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Flower Shortage in PA - Growing Pains or Structural Problems?
Featured, Interviews, PodcastA Panel of Industry Watchdogs Weighs in on Flower Shortage
Medical cannabis patients in Pennsylvania are experiencing a severe flower shortage at the state’s legal dispensaries. Many people are angry, many are quite vocal about who is to…

Inside SB 350, PA's Adult-Use Bill: An Exclusive Interview with Senator Daylin Leach
Featured, Interviews, NewsSenator Daylin Leach was a co-author of Act 16, which legalized Medical Marijuana in Pennsylvania. Signed into law in April 2016, the first dispensaries opened two years later in February 2018, and since then over 200,000 patients have had access…

How To Run A Patient-Focused Dispensary: An Interview with Victor Guadagnino, Jr.
Featured, Interviews, PodcastIn this podcast, Dispense Publisher Sven Hosford and Editor-in-Chief Kristal Oknefski talk with Victor Guadagnino Jr., Manager and co-founder of Keystone Canna Remedies. He and his aunt Joan have created a model for how to run a Patient-focused…

Dispense Publisher Featured in Pittsburgh Business Times
Featured, NewsThe Pittsburgh Business Times posted a blog about Medical Cannabis today, spotlighting several Pittsburgh area industry experts. The article, titled, “Ask The Experts: Medical Marijuana in Pennsylvania,” features, among others, our Founder…

Message from the Publisher
Featured, NewsThe beginning of Summer is a great time to announce an exciting new addition to the Dispense Magazine website.
On the Summer Solstice, we in the Northern Hemisphere observe the longest days of the year, when the sun rises the…


Cannabis and Mental Health - PART II
Health, Interviews, PodcastAt a recent Dispense with the Nonsense event in Harmony PA, we recorded a panel discussion with a live audience on the topic of "Cannabis and Mental Health".
Cannabis and Mental Health Panelists included:
Dr. John Metcalf, Ph.D., MD, ABIM,…


Cannabis and Mental Health - PART I
Health, Interviews, PodcastAt a recent Dispense with the Nonsense event in Harmony PA, we recorded a panel discussion with a live audience on the topic of "Cannabis and Mental Health".
Cannabis and Mental Health Panelists included:
Dr. John Metcalf, Ph.D., MD, ABIM,…



From the Publisher Sven Hosford
Health, News
You hear it in every pharmaceutical TV commercial. “Ask your doctor if this drug is right for you.” Now that Pennsylvania has joined 28 other states in regulating the medicinal use of it, now is the time to “ask your doctor”…