Clinics Cannabis Clinic Cardiff

[GrownHealth]

Having reading a couple of peoples experience of the Cannabis Clinic Cardiff I thought I'd look into it.
At first appearance it looks expensive ,but when I broke it down it didn't look so expensive after all.



As the £33/month can quite easily be negated with the Grow Access Project discounts that aren't available at many other clinics.



Also there's various oils available at usually £5 discount, so in effect after paying your initial joining consultation, you could easily break even or even save a few quids if you use a lot of Grow Access Project products.

 

[Muiredach]

Can't fault the clinic in over 18 months. They're completely independent, have no default pharmacy, and let you choose which for each prescription item line-by-line.

Between quarterly reviews you're given a limit for each type of product each month, that may be 60g flower, 100ml oil, 1ml of vape carts for example - and just email across your requests as required.

Only clinic offering both Grow Access Project and T21 so far, I have my fingers crossed they'll offer GLO's access scheme too before long.

 

[Rimmerworld]

Is Bubble Bath OOS here too? Im seriously considering them. I figured a few months of Gelato T18 and Hindu Kush would save me enough money vs Mamedica® and thier £300 strains i can offset the higher clinic cost in no time at all.

I just hate using multiple clinics, Having to redo my ID and summary of care.

 

[GrownHealth]

@Craig Mac this is the Cannabis Clinic Cardiff thread if you are interested with the info.

 

[GrownHealth]

Having reading a couple of peoples experience of the Cannabis Clinic Cardiff I thought I'd look into it.
At first appearance it looks expensive ,but when I broke it down it didn't look so expensive after all.

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As the £33/month can quite easily be negated with the Grow Access Project discounts that aren't available at many other clinics.

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Also there's various oils available at usually £5 discount, so in effect after paying your initial joining consultation, you could easily break even or even save a few quids if you use a lot of Grow Access Project products.

After sign-up either £33.33/pm or £100 per quarterly consultation.
If you are not deemed suitable for prescribing your initial consultation fee will be refunded.
No specific clinic formulary, all medications approved by MHRA considered for individual suitability. Follows all pharmacy formularies. Clinic policy not to try influence which brands doctors can prescribe.
Simple 'CBPM Request' form for medication requests between quarterly consultations, subject to clinical discretion.
100% independent, family owned, patient CEO.

CEO Sam Ashton & Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Dave Howells of Cannabis Clinic Cardiff appeared on these two shows discussing Medical Cannabis and access to it
Grow Conversations with Alex Fraser here
The Central Club discussing how to access Medical Cannabis here

 

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[Moon]

So expensive, CB1 Medical 50 a year and 7 a month to post the script. or if you move to CB1 no fees just the postage.

 

[node]

So expensive, CB1 Medical 50 a year and 7 a month to post the script. or if you move to CB1 no fees just the postage.

Yeah completely mate - but depends on your spend / reqs / use case. Cardiff offer massive flexibility so @GrownHealth health can get more of the cheaper meds quick, esp the deals so if your all over it it pays to be with them. I see it like BM its better with lots of different suppliers if you can manage it.

 

[GrownHealth]

So expensive, CB1 Medical 50 a year and 7 a month to post the script. or if you move to CB1 no fees just the postage.

I'd say it's the medicines that are expensive on a yearly basis and clinic fees pale into insignificance when you can pick your meds freely from all ranges available instead of being tied to a formulary that has limited options often the more expensive options to boot as with CB1 and Mamedica® in my experience . Also the ability to pick up price reductions easily as you can pick from any pricelist/formulary can prove invaluable to some .

So I would say although the initial outlay is expensive compared to some but it's probably a bit of a red herring when you think about total cost per year for everything as a whole as getting the right medicines and them being affordable is massive to me and although it's a massive struggle with two of us MC this adjustment to the range I can get has made it that much easier as I often don't need the more expensive strains but quite often that was all I could get in the past and that fact I've not had to think/worry about my clinic at all since joining is a big relief to me psychologically too.

 

[node]

We could cost this out across our top 3 clinics recommends if you like, flower only, transfer not new patient

- a) Patient with 60g+immovable meds budget £400+restricted THC
- b) Patient with 80g+ flex-ish budget £550 no restrictions

 

[node]

CB1 Medical

a) £400*13=£5200 + £5.82*13=£75 + restrictive THC 0% surcharge = £5275 per year
b) £550*13 =£7150 + £5.82*13 =£75 + (£10-£90 overcharge extra/good strain)month = £45*13=£585 = £7810 per year

 

[Moon]

Me CB1 Medical 6x 85 a month plus 7 postage = £6204. Shit.
My hash cost 600 per bar average, 6 a gram, never used more than a gram a day. 365 x 6 £2190
MC has trebled my costs, and it's not as good effect wise really. I'm paying a lot to be legal.

 

[GrownHealth]

Me CB1 Medical 6x 85 a month plus 7 postage = £6204. Shit.
My hash cost 600 per bar average, 6 a gram, never used more than a gram a day. 365 x 6 £2190
MC has trebled my costs.

Mad when you put into perspective and them £85/10g bags soon total up and this was my problem as the alternatives looked risky but now I can shop around to find viable alternatives ,obviously the new 4C Labs stuff if widely available will redress this balance a bit but it's an astronomic sum in total .

 

[node]

Yes its obscene but lacking alternatives right now so trying to cost it out best.

 

[node]

Me CB1 Medical 6x 85 a month plus 7 postage = £6204. Shit.
My hash cost 600 per bar average, 6 a gram, never used more than a gram a day. 365 x 6 £2190
MC has trebled my costs, and it's not as good effect wise really. I'm paying a lot to be legal.

BM has much more independents obviously so a proper functioning market. They don't want a proper legal market, big boys want full control...

 

[GrownHealth]

I've gone from say £400+ month as towards the later part of last year to about say about £350/ month on average now including clinic fees and I feel my stuff is lasting longer ,maybe because it's effective so may be able to chip a bit back yet and if we get to a point where I can be satisfied medically and it be under £300 would be another big milestone but still expensive compared to GYO lol which I reckon would cost about £60/month for two of us with some left over for other patients .

 

[node]

Yeah I've got to get the bill down - so I can afford you know like other things lol

 

[GrownHealth]

Yeah I've got to get the bill down - so I can afford you know like other things lol

Absolutely as they are big numbers monthly and any savings can total up quick as does expense in this arena .

 

[JR52]

I know a lot of people who think medical cannabis is too expensive an option for them

 

[Lank72]

Here I am, thinking about switching.

I've been (I think) really generous with Mamedica® in the past, even though they put patients through the pain of them growing by catching up with more staff and better systems rather than putting it in place ready. Periods where you can wait 2hrs on the phone, emails ignored.

Issues have cropped up in the past and sort of been resolved satisfactorily, and service levels improved for a while, but I'm back to basically being ignored if I email them (both the clinic and the dispensary). My latest script delivery was missing an item and it's basically not getting resolved so far; it's not the first time either.

Can someone with this Cannabis Clinic Cardiff clinic please give me the lowdown? Like for Mamedica it's all in-house clinic to meds delivery.

So I go to CCC, have my consultation - do they email me a script I can use at one pharmacy or divide between a few, I then deal with that/those pharmacies direct?

What happens on the months with no consultation?

Will they write a script for whatver I ask for like Mamedica does?