The worth of medical hashish in Virginia is “categorically larger” than costs in different states, which has resulted in 90% of the state’s sufferers buying merchandise from exterior the state’s medical hashish market, in accordance with a Hashish Public Coverage Consulting (CPPC) report authored on the request of the Virginia Hashish Management Authority.
The report, which surveyed 1,827 hashish customers in Virginia, 476 of whom are registered medical hashish sufferers, discovered sufferers on common spent $19 per gram for flower; nevertheless, publicly out there worth information from the state dispensaries suggests costs are about $14 per gram. Comparatively, CPPC discovered the typical worth per gram in Washington, D.C. was $8.73 per gram and a $9.27 common per gram worth in Maryland. The CPPC discovered that 12% of Virginia medical hashish sufferers traveled to D.C. or Maryland to acquire medical hashish merchandise.
The agency additionally discovered that about 57% of Virginia medical hashish sufferers grew their very own hashish and that 65.2% of sufferers obtained hashish from pals or household.
The report means that the excessive costs of medical hashish in Virginia “are seemingly essential for Pharmaceutical Processors to stay solvent given the present market and coverage situations and are unlikely to point an effort to deliberately overcharge medical sufferers.” The report means that Virginia medical hashish sufferers are acquiring 76.4% of their hashish grams from sources exterior of the state’s regulated market.
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