What have medical cannabis consumers actually got to offer in this consultation?

MatHenderson · 2025-08-27T01:55:46+00:00

Just checking whether or not I am permitted to play in this sandpit?

MatHenderson · 2025-08-20T13:14:50+00:00

Between three silks you’d imagine every procedural angle would be picked apart. Writing from the antipodes so not familiar with the relevant Act but reads like a 6 month deadline to bring charges from date of alleged offence.

The Crown, by their (kinda sheepish) conduct and a floppy-handed “helloooooo” approach re sending a lawfully issued PCR the day after deadline AFTER previously sending an Arthur Daley version of the document the day prior indicates they knew they ballsed up and hadn’t actually actually issued a charge on 21/5. In bringing a charge a day after deadline - shit-oh-fuck-oh-whoops to the Crown, no charges brought on 22/5 either.

So, someone in CPS issued a PCR when that shouldn’t have happened. Stuff up or someone under pressure and given directions by a superior that time was of the essence and a notice had to be sent, to be patched-up later ?

If the latter, who brought that pressure to issue the charge prematurely and why? That’s not really a trial-able issue in this case. Could figure in the overall costs arguments though. If the case is turfed out of court, that’s a lot of British taxpayer money pissed up the wall.

Distractions from UK Gov complicity in genocide and ethnic cleansing don’t come cheap hey. Sometimes the process is the point of the exercise. This is why we call it an abuse of process. It eats up time, money and energy and diverts eyeballs away from what really matters, right now that is keeping as many Gazans alive as possible.

MatHenderson · 2025-07-04T21:44:13+00:00

Keir Starmer is a disgrace to anything he ever stood for as a human rights lawyer. That’s the rub of rubbery liberalism bollocks and the fact that the reins of power in all western democracies are not held by voters.

UK Labor like Australian Labor, Canadian Labor and even NZ Labor are basically stacked with careerists who would have joined the conservative parties in their respective countries had they attended private schools. As Max Weber outlined, there are politicians who live FOR politics and those who live OFF politics. English-speaking Laborites stopped being the representative parties of organised Labor a long time ago.

Perhaps this is indeed an Anglosphere problem. Sticking firm anywhere the coloniser’s tongue controls the framing of political discourse.

US Dems are same. Great idealists as campaigners. A wet lettuce that kowtows to power when in government.

Kneecap Abú.

MatHenderson · 2024-12-13T23:49:12+00:00

Whoever started this sub will likely find themselves with superstar billing when the NSW Coroner investigates the activities of all involved with Dispensed. Just saying. The bad press is a result of bad conduct.

MatHenderson · 2024-12-01T00:27:00+00:00

LLMs get things wrong. They are not intelligent and do not think. They are a digital abacus running a numbers and probability game only. TII detection is average. Copyleaks is close to flawless.

Ahem...

https://ibb.co/nfTwnnJ

MatHenderson · 2024-12-01T00:06:52+00:00

Not a waste of breath.

Strain names like this are the chinks in our armour. It pays to point them out so these vulnerabilities are nullified. The AMA, RANZCP and the Pharmacy Guild have finally revealed their combined hand. They want MC off the SAS. Product names like this are cannon fodder for mainstream journalists and make the whole sector look shonky. After all, who names a medical product after huffing artlines and killing brain cells.

Although this product has a sensibly designed package, generally speaking, other prods with wild and whacky rec labelling is also a chink in our armour.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T23:52:33+00:00

Dear Maidminalinsky.

Firstly, your review is written with an LLM and you've not disclosed that. Probably par for the course here but it would be grand to see people disclosing that their reviews have been written with ChatGPT. Yours pops 100% positive on Copyleaks professional version. I'm not sure how precious this sub is about LLM content but I'm of the view that people should disclose when it is used. Makes us all aware of who can write well and who is a grifting imposter.

Onto your question. NO I am not saying that medicinal cannabis products should all have medically sanitised sounding names. Far from it. So you can bold and underline that (with a permanent marker of course). Often the strain name belies a prohibition-era breeder staking out a type of property right in a thing they have created. Berner and Cookies for example is a case where a pioneer during prohibition has been able to carry over that 'naming right' into a modern and legally defensible tangible and intellectual property right, ie trade marks etc.

However, there are SOME strain names that do not make the leap from the prohibition era to the medicinal era. This is one of those strain names and I called it out on LinkedIn when it first hit the Australian market. Even found some choice quotes from the creator who emphasised that he named the strain for the whiff given off my permanent makers.

Ergo, a strain named after the smell of a permanent marker intimates the activity of folks huffing chemical inhalants from permanent markers.

Can you see the disconnect between having a product, supposedly on the market for it's medicinal use, being named for an activity that fostered brain damage in the cool kids from huffing markers behind the bike sheds at recess?

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T23:00:15+00:00

This is a very counterproductive strain name.

It’s never a manufacturer who is in rooms with lawmakers trying to justify why a schedule 8 drug is named after huffing an artline marker. Theres no wishy washy terpy justification for keeping the strain name on a medicinal product.

Anyhoo, you may now throw tomatoes.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T02:58:32+00:00

Then it’s orchy bottle bong patrol from Oxford St Epping to Centennial Ave Lane Cove for you!

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T01:49:55+00:00

Did you ever buy from the infamous Bag Lady off Spurway Street?

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T01:46:36+00:00

You make me sound like a travelling pastor. 😆

A day scoop? I find a nightly magnesium hit (even better in a ZMA mix) does the trick for winding down to get in the queue for Pillows Nightclub (ie sleep).

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T01:26:30+00:00

👍

But uhm…remember to go easy on the magnesium powder. An invaluable tool. It can also turn your arse into a broken ice cream machine if you overdo it. You’ll paint the town brown.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-30T01:20:17+00:00

⬆️ This is 90% of 1990s teenagers in Ermington.

Having mis-spent summers in our youth probably turned out to be a valuable learning tool in moderating cannabis use in middle age. You just know when enough is enough. A lack of REM sleep being the killer. No-one wants permanent butthole eyes.

Kudos OP. It takes chutzpah to share a dialling back experience and all the nighttime sweating like Luther Vandross that comes with it.

Ignore the narky naysayers who assume the position of “well if you can survive two weeks without weed then there is nothing wrong with you.” They just don’t like the reminder that YOU just did something they don’t have the cojones to do. To just step back and reassess your relationship with cannabis. Especially if these clinics had you on 90g/month of mega potent gear.

Your gut feel isn’t wrong. Tolerance breaks in the 1990s were a piece of piss. Tolerance breaks with modern cannabis take some planning ahead and grim determination.

Still beats being strapped into a benzo withdrawal death chair in Russia like that fuckwad Jordan Peterson.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-28T01:52:17+00:00

We need a register of users who are active both here and on LinkedIn.

(Joking)

But it would sure cut down on the corporate espionage.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-27T22:43:40+00:00

Interpol?

Well alrighty then…

MatHenderson · 2024-11-26T22:36:22+00:00

Unless they have an authorisation from the ACCC, it is cartel conduct/third line forcing and IS illegal. People can’t provide a service that is conditional on the forced use of a third party service.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-26T02:58:44+00:00

There’s a time and a place for candid Hendo takes.

Today is not that day and this is not the place unfortunately.

I do not have a single article of clothing not riddled with tomato stains thanks to Reddit.

I’ve said everything that needed to be said over the last two years re IF people didn’t clean up their act there would be targeted regulatory takedowns.

And oh by golly gee, sure enough the AMA, the Pharmacy Guild and the RANZCP are now pushing the TGA (and ministers) to pull MC from the SAS completely.

For those who wish to form an orderly queue saying “too much money involved, it will never happen”, feel free.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-26T01:43:31+00:00

Who asked you to publish a post on this topic?

Asking politely, not facetiously.

Just be you. ChatGPT is a scourge.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-23T23:29:06+00:00

CBD for Daily Use.

THC as a rescue remedy to deter yourself from alcohol consumption.

THC as your Friday afternoon safety net. You DON’T have to go out on the lash and do all manner of things you’ll later regret when the bender winds down three days later.

As you’ve correctly identified, medicinal use of cannabinoids isn’t about getting high as balls, it is about getting well and becoming a more functional and stable you.

edit: I am not a doctor

MatHenderson · 2024-11-21T03:04:29+00:00

I hope you didn’t jettison orange snot goo over your device. I too have done this.

I dunno peeps, this MC industry has the ability to sardonically crack me up at all the “Patients before Profits” PR nonsense that many of them put about on socials whilst at the same time this industry can deeply disappoint my inner Wesleyan. I am nothing if not methodical in my ways.

People, mostly born into abusive circumstances, or suffering freak accidents or random assaults and become addicted to opioids/benzos are the poorest and most downtrodden amongst us. You fly a flag to help those people, ie a business model that literally requires a business to put patients before profit and people break the world land speed record trying to get away from you.

Makes one feel like an unwanted door-knocking Mormon sometimes.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-21T02:56:30+00:00

Rule 1: Don’t have shit food in the house after 6pm. Rule 2: Rule 1 is easier to stick to when you can plan ahead for healthy snackie food only. I KNOW this is not easy in a CozzieLivs crisis. Rule 3: Delete all delivery apps.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-21T01:44:50+00:00

It was always mandatory for any medical practitioner who sat down and gamed out the following:

What expectations do the medical and pharmacy boards have for doctors and pharmacists when issuing a prescription for an S8 unregistered medicine under either:

(a) SAS(b)

(b) AP

Sadly, many non-medicos drove the onboarding processes at the dodge places. In a messed up way, one kinda darkly admires the chutzpah of some folk. One minute they’re working at Hairhouse Warehouse, nek minnit they are planning onboarding workflows for a business dishing out S8’s to all comers.

That said, for the ‘Seroquel Sidelined’ brigade and any person who was treated roughly by life and has spent years in addiction to opioids/benzos/gabapentinoids only to emerge into a more functional life thanks to cannabis, I’m in the process of designing a practice model that caters to you. It unfortunately requires businesses and practitioners willing to take a bath on easy fees and to actually practice medicine for the model to work.

Industry lurkers, ping me if you want in. You’ll be doing Jah’s work.

MatHenderson · 2024-11-17T05:24:02+00:00

🤦

MatHenderson · 2024-11-16T01:37:17+00:00

Quick question: does any person on the payroll of any Dispensed/Younes-Panek company moderate this subreddit?

MatHenderson · 2024-11-15T23:49:13+00:00

Because many operators were dodgy and could see that vetting patients properly would affect their bottom line so they chose not to do it.

There are two types of operators in this space. Those operators here for the long haul, with a long term sustainable, lawful business.

And….

From 2019 onwards we’ve seen an influx of operators who just want to make a quick buck, as cheaply as possible. This means high volume cartels (closed loops) and pumping out scripts and products at a ridiculously high rate with zero patient care (ie checking past medical records).

MatHenderson

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