When you mention recreational marijuana then you have to consider what you get down the street from the guy. You can't go to the guy and say you want a one-to-one ratio CBD to THC. You don't go to the guy and get pesticide free, tested, measured, labeled and certified cannabis with the terpenes listed so that you chose your needed strain prior to purchase because that's what product meets your medical needs. This going online and picking your strain before you go to the dispensary might apply in a state that has access to both dispensary recreational cannabis that supplies the full appropriate terpene list for each product they sell so that you can see it up front and choose your medications based on content of constituents in the products available at the different dispensaries so you know which one to go to to get your needed medicine that day. We don't yet live in an age where we can say that medical marijuana and recreational marijuana are the same thing. For instance here in Florida we have no legal recreational marijuana, so the difference between recreational (what you get on the street from the guy) and what you get in the medical dispensaries is drastic. As someone with sporadically randomized medical symptoms, I'm someone who needs to be able to go to the dispensary and pick a variety of very specific cannabinoid contents. As someone with medical needs I have I need to be able to use cannabis at the moment that I need to use it so I have to have these different products from different terpene and cannabinoid mixes to different ingestion methods not available on the streets. Also medical marijuana is guided by a doctor. Of course if you live in a state where your "medical" marijuana is BS and you go to a "pot doc" just to get your weed, then of course it's not different medical than recreational because he's not concerned with any treatment of anything so he's not concerned with what type of needed diagnosis or proper guidance for any treatment. A pot Dr is not going to guide you "against" your own biases and temptations and desires for the sake of your actual medical treatment like a real medical doctor prescribing real medical marijuana would do. Medical marijuana is all about the discussion you have with your doctors combined with what types of cannabis you should have access to. Just to say that you have access to weed therefore you have access to medicine it's just like saying you have access to a pharmacy and a pharmacist who will give you whatever you want, but without a doctor to guide you then you just have recreational pharmacy. Just because you have somebody that can tell you chemically what the medicine is but not what different amounts of exactly what YOU need for your different symptoms. A recreational pharmacy would not be the same as a medical pharmacy because medication is based on what your doctor says you need and if somebody is uncomfortable with THC so they go and use a bunch of CBD then that would be recreational and it's doctor wants you to have CBD and use a bunch of THC than that would all be recreational or at least closer to recreational because your self-medicating rather than Dr. If you take somebody else's prescription because it makes you feel good that doesn't make it medicine that makes it recreational even though it had a prescription label on it. It's not the medicine that makes it recreational or medical, it's how you use the medicine that makes it recreational or medical. You're doctor might prescribe CBD or THC Delta 9 or Delta 8 but just assuming that they're all the same because they're all cannabis is not responsible or medical. It's not the pharmacy, it's not the medicine, it's the doctor and how the medicine is prescribed and used and what medicine you're using and why and how that makes it medical. Recreational users are going to be biased and most will aim mainly for THC content. If I have trouble sleeping and I take someone else's prescription sleeping medication, is that me using it medically or recreationally? Is self-medicating, a "medical" thing or a recreational thing?
When you mention recreational marijuana then you have to consider what you get down the street from the guy. You can't go to the guy and say you want a one-to-one ratio CBD to THC. You don't go to the guy and get pesticide free, tested, measured, labeled and certified cannabis with the terpenes listed so that you chose your needed strain prior to purchase because that's what product meets your medical needs. This going online and picking your strain before you go to the dispensary might apply in a state that has access to both dispensary recreational cannabis that supplies the full appropriate terpene list for each product they sell so that you can see it up front and choose your medications based on content of constituents in the products available at the different dispensaries so you know which one to go to to get your needed medicine that day.
We don't yet live in an age where we can say that medical marijuana and recreational marijuana are the same thing. For instance here in Florida we have no legal recreational marijuana, so the difference between recreational (what you get on the street from the guy) and what you get in the medical dispensaries is drastic. As someone with sporadically randomized medical symptoms, I'm someone who needs to be able to go to the dispensary and pick a variety of very specific cannabinoid contents. As someone with medical needs I have I need to be able to use cannabis at the moment that I need to use it so I have to have these different products from different terpene and cannabinoid mixes to different ingestion methods not available on the streets. Also medical marijuana is guided by a doctor. Of course if you live in a state where your "medical" marijuana is BS and you go to a "pot doc" just to get your weed, then of course it's not different medical than recreational because he's not concerned with any treatment of anything so he's not concerned with what type of needed diagnosis or proper guidance for any treatment. A pot Dr is not going to guide you "against" your own biases and temptations and desires for the sake of your actual medical treatment like a real medical doctor prescribing real medical marijuana would do.
Medical marijuana is all about the discussion you have with your doctors combined with what types of cannabis you should have access to.
Just to say that you have access to weed therefore you have access to medicine it's just like saying you have access to a pharmacy and a pharmacist who will give you whatever you want, but without a doctor to guide you then you just have recreational pharmacy.
Just because you have somebody that can tell you chemically what the medicine is but not what different amounts of exactly what YOU need for your different symptoms.
A recreational pharmacy would not be the same as a medical pharmacy because medication is based on what your doctor says you need and if somebody is uncomfortable with THC so they go and use a bunch of CBD then that would be recreational and it's doctor wants you to have CBD and use a bunch of THC than that would all be recreational or at least closer to recreational because your self-medicating rather than Dr.
If you take somebody else's prescription because it makes you feel good that doesn't make it medicine that makes it recreational even though it had a prescription label on it.
It's not the medicine that makes it recreational or medical, it's how you use the medicine that makes it recreational or medical.
You're doctor might prescribe CBD or THC Delta 9 or Delta 8 but just assuming that they're all the same because they're all cannabis is not responsible or medical.
It's not the pharmacy, it's not the medicine,
it's the doctor and how the medicine is prescribed and used and what medicine you're using and why and how that makes it medical.
Recreational users are going to be biased and most will aim mainly for THC content.
If I have trouble sleeping and I take someone else's prescription sleeping medication, is that me using it medically or recreationally?
Is self-medicating, a "medical" thing or a recreational thing?