Best Toronto Dispensary for Cannabis Hand Cream to Help My Mom's Arthritis???
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not an option unfortunately.
Devil Lettuce
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Can you elaborate? If you can legally obtain the cannabis starting material (you need to be legal to buy a cream at a dispensary anyhow), it is very quick, safe, easy, and inexpensive to make your own creme or salve, all you need is a kitchen and about 15 minutes:
I know cremes, salves, and tinctures are a lot harder to access here in canada, so it is often easier and cheaper to just do it yourself. This is just a really quick and easy method, there are others for fancier cremes which take a bit longer, but they also allow you to tailor the strength of the creme or salve to the needs of the patient, in this case your mom. Good luck and I hope you find a solution
Living in Toronto, I am sure you can find a dispensary that provides a creme, but just wanted to let you know that it is really easy and cheap to make one yourself.Cheers!
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Devil Lettuce
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Under the MMPR program, doctors can only prescribe flowers (bud) which are to be ordered from approved LP's.....there is no such thing as a cannabis prescription specific to creme forms under the MMPR program. Was your mom already a legal medical marijuana patient under either the MMAR (past) program? If not, and this is her first time trying access MMJ, then you need to either educate her doctor or find her a doctor that is aware of the MMPR framework and is willing to work with her. I would refer your mom's doctor directly to the regulations:
http://www.laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2013-119/
The section for health care professions is contained in Part 4, beginning on page 128.
If your doctor really is that ignorant about the program and will not prescribe even after you educate them, you can find a new doc, or sign your mom up with a Skype doc. Once she has a prescription she can order a bunch of medicine from an LP and you could easily make her a few month supply of cream with a single order. Once she is a legal patient, she would also have access to the local dispensaries which I am sure would carry the creme, but she will not have access until she is registered as a legal patient and has a prescription.
At this stage, other than buying starting product somewhere yourself and making a cream for her, these are your options. Doctors cannot prescribe a cannabis in a cream-only form, that is not how the system works.
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DubL
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Can you send me a private message????My mom has terrible pain in her hands from arthritis. I live in Toronto and want some arthritis cream for her but am not sure which dispensary has the best cream for the lowest price. Can you guys help us out?? Thanks.
thanks for the feedback so far guys, I appreciate the time. Let me elaborate a bit though. Neither my mother or myself are or have ever been mmj patients. I just heard and read a lot about mmj cream helping arthritis and thought I would maybe try to get some for my mom. Since traditional pharmacies don't sell them, I thought I would turn to dispensaries. Acquiring dried bud is not something were interested in.
Devil Lettuce
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I'm not sure that you understand how the dispensaries or the MMJ system works. You need to be a patient to even get into a dispensary. As such, you will either have to register yourself or your mom as a patient, or turn to the back market in order to get your own starting material to make cannabis cream. You won't be able to just stroll into a dispensary and buy medical marijuana products without all the proper documentation proving that you are a legal patient.
Jackal69
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why not try both.... make sure you get the forms from both places to get your doctor to fill out..... is it rheumatoid arthritis or basic arthritis? I would imagine the first .... is there a certain reason why getting dried bud is of no interest?
just seen yer post ... thought you could just get a doctor to sign their forms ... not being under MMPR, or do ya have to be a MMPR patient to get dispensary stuff?
just seen yer post ... thought you could just get a doctor to sign their forms ... not being under MMPR, or do ya have to be a MMPR patient to get dispensary stuff?
got it
i feel like bringing in forms to the doctor from more than one dispensary might be pushing my luck. Wanted an opinion of best dispensary to choose.
Jackal69
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just remember it's not a over night thing .... most times it's a long waiting game, but defiantly check out both first then decide whom you want to go with, just tell the doctor that it's a matter of continuity, if one runs out you have a backup to go to.
Devil Lettuce
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Best of luck, I hope you find a quick and effective solution for your mom's arthritis
Jackal69
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also if your mom decides going with the MMPR system and getting dried bud.... does not mean it has to be smoked, you also can make edibles and your own creams..... "magic butter" comes to mind.... if she is concern about the "high" you can make it weak enough that you don't get the high.... I would imagine some of the rheumatoid medicine is pretty hard on the body let alone the symptoms, my father inlaw had that and my wife said some days he was so fucked up, hands all crampy and hardly move
Unfortunately TCC doesn't reveal their location outside of their patients. stupid, because i know CALM is close to city hall and don't know if TCC is close by.