{"id":4172,"date":"2024-10-17T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T04:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/medical-cannabis-culture-marketing-madness-snake-oil-salesmen-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:26","slug":"medical-cannabis-culture-marketing-madness-snake-oil-salesmen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/medical-cannabis-culture-marketing-madness-snake-oil-salesmen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Cannabis Culture Marketing Madness \u2013 Snake Oil Salesmen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sales\"Australia\u2019s medicinal cannabis industry, once touted as the miracle cure for everything from stubbed toes to existential dread, is now revealing its true colours \u2013 and they\u2019re not so green and wholesome after all. Recent investigations have peeled back the tie-dye curtain to expose a cesspool of dubious practices, gaping regulatory black holes, and a cavalier attitude towards patient safety that would make even the most hardened snake oil peddler blush.<\/p>\n

This \u201cwonder drug,\u201d championed by hipsters and desperate patients alike, was supposed to be the panacea of the 21st century. Instead, it\u2019s shaping up to be nothing more than a cash grab, with profit-hungry vultures circling vulnerable patients like moths to a flame \u2013 or should we say, stoners to a dispensary. As accusations of reckless prescribing and marketing tactics fly, one can\u2019t help but wonder: Is this the second coming of reefer madness, now with a shiny \u201cmedical\u201d label slapped on for good measure?<\/p>\n

The Dispensed Controversy: A Tale of Two Tragedies<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the heart of the controversy are telehealth platforms and clinics specialising in medicinal cannabis prescriptions. These businesses, operating in a regulatory grey area, have led to an explosion in cannabis prescribing<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, raising alarm bells among medical professionals and regulatory bodies alike.<\/p>\n

(For complete story WRD News<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s medicinal cannabis industry, once touted as the miracle cure for everything from stubbed toes to existential dread, is now revealing its true colours \u2013 and they\u2019re not so green and wholesome after all. Recent investigations have peeled back the tie-dye curtain to expose a cesspool of dubious practices, gaping regulatory black holes, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}