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This happened to 2 friends of mine with Curaleaf, after the first couple of prescriptions they were able to 'push' for a choice which they then got. Both have now left and moved to CB1 Medical who are free for a year to move to. So its either put up with their choices for you for a couple of months or jump clinics i guess. I had the same issue with Releaf and moved 12 days after joining them to cb1.Good afternoon everyone and hope your having a great Sunday.
Any thoughts- advice on not being given any choice of medicine at the doctors/clinical substance misuse expert as he introduced himself as !
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Sounds crap mate not being listened to do with choices as your the one who has to pay for it all said and done also I would of told him wrong place ,I've not come for rehab but medicine to help me but the ball is very much in your court but I will say from other members here the choice does widen but slowly.Good afternoon everyone and hope your having a great Sunday.
Any thoughts- advice on not being given any choice of medicine at the doctors/clinical substance misuse expert as he introduced himself as !
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Your free to apply elsewhere but I just want to double check if you would need a discharge letter further along the line as you have not been dispensed meds ,also you can sign up with a new clinic and be dispensed meds usually before a discharge letter is needed so that in theory wouldn't hold things up.
I'd call Curaleaf to tell them why your not willing to go forward with their service ,not that I expect they will pay any attention as this seems to be the way they choose to operate .
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Not until after you are with someone else. Join another clinic, get your first script from them, then ask Curaleaf for a discharge letter and send that to new clinic. Is the safe way to move.
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That's just Curaleaf, they have very restrictive prescribing policies which they explain away with made-up "clinical" justifications when it is very clearly an entirely financial/business/strategy decision for them, which in my opinion is extremely shady practice that their drs should be objecting to under multiple regulatory and ethical grounds.Good afternoon everyone and hope your having a great Sunday.
Any thoughts- advice on not being given any choice of medicine at the doctors/clinical substance misuse expert as he introduced himself as !
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If you look at a clinic like Releaf, their formulary is extremely small and most of it comes from a single dispensary, so it's a naturally a restricted clinic. But at least they're up front and honest about it and you know at the point of sign-up that they're a clinic who takes that approach.
Whereas Curaleaf publish a massive formulary on their patient portal, yet most patients can't order from it directly and need to run everything by a consultant, or at best they have a small selection from a dropdown list, but no clinical rhyme or reason is ever given for which strains are made available to any given patient, and it varies randomly from month to month, and certainly nothing is advertised on their site or during the first consultation about their prescribing policies.
As far as I can tell, most people leave Curaleaf after a few months and go to a much less restrictive clinic. They seem to be the "front door" of the medical cannabis industry in the UK, but as with most front doors, people don't tend to loiter near it when there are more interesting wares deeper inside.
I'd imagine the patients who stay with them long term will be people who have very little prior knowledge or experience of cannabis and are happy to just get a bag that says "medical cannabis" on it and think no further about it. Probably the more elderly clientele and those with terminal or life-limiting conditions where the urgency of getting just any sort of THC medicine is far more important than exploring the perfect terpene combo or whatever. They've probably purposefully chosen this niche of the market, and their prescribing policies are probably there to reinforce that, in the same way that car insurance companies set their prices and policies to influence the type of customer they tend to end up with. And for everyone else they're just happy to collect a few consultation fees per new patient and have a high turnover rate. I'm sure it's a great business decision, but it makes them totally unpalatable to the average MC patient imo.
So advice: if you choose to stay with Curaleaf, just keep pushing for your preferred options at consultations, push for a strain selector to be added to your patient portal and hope that decent strains are offered to you on it. Their booking system for consultations is a little strange, but if you are finding your particular consultant too restrictive and think you might have more luck with another, try booking a consultation with a different clinician on a day that your usual clinician seems to be off/unavailable. I tried this twice, but both times they cancelled my appointment and booked me up with my usual consultant, giving some excuse that the consultant I'd booked was ill etc, but it seemed to convenient to me, and those perceived underhand tactics really annoyed me. But maybe worth trying again in case it was just coincidence in my case? Really do your research and show the consultant that you've done so. If you can give clinical reasons why you'd like to try a particular strain, I think they're more likely to agree to it. Cite terpenes, user reviews from people with your condition, etc, as your justification.
Otherwise, apply elsewhere, many clinics are available across a wide spectrum of restrictiveness.
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no just stop/pause your card(s) - you never know they may have an exclusive hash to arrive soon....
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You don't need a discharge letter but by being pre approved at another clinic( and being able to evidence it )it will speed up things at any new clinic as MDT approval is far easier if you do get a discharge letter which is easy enough to request and probably the way I would go about it .
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I got my approval first then got the discharge letter. The anxiety of leaving one clinic before being approved at a second would have been too much!
The same with me as in transfer and prescribed before requesting Discharge letter and I suppose we were just trying to work out if he did or didn't need a discharge letter at all as he's not yet actually received any meds from them and whether he could possibly just walk away and start afresh at another clinic.
They only have 9 medications on their formulary unfortunately and are a brand new clinic finding their way
