I have a friend with a card. That's actually better than having one myself from my perspective. I can get anything I would want to try through her but it's ridiculously expensive.
She also works at a grow op about 35 miles away in the sticks. This grow op is associated with a couple dispensaries and a few doctors in a fairly large town not far from Pittsburgh. They grow and make everything there. It's a little legal weed network they have going on there. I'm sure the state is getting $10 a gram and it's a huge money maker.
The problem is that the 2 biggest medical insurers are UPMC and Highmark and neither one recognizes legal weed as any kind of medical option for anything. If you are on opioids, they check your pee for weed and reject your opioid script if positive.
So you get one or the other here, no hybrid pain relief. That whole thing seems odd to me. We have medical weed, but the insurance companies and their network of doctors won't get involved with it at all.
I am able to pick my friends brain about what goes on in the grow op about lights, solvents, fertilizers, etc., I actually think they're behind the RIU knowledge curve by a few years. And $29.99 for a gram of their "reserve" bud product is a little stiff not to mention $70 carts.
If you can afford to set up a grow room, you can produce equal to superior quality within 2 grows, maybe on the first try if you have a little experience from outdoor plants.
I don't know what it's like in other states but there are two separate medical networks here and the real one doesn't work with the legal weed network. So it isn't what I thought it would be, not even close.
You need a special doctor in the weed network to get a card. Weird.
