Blue Flower

  • Prices are very expensive, far beyond standard medications.
    • Reduce or eliminate business rules and regulations that elevate prices for patients.
  • Limits on medical professionals to treat with marijuana.
    • Permit all physicians to make recommendations.
    • Protect nurse's medical licenses, especially home care nurses.
    • Eliminate hospital policies that preclude Medical Marijuana Patients' use.
  • Bedridden homebound patients cannot physically get to a doctor for a recommendation.
    • OPN recommends a change in the law regarding Doctor's in-person only visit.
    • Eliminate policies and/or protect hospitals.
  • Single parents with young children are excluded from bringing a child with them to a dispensary and creates a burden on a parent to obtain childcare or leave them unattended.
    • Permit dependent children to accompany their parent to a dispensary.
    • Allow for call ahead ordering with a drive-thru at dispensaries.
    • Permit a home delivery option.
  • Limited access to a number of dispensaries
    • Expand the number of dispensaries.
  • Restrictions on forms of use
    • Permit use by smoking, nasal sprays inhalers, and suppositories.
  • Driving restrictions effectively make all patients lawbreakers.
    • Conduct a real evaluation of MMJ patients driving abilities.
    • Use anonymized patient driver records in comparison to non-patients.
  • Limited product information such as other cannabinoids and terpenes, strain names are almost meaningless.
    • Expand testing information to include more accurate information on cannabinoids and terpenes.
  • Persistent denial of other conditions by petitions to Medical Board
    • Reconsider prior petitions for example Opioid Use Disorder, Autism
  • Limited patient input to Bureaucratic Boards and Agencies
    • Conduct periodic virtual town halls.
    • Act on patient surveys
  • Limited Physicians awareness of Rules
    • For example, it took months and months for Medical Board to make Physicians aware of Schedule II status impact opioid and other prescription medications.
  • Board of Pharmacy's use of digital technology only creates a “Digital Divide”.
    • Permit use of the Postal system to register patients and obtain their card.