My best friend Alex got a medical marijuana card from the state.
He is super stoked about it. Now he has access to any of the local dispensaries. All it cost him was $800, which is what the government charges for the card. That’s $800 per year, not a one-time fee. Alex encouraged me to get a card of my own, and I told him “you show me the magical money tree where I can get $800 and I’ll get the card.” Weed is expensive enough to smoke habitually, so paying that much extra money was completely out of the question. For $800 I could buy four ounces of cannabis from Jimbo, the high school kid that sells weed from the back of his station wagon. Four ounces of cannabis is enough to keep me stoned for months on end! If I were to do it the legal way, I wouldn’t have enough cash left over to buy cannabis, because I would have paid it all to the government. If I ever start making more money, and have $800 to spare I would definitely get my cannabis Rx card, just so I could start trying new products and forms of weed. Alex is very generous with the cannabis products he gets at the dispensary, and shares them with me from time to time. I love the cannabis edibles they sell, and cannabis oil is pretty amazing to use in my vape pen. I’m sure there are dozens of cannabis products I haven’t even heard about! Until that fee is eliminated, I will never know the joys of shopping in a real cannabis dispensary.