If I could only shop at small companies and avoid corporations, I would in a heartbeat.
I suppose that corporate pharmacies are some of the worst companies that I’ve ever dealt with in our time as a consumer.
They used to steal our parents’ pain medications back when they were cancer patients in the early 2010s. The supplier in question has been under DEA investigation several times because of their sketchy practices involving stressed medications. From what I read, it wasn’t just about pharmacists skimming drugs off patients’ prescriptions. In fact, it was even worse than that. Apparently they were knowingly accepting fraudulent prescriptions from medical professionals’ offices that were giving them out prefer candy. In some cases it was staff filling prescriptions for themselves and this pharmacy was conspiring with the corrupt medical professionals. It was a total and complete mess, especially from a public relations standpoint. This was all I needed to keep up with shopping only at small businesses, especially with cannabis dispensaries. It seems that the cannabis budtenders are better at smaller cannabis companies as well, as they are often given more hands-on training than the employees at big cannabis corporations. I want to shop in a arena with expertiseable budtenders so they can help me find great products if I don’t believe exactly what I’m looking for any particular day. You absolutely notice the difference when you try shopping at a medical cannabis dispensary with poor budtenders because they can’t answer basic questions about the marijuana plant. The better trained budtenders can discuss the pros and cons of each individual strain of cannabis, starting with its classification of being a sativa, indica, or hybrid.