Carts Good new Alternaleaf patients

[williemed]

Just had confirmation that carts have been revised to be equivalent of 10g flower instead of 20g

One caveat - they can't modify prescriptions that were issued prior to today - but from now onwards they count as 10g.

Peace

 

[Marcopologist]

What were the implications of this? I only ever ordered a cart per prescription

 

[GrownHealth]

Welcome @Marcopologist and I would of thought it will be the same for you but possibly you may be able to order 10grams extra flower and still stay within your limits as they may well of been counting your cartridge as 20g towards your total allowance previously

 

[Marcopologist]

Welcome @Marcopologist and I would of thought it will be the same for you but possibly you may be able to order 10grams extra flower and still stay within your limits as they may well of been counting your cartridge as 20g towards your total allowance previously

Oh I see, I haven't had any issues yet with limits. I did not realise that was a thing, last order I had 30ml of THC isolate and 1 cart so would that have been equivalent to 20g + how much Is THC oil even

 

[williemed]

Yeah exactly mate spot on @GrownHealth

@Marcopologist I have a 60g allowance so if I wanted to get an Indica cart and Sativa cart for convenience, I could only get 20g flower. Would have had to pay £39 for a consultation to raise my limit, and 20g/cart doesn't make any type of sense anyway mathematically speaking or in real world use, so it's good to see this adjusted (and quite quickly I might add, great response to feedback from Alternaleaf!)

 

[Marcopologist]

Yeah exactly mate spot on @GrownHealth

@Marcopologist I have a 60g allowance so if I wanted to get an Indica cart and Sativa cart for convenience, I could only get 20g flower. Would have had to pay £39 for a consultation to raise my limit, and 20g/cart doesn't make any type of sense anyway mathematically speaking or in real world use, so it's good to see this adjusted (and quite quickly I might add, great response to feedback from Alternaleaf!)

Interesting, I'm nearing my quarterly appointment so I'll ask then about allowance. I'm suspecting they haven't said anything as i'm just starting out.

 

[williemed]

Interesting, I'm nearing my quarterly appointment so I'll ask then about allowance. I'm suspecting they haven't said anything as i'm just starting out.

Good idea, it’s worth asking so you know what you’re allowed to request on repeats without requiring a consultation I thought for the first month or two I could only get 30 but it turns out I had a 60 limit all along

 

[Highthere]

You know what bothers me? The random flower dosage equivalent assigned to any carts in the UK. On Aurora®'s website in Canada, their 1.2 g carts are considered to be the equivalent of 6 grams of dried flower. So why in the first place would pharmacies botch the maths so badly and treat all 1g carts at 20g in the first place?

If I was a cart user I would be hounding my clinic until I had answers. Surely this can change with enough complaints?

 

[GrownHealth]

You know what bothers me? The random flower dosage equivalent assigned to any carts in the UK. On Aurora®'s website in Canada, their 1.2 g carts are considered to be the equivalent of 6 grams of dried flower. So why in the first place would pharmacies botch the maths so badly and treat all 1g carts at 20g in the first place?

If I was a cart user I would be hounding my clinic until I had answers. Surely this can change with enough complaints?

I know a few clinics have changed the amount it counts as towards patients allowance down to 10g so a bit of common sense has kicked in thankfully due to this discrepancy being highlighted

 

[Highthere]

But even then, why 10 grams when the producer lists it at 6g? I understand the little victory from 20g to 10g, but shouldn't the real goal be to have medication provided at the right dose? In this instance, having one 1.2g cart being listed as a 6 gram equivalent (not 10g, not 20g).

 

[GrownHealth]

Just crossed my mind that the 10g flower allowance that a cart replaces also has a massive variable as 10g of flower allowance of 13%THC to 31% THC.
So thinking about it there is no sense at all in equivalences in this format as the 10g of flower could have between 1300mg THC to 3100mg THC so that's confuses it even further but the call for accuracy is spot on as it is medicine .

 

[Highthere]

Dosing is uncannily flawed as a whole in MC. I'm not sure if that's a result of regulations, customs, soft laws, profitability, opportunism, or sheer stupidity (or all of the above).

Another thing that bothers me is opting without question for the practice of allowing a 10% deviation in weight. No such authoritarive word says that this practice should occur, and yet it occurs (almost as though someone misunderstood the ±10% deviation of THC and cannabinoids and applied it to weight and it was never questioned). It seems borderline illegal to shortchange someone in general, let alone with medicine.

Imagine if this practice applied to any other pharmaceuticals... It would have deadly repercussions! How is this considered a sound and safe practice? Hopefully the MC community will find a "whale" to fund a shit-ton of litigation challenging the status quo.

Seems we ought to be writing a manifesto. Ha.