if it’s still federally illegal. They said the federal government just chooses not to enforce as long as you stay within your state. So everyday use falls under state rules. The only real “don’t” is crossing state lines. That’s where the federal part kicks back in.
I've been buying from chronicguru, it's legal and has no THC but has THCa. Doesn't get you stoned but does something to you. I'd like to get some real weed. I bought weed in NYC 10 years ago when it was advertised on Craigslist. They delivered to your door.
Maybe I can use PTSD to get medical marijuana. Hospitals and Drs gave me PTSD.
I'd like to get some real weed. I bought weed in NYC 10 years ago when it was advertised on Craigslist. They delivered to your door.
Maybe I can use PTSD to get medical marijuana. Hospitals and Drs gave me PTSD.
In another thread you say you're bipolar. If true then canabinoids are possibly the worst drugs you could take. They trigger bipolar and schizophrenic episodes.
In another thread you say you're bipolar. If true then canabinoids are possibly the worst drugs you could take. They trigger bipolar and schizophrenic episodes.
I keep reading about autistic people using THC. Like my alcohol experiment, I figured I would see what the attraction was. So yesterday, I took 10 mg delta 9 THC in a non-alcoholic drink.
After about 45 minutes, I began feeling vertigo. I have Mennier's Disease, so vertigo is not uncommon for me. A few minutes later, my baseline disconnectedness** increased noticeably.
That was it. I never felt giddy, nor relaxed . There didn't seem to be any change in time passage, nor did I become more focused or anything.
There was literally no change in my mood or perception. I made a short drive to the local Walmart to see if I felt any different around people. I didn't feel any different. I was as overstimulated as usual.
I did check my blood pressure when I got back home, since I do have an issue with mildly high blood pressure, typically around 150-165/70-90. After the THC experience, my BP was 178/86.
TL : DR Other than increased BP, a little vertigo, and an increase in disconnectedness, a first-time ever 10 mg dose of THC did literally nothing for me.
**I learned as a pre-teen how to distance myself from pain and the intense emotions I had at the time. By the time I was 14, I had osteoarthritis. I have lived most of my life in near constant pain. I have developed several conditions over the years that have made my body a not-nice place to live. So I live pretty much disconnected from my body to a large extent in order to function.
I keep reading about autistic people using THC. Like my alcohol experiment, I figured I would see what the attraction was. So yesterday, I took 10 mg delta 9 THC in a non-alcoholic drink.
After about 45 minutes, I began feeling vertigo. I have Mennier's Disease, so vertigo is not uncommon for me. A few minutes later, my baseline disconnectedness** increased noticeably.
That was it. I never felt giddy, nor relaxed . There didn't seem to be any change in time passage, nor did I become more focused or anything.
There was literally no change in my mood or perception. I made a short drive to the local Walmart to see if I felt any different around people. I didn't feel any different. I was as overstimulated as usual.
I did check my blood pressure when I got back home, since I do have an issue with mildly high blood pressure, typically around 150-165/70-90. After the THC experience, my BP was 178/86.
TL : DR Other than increased BP, a little vertigo, and an increase in disconnectedness, a first-time ever 10 mg dose of THC did literally nothing for me.
**I learned as a pre-teen how to distance myself from pain and the intense emotions I had at the time. By the time I was 14, I had osteoarthritis. I have lived most of my life in near constant pain. I have developed several conditions over the years that have made my body a not-nice place to live. So I live pretty much disconnected from my body to a large extent in order to function.
I tried medical marijuana and all it did was give me brain fog. Since brain fog is one of the symptoms I suffer from and would prefer not to have, this did not improve the quality of life for me.
I tried medical marijuana and all it did was give me brain fog. Since brain fog is one of the symptoms I suffer from and would prefer not to have, this did not improve the quality of life for me.
I think it was this brain fog effect that was helpful to me. It slowed me down enough that I could live in the moment instead of being scattered across past present and future.
The same as with alcohol I never formed an addiction, and every few years when my tolerance for it gets too high I'll take a break from it for a few months so that it has a stronger effect on me again. I've been doing that for more than 40 years now.
I think it was this brain fog effect that was helpful to me. It slowed me down enough that I could live in the moment instead of being scattered across past present and future.
The same as with alcohol I never formed an addiction, and every few years when my tolerance for it gets too high I'll take a break from it for a few months so that it has a stronger effect on me again. I've been doing that for more than 40 years now.
I had a medical cannabis prescription before it was legalized for everyone for recreational use in Canada. Was for Autism-related "challenging behaviour" and PTSD before finally diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis.
Doctor initially said only use CBD and only swallowed or sublingual oils (because of asthma) -- CBD made me worse: became agitated, unfocused, irritable and angry, my anxiety warped into borderline paranoia, if in pathological flashbacks would just get stuck there even worse.... it was awful.
THC rich oils were actually helpful, calmed me right down -- doctor and psychologist commented on it repeatedly, ie "You are so calm today!"
I didn't get brain fog or anything unless I used strains with balanced CBD or very high myrcene-content (myrcene is a terpene and found in almost all cannabis strains, it is one of the most common terpenes if not the most common -- terpenes have their own physiological and neuropsychological effects and can synergistically change the effects of CBD and THC) -- strains with high myrcene content alone made me confused and spacey, and uneasy/unsettled (add CBD and it was a nightmare of worsening everything, but with only very high myrcene content:_)....it was sometimes a bit like the anxiety remained physiologically mostly unchanged, but my conscious mind got disconnected from my body in a disturbing way and sort of shut down.
So, trial and error plus a lot of research (think academic studies associated with major universities or hospitals, or articles written by licensed physicians who might or might not be heavily biased at minimum -- not just the abundant articles written by cannabis dispensaries, licensed producers, or random people unless they cited reputable acadmic works...although even then, the most striking conclusion is how much uncertainty there is about most proposed effects of various terpenes and how dependent they may be upon the presence or absence of other compounds and possibly biological state) and guidance from the cannabis clinic nurse practitioner guided me towards learning that I do best with strains that are:
- THC rich with little or no CBD
- pinene-rich (this is common for people with ADHD, it seems to help some with focus and self-control; may be a weak anti-convulsant, seems to be a bronchodilator...
...Pinene-rich strains are also recommended for anyone who wants to take cannabis for asthma, or while having asthma and taking cannabis to help with something else; Especially if they are opting for vaping as I eventually did.
[For myself: I opted for vaping primarily because consistent and rapid onset of effect (orally ingested oils/sublingual had inconsistent effect and very slow onset) is best to quickly interrupt truly pathological and pointless looping flashbacks and the extreme distress they involve; Also because vaping allows for take-as-needed rather than being medicated 24/7, which reduces both cost and tachyphylaxis; And because I need to take a 4+ times higher dose of oil compared to vaporized cannabis [which is weird -- most people have the opposite experience except when it comes to onset of effect and potentially inconsistent absorptions from the GI tract])
Smoking is ALWAYS discouraged unequivocally for medical (and recreational but they don't usually get direct advice from anyone, just make their own choices) cannabis users in Canada, but especially emphasized for those with lung disease; Vaping is also dicouraged similarly, but the potential irritation and damage to lung tissue is not at all as severe as with smoking -- that is ONLY, however, if you are using a vaporizer that heats up whole-plant cannabis and sticking to lower temperature settings.
Vape cartridges are an entirely different story - not only does the solution containing THC and/or CBD usually contain additives like flavorings or preservatives, and/or a carrier fluid like PEG that pure THC or CBD is added to; But even pure THC and/or CBD oil in vape cartridges has been shown (in Canadian studies about Canadian products -- perhaps there are different regulations in different countries, meaning this doesn't happen -- or is even worse -- I don't know) to more often than not contain heavy metal contaminants that leech into the oil from the heating coils...
Theoretically the same could happen with a "dry herb" vaporizer, but there is less direct contact between the dried cannabis and vapor that comes off it and the metal "oven" and "chimney" (oven is where the dried cannabis goes and it heated up; chimney is the tube the vapor travels through from the oven to the mouthpiece where you inhale it) than between the heating coils in a vape cartridge and liquid to be vaporized -- Additionally, with many dry herb vaporizers you can research what materials will come into contact with the cannabis and vapor, and opt for a device that uses mostly or entirely food-safe or medical grade stainless steel for those parts)...
Again: Any inhalation of cannabis is not generally recommened, especially for asthmatics, but occasionally cannabis-prescribing doctors (or those doctors simply informed of a patient's use, now that it is legal -- and actually far cheaper to purchase from the recreational market, which sickens me because the safety standards are exactly the same and it is the exact same product just packaged and marketed differently;Meaning medical cannabis users are being exploited) will simply respect a patient's choice and experience and make recommendations to reduce harm....
So when people want to take cannabis for asthma, usually because of having atrocious side effects from standard bronchodilators like salbutamol, or experiencing profound and rapid tachyphylaxis (body adapts very fast, medicine stops working) while not so much experiencing those thing from THC (or as I did: despite having asthma not to treat asthma -- for me because nothing else helps PTSD pathology symptoms and cannabis has similar effect as my ADHD meds in terms of helping self-regulation and focus -- not because I have ever experienced asthma-treatment effects from it) pinene-rich strains are often recommended because both alpha and beta pinene have anti-inflammatory effect and seem to specifically have mild bronchodilator effect ...
btw THC also has been known for 200 years to have bronchodilator effect (CBD is an anti-inflammatory but not a bronchodilator: THC and CBD act via different biochemical pathways in what is known as the "endo-cannabinoid" system in the human body) -- in the 1800s cannabis was in official pharmacopieas as treatment for asthma likely because of this -- of course today, we know smoking anything is unequivocally bad for even healthy lungs and especially lungs afflicted with asthma or any other respiratory disease)
- contain as other primary terpenes, the following (in order of how useful they seem to be for me for both psychological and pain-relieving effects):
- caryophyllene (any isomeric form - caryophyllene is found in virtually all cannabis, to varying degrees and different ratios of isomeric forms, just like myrcene -- known primarily for anti-inflammatory effect, possibly anxiolytic - also found in black pepper)
- limonene (regarded as useful for anxiety in particular, common to citrus)
- cedrene (this one is a bit rare -- also found in cedar trees)
- ocimene (also rare-ish, not as much so as cedrene)
- humulene
-linalool (also regarded as anxiolytic - abundant in lavender)
- terpinolene
Once I knew which strains were helpful vs harmful or middling (middling = maybe helpful for one thing but with bad side effects), the only drawback to taking cannabis for medicinal purposes was the unaffordability of it. I would use it consistently if I could, and would have a better quality of life as a result -- as it is I don't take it often simply because it's not covered by insurance even with a prescription under the medical use program and very expensive. (It is covered by the federal government to a maximum amount per gram, if you're a veteran, not otherwise) So I only use it during extreme crisis and even then only sometimes - like when I'm unable to eat anyways and on the brink of unassisted suicide ...so I can use money that isn't being spent on food to try to at least minimize extreme and truly paralyzing distress and get me back to a more grounded and clear-thinking state, to see me through an especially extreme crisis.
In my case I don't think it's because THC gives me brain fog and brain fog is helpful, it may just be just one more of the many medicines I have paradoxically opposite or idiosyncratic responses to -- vast majority of those being ones that are prescribed to me for typical label-use indications. (Usually not prescribed for very long because it usually means they do the opposite of what they are supposed to do, or because the bizarre paradoxical/ idiosyncratic effects as side effects are intolerable. Example: most antihistamines keep me awake and counteract sedative effect of ADHD meds (paradoxical effect is useful for ADHD meds)....including the ones I need to help me keep breathing.)
- contain as other primary terpenes, the following (in order of how useful they seem to be for me for both psychological and pain-relieving effects):
- caryophyllene (any isomeric form - caryophyllene is found in virtually all cannabis, to varying degrees and different ratios of isomeric forms, just like myrcene -- known primarily for anti-inflammatory effect, possibly anxiolytic - also found in black pepper)
- limonene (regarded as useful for anxiety in particular, common to citrus)
- cedrene (this one is a bit rare -- also found in cedar trees)
- ocimene (also rare-ish, not as much so as cedrene)
- humulene
-linalool (also regarded as anxiolytic - abundant in lavender)
Thanks for the info on terps. I've been casually following that side of the research but had never gotten into as deeply as you obviously have. I've just been at the "shows promise but much more research needed" stage in what I'd read and that was some time ago.
I currently enjoy a bit of thc in the evenings but never enough now to get me proper stoned. Like in my 20's I'd smoke a 0.5gram joint in one sitting where as now the same will last me 4-5 sittings. I just take a couple puffs, enough to get the edge of. I try not to overindulge as I do have issues with alcohol and I don't want to just substitute one addiction for another.
On the medical side I'm happy to live in Canada where it's legal recreationally and medically for a good many years. Recreational since 2018, medical has been around even longer. My mother in fact for a time had a medical license that included assigning someone to be her designated grower, me. You find out quickly why the slang for it is weed, as they grow super quick just like well, weeds. My 5 were all outdoor over the course of a summer and all ended up being like 9-10 feet tall. Honestly it was just a pain in the butt to harvest and prep it all for storage. I'll just buy my mother her pot from now on. It's much more conveinent. (Sidebar it is so inconvenient that no matter how hard I try I can never spell convenient correctly the first time around. My brain will not let me).
Thanks for the info on terps. I've been casually following that side of the research but had never gotten into as deeply as you obviously have. I've just been at the "shows promise but much more research needed" stage in what I'd read and that was some time ago.
You may know just as much as I do, given the uncertainty that still exists -- and the fact its been some years since I did any deep dive research, too.
The uncertainty: I suspect it's because of the inherent complexity of the biochemistry of these things and partly because of the ongoing challenges of researching non-traditional compounds as medicines -- particularly in the context of cannabis, which is so heavily politicized for both recreational and medicinal use, still illegal in so much of the world and highly regulated in places where it's legalized ... creating a lot of complication in terms of obstacles to research (obtaining funding and ethical approval and/or exemptions from prohibition laws) and the issue of competing interests (profit vs human welfare and objective truth).
I currently enjoy a bit of thc in the evenings but never enough now to get me proper stoned. Like in my 20's I'd smoke a 0.5gram joint in one sitting where as now the same will last me 4-5 sittings. I just take a couple puffs, enough to get the edge of. I try not to overindulge as I do have issues with alcohol and I don't want to just substitute one addiction for another.
My 5 were all outdoor over the course of a summer and all ended up being like 9-10 feet tall. Honestly it was just a pain in the butt to harvest and prep it all for storage. I'll just buy my mother her pot from now on. It's much more conveinent.
I imagine that mold and maintaining optimal humidity are concerns during the curing stage? (Btw did you know any adult Canadian can now grow up to four plants for recreational personal use, as long as certain regulatory laws are followed -- e.g. to keep their plants out of public view and the dried cannabis secured, possession limits as far as harvest, no selling it obviously, and following any local laws that enforce prohibition and take precedence over federal laws?)
I might have some words like that...I know how to spell them but often mispell them by reversing things or my brain wants the spelling to have a consistent visual pattern when it doesn't...
"Vinyl" is one of them -- i often spell it "vynil" and don't notice when I do.
"Occasional" is another - I type it so there are two "s"s and one "c". Or double both the "s" and the "c", even though I know that's wrong.
I don't really pay much attention to things like spelling or grammar in other people's writing; Content matters much more than formatting. Also I would be a hypocrite if I cared about those things/was critical about them, given the sea of unending typos (including not just spelling errors but completely missing words, nonsensically added or doubled words) and nightmarish grammar that my writing usually has. (Best paper I ever wrote in university, would have gotten 100% - marker explicitly told me so in the notes she gave me --but for all the typos .... and I had tried so, so hard to find and fix them all, spent days on final editing for small errors.)
A friend of mine who has a medical marijuana prescription for chronic depression told me that he smokes it because he doesn't have a gallbladder which is needed to process THC that is ingested. I don't know if that is true. He says sativa strains are the best for him, and he characterizes marijuana as either "sleep on the couch" types or "obsessively clean the house" types.
I imagine that mold and maintaining optimal humidity are concerns during the curing stage? (Btw did you know any adult Canadian can now grow up to four plants for recreational personal use, as long as certain regulatory laws are followed -- e.g. to keep their plants out of public view and the dried cannabis secured, possession limits as far as harvest, no selling it obviously, and following any local laws that enforce prohibition and take precedence over federal laws?)
Mold is a big issue for sure and what I've encountered. basically while growing it's check them every couple days any signs of mold, spidermite, anything else nefarious gets immediately cut and disposed of in the burn pile. Likewise once the harvest begins as stalks are hang drying, after careful trimming of all excess leaves, if there is even a hint of mold the entire stalk/branch (75-100cm chunks) gets disposed of immediately. The first time you grow and harvest it feels like you are throwing away a ton, until you get to the end of the harvest and realize that a good quality plant produces a ton. 4 plants would typically take me 2-3 weeks of trimming/hanging for 2-3 hours per day. It's been 4 years now since the last crop I grew, my mother is still enjoying that harvest. As stored in mason jars in a dark root cellar the stuff pretty much keeps forever.
The big thing I'll say about my success at growing is that it comes down to high quality feminized seeds. Feminized seeds guarantee that all of your plants that do sprout will be bud bearing females, and not plant ruining males. A single male plant can ruin plants within a 5 km radius. Because once the female plants go to seed, you're not getting good bud anymore.
I know all about the recreational growing laws here in Canada now too, but my growing was always for my Mother and never my own use. And honestly while I used the 0.5g example for my own consumption I've actually been using a distillate vaporizer for the sake of convenience as I honestly prefer not to smoke flower indoors if I can help it. Winters are cold, so the vape indoors is nice.
@the_tortoise , thanks for the information on turpenes, it explains a few things.
The medical weed that I get, 19% thc, comes from Canada and tastes like crap. The locally grown weed that I can get on the street smells and tastes much sweeter and fruitier and doesn't rip my throat apart like the Canadian stuff does. It also gives a bigger and more lasting hit.
It's the same here with price, the officially medically dispensed weed is more than twice the street price, except for me, as a pensioner I get a big discount.
I also know from personal experience that I live in a prime location for growing weed, I don't understand why Australia has to import it at all.
This is how one of my cousins found out he was allergic to penicillin. He was hospitalised twice before he figured it out. And to make matters worse, his mother knew he had that allergy but had never bothered to tell him.
@the_tortoise , thanks for the information on turpenes, it explains a few things.
The medical weed that I get, 19% thc, comes from Canada and tastes like crap. The locally grown weed that I can get on the street smells and tastes much sweeter and fruitier and doesn't rip my throat apart like the Canadian stuff does. It also gives a bigger and more lasting hit.
I shall have a conversation with the lads and tell them to start producing better tasting stuff for export. Half joking, we have a local growing facility that produces for medical export abroad. Possible some of your stuff is coming from a few km's away from where I currently sit.
Tell them to come and visit Adelaide, I'll take them on a tour of different regions and show them where they're going wrong.
Adelaide was always Australia's weed capital. Not just because of climate and soil but also because of the attitudes of the local population and the police. Although laws here are much the same as the rest of the country we were the first state to decriminilise home growing, up to 10 plants back in the early 80s. That has since been reduced to 5.
Note that I said decriminilise, not legalise. This saved our court system massive amounts of money over the years simply by not having so many petty cases to deal with. If the cops see your plants they rip them out and hand you an on the spot fine like a speeding fine, 30 days to pay.
But cops here are very unlikely to do that unless you're causing some sort of trouble in your neighbourhood, it's a law they can enforce but rarely do. The same as smoking weed in public, the cops will likely just ignore you unless you're standing somewhere near families with children in which case they'll ask you to show a little bit of decorum and move downwind from them.
1. Good quality (last many many years; various overheating, over-charging, and short-circuit protections; sturdy; safe materials) dry herb vaporizers are very expensive ($100++)...
Whereas a battery that you can use 510 threaded cartridges with can cost as little as $10. And the disposable all-in-one devices (often rechargeable) are not a lot more expensive than the 510 cartridges.
2. While dry-herb vaporizers produce no smoke -- and a vapor that is much more mild smelling than the traditional overpowering burnt skunky cannabis aroma, it's still quite strong-smelling.
The cartridges, even if they are pure cannabis oil vs THC or CBD distillate dissolved into a carrier liquid, leave very very little lingering skunky smell.
The medical weed that I get, 19% thc, comes from Canada and tastes like crap. The locally grown weed that I can get on the street smells and tastes much sweeter and fruitier and doesn't rip my throat apart like the Canadian stuff does. It also gives a bigger and more lasting hit.
I'd be curious to know who the producer is -- there are many licensed commercial producers here and there is a lot of variation in quality. Some produce horrible quality cannabis or aren't doing good enough quality control (have even been recalls due to mold). I stick to only a few companies that publish information about their growing methods, and for medical sales will offer detailed breakdown of all testing results for terpenes, and tests done for bacteria, mold, and various controlled or banned contaminants.
(That said, about number of licensed producers: a lot of them have been dissolved into big corporate conglomerates and I'm not 100% clear on whether/in which instances that means production and quality are changed vs it all staying the same except the parent company now rakes in all profits)
It's the same here with price, the officially medically dispensed weed is more than twice the street price, except for me, as a pensioner I get a big discount
I don't know the street price here (if you mean illicit or grey-area dispensary), but the markup between legal recreational and legal medicinal in Canada is similar -- buying the exact same product via the medical pathway from the exact same company (sometimes not even relabelled; literally exactly the same in every respect) vs the recreational pathway: medical order price tag is double or more the recreational store price.
I got a discount, too, from medical sellers, just because I'm poor, but even with that discount the recreational market was more affordable -- also more convenient; In Canada all medical cannabis must be ordered online or by phone, and delivered by post or courier -- there is no way to just go to a dispensary or even an actual physical location for the one pharmacy chain that acts as a centralized medical distributor for many licensed producers, plus you can only be purchasing from one licensed producer at any given time -- meaning if they are out of stock of the only strains or product formulations (oil, capsule, topical, etc) you can use, too bad for you unless someone has informed you (nobody did this for me until it became clear to them I thought I could only pick one or the other - medical stream or recreational) you can still buy cannabis from the recreational market.
And the thing about recreational vs medicinal -- even if you have a medical cannabis prescription and are signed up with a licensed producer, if you have a cannabis product purchased from a recreational store (doesn't matter if it is literally exactly the same product as what you would purchase from your licensed producer) then it's not exempt to any local prohibition or restriction on cannabis consumption the way direct-from-LP-product is, (There are municipalities thst ban sso much as swallowing a CBD or THC oil containing gel capsule with some water if you're out in public; rentals can ban consumption or possession of CBD and THC containing products on premises only if they have been purchased from a recreational store, but purchased direct from LP the exact same thing is exempt -- and again, it doesn't matter if you are a prescription holder registered with the medical cannabis program and your LP just happened to be out of what you take on their medical order site...it's so stupid)
So it can actually be quite inconvenient and challenging just to refill your medical cannabis prescription.
Also appalling is that they still charge the massive cannabis tax on medicinal products purchased directly from the licensed producer as a medical cannavis patient...seriously unethical, imo.
I have a dry herb vape but I don't use it very often any more. I found that when using the vape my tolerance went up very quickly and I found myself going through weed at a much faster rate.
Sounds similar to how things work here. If you're a pensioner or unemployed medicines are half price.
For my Canadian weed I pay Au$105 for a 15 gram jar - just over half an ounce.
In Adelaide the street price for locally grown weed is Au$200/ounce.
So I'm paying about the same as the street price but I also have to keep going back to the doctor for repeat prescriptions and that adds another small fee to the price as well.
