The government and industry proponents project that the cannabis program could generate $100,000,000 in new tax revenue by 2020 and create 20,000 jobs.
around 72,000 patients have signed up for the program run by the Department of Health. The office's goal is to register 100,000 new patients by the end of the year.
“This thing works. It’s the real deal," said Rosa, who has survived cancer twice, in 2011 and 2013. He credits medical cannabis with greatly helping him during his treatments. “You can’t run from the haunting of cancer, but you can at least live more at ease so that your body can heal."His experience inspired him to create his own medicinal marijuana line with the highest possible concentration of CBD.
“People are looking for alternatives to chemicals that have secondary side effects," Carmen Serrano, CEO of NextGen Pharma, told NBC News. Banking is the biggest challenge, according to Julian Londoño, vice president of the Puerto Rico Medical Cannabis Association and a managing partner at NextGen Pharma.
Apart from banking issues, informing the public and law enforcement about medicinal marijuana is a constant challenge. Some patients like Rivera say that while they have greatly benefited from medicinal marijuana, they have to keep an eye on costs.
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