Is medical grade tea a thing? It takes a lot of skill and either great weather or a big investment in indoor growing equipment to grow a single medical plant. Comparing tea and cannabis prices doesn't make much sense.
Now stop that right now! :) I strongly doubt there is any such thing as "medical-grade" marijuana.
"Medical marijuana" refers to pot sold in such as way as to shield the buyer and seller from criminal liability (by requiring a prescription from a health-care provider). No official or semi-official body is holding this medical marijuana to any standard.
Heading off a potential nit: in the last year or two a new strain of pot much lower in THC and much higher in CDB has arrived on the scene, and some doctors are advising some patients to use that strain, but as far as I know, no one refers to that as medical marijuana.
> I strongly doubt there is any such thing as "medical-grade" marijuana.
Actually, marijuana contains about 70 different cannabinoids. Different strains contain different ratios of these cannabinoids, and therefore different strains can be more (or less) effective for treating various ailments. Epileptics may require different strains from people suffering from chronic pain, for example.
For people who have very specific medical needs, it is very helpful to have access to specific strains so that they can consume less and still reap the benefits.
High CBD/low THC strains are absolutely referred to as MMJ. They're being specifically cultivated and researched for medical uses (especially for epilepsy) in Israel and elsewhere.
Also, calling the "medical" label a legal shield is bizarre. Medical cannabis is, as others commented, high-grade cannabis useful for treating serious conditions and helping cancer, AIDS, MS patients, etc.
I'm sorry but I don't think you are informed on this topic at all.
It's no big deal to me, but where I live, California, the phrase "medical marijuana" has been in general use for at least 15 years, with the meaning I indicated, whereas ISTR the high CBD/low THC strains are only about 2 years old.
ADDED. You seem to have taken my comment as an attack on the ability of people with medical problems to get marajuana, but it was not meant that way -- and in fact, I'm for sick people's having that ability -- though I have not made a deep analysis of the issue (and there is a chance that such a deep analysis would change my mind).
I just do not like to see a word that has been used in one way -- by many journalists and commentators and by the general public -- used in a confusingly different way.
Doesn't 'Medical Grade' just mean high quality? IANAS but there are lots of different levels of quality right?
Like in Pulp Fiction? "That one's a Wild Man."
It just means highly potent, pro grown weed that is suitable for medical use. The expression comes from all those California legal grows who produce AAA weed as compared to shake/brickweed junk you get on the street
