It was just hours after Oklahoma voters approved State question 788 on Wednesday that a medical cannabis clinic in Tulsa opened.
Tulsa Higher Care Clinic had many people enter the clinic but many wonder what was the clinic selling?
Without any patient or business licensing program they couldn’t be selling marijuana.
“Your initial appointment is $250. That covers your first appointment and right now, because the state doesn’t have their portal set up, it also covers a follow-up appointment,” said co-owner Whitney Wehmeyer.
“That’s the biggest misconception — that we dispense weed,” Wehmeyer sad to the Tulsa World.
“It’s no different than any other medication. Your doctor gives you a prescription and then you go to a pharmacy. Your doctor doesn’t have a box of pills in the back to hand out.”
“Ninety percent of the people who came in are either on Medicaid, Medicare or have doctors at St. John, Saint Francis, and Hillcrest and they’re telling us that their doctors say their hospitals have said they will not let them write prescriptions or recommendations. We are the alternative if you don’t have a doctor,” explained Wehmeyer.
Patients will be seen by Dr. Jason Sims who is also a co-owner of the clinic.
“A lot of doctors just don’t understand cannabis because they haven’t been around it. I don’t do it, but marijuana use has been around for as long as we’ve had written history. I want my patients to have alleviation of pain. I don’t want my patients to get high,” Sims stated.
