A quick clip of my first dispensary purchase in Vancouver! In May 2015 I got my first dispensary card. NO, not a card to a BC Gov't store, a card to a grey market dispensary, one of many that were operating in the hayday of compassion just before legalisation crushed everything with its iron fist, closing all of the dispensaries selling legit medicine to desperate patients. Sour Diesel was my first strain and an instant favourite, especially those little grape nugs. It was also my first experience with delicious, high-potency edibles other than some cookies at past 420s.
It had been such an exciting time - having a bunch of different strains and products like capsules and oils made me very healthy! Especially coming from a time of desperation, where you only have one source and you're ripe for abuse because of it. Not to mention the hayday was one of the funnest times ever; the culture was thriving and people were loving it. That must have helped with the health aspect for sure.
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But in the 90s there were only a couple of compassion clubs like B.C. pain management society, who sold affordble medicinal cannabis to patients prescribed by a doctor. This was hard to get and not very common, so not attacked by police. By the 20-teens, these dispensaries were all over Vancouver, occasionally being attacked and raided by police, but also protected under our constitution with the help of activists, what a strange time.
Now with legaLIEsation in Canada, prohibition has gotten worse than the 90s. ALL of these compassion clubs and real dispensaries are being closed to open Government stores that sell irradiated, low-potency, improperly grown cannabis bud only in thick wasteful plastic container packaging at literally 4x the free market price.
The government is taking away our right to life saving medicine by saying that we have "access" to their overpriced, overregulated recreational market. If you're itching to mention that we "got what we asked for" because you've heard that Canadians are allowed to grow, please go carefully research the details of that before misinforming people.
