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I bet that in the US, no health insurer will ever pay for an insured person's marijuana.
by hollerith 3y ago
I bet that in the US, no health insurer will ever pay for an insured person's marijuana.
- Invictus0 3y agoI'll happily take the other side of that bet.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI agree it's unlikely. THC may have some medical uses, but smoking it certainly does not. Perhaps gummies/edibles would be covered under some circumstances -- but to be a prescription or even an OTC "medication" it has to go through FDA approval to demonstrate efficacy and document the side effects, and it will have to be manufactured to pharmaceutical standards of potency and purity, which will make it more expensive. I think it will most likely be like alcohol: sold for recreational use, age-restricted, and not medical.
- int_19h 3y agoI bet that CBD will be covered very quickly, because it really does work very well for so many things, so it shouldn't take long to have enough studies clearly in support of it.
- hollerith 3y agoAre there strains of marijuana high in CBD but almost absent of THC?
- grugagag 3y agoYes
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoYes but the trick is mostly just harvesting early.
- int_19h 3y agoI'm not sure exactly how this works, but you can get CBD as pills with no THC in them. (Although anecdotally the best results are obtained from taking mostly CBD with a tiny bit of THC; it appears that the latter does something that makes the former's effect more potent. So you see stuff like e.g. 20:1 CBD:THC pills around - can't get high on that, but very effective at pain management. However pure CBD pills are still more common.)
- hollerith 3y agoMagnesium supplements work very well for many things, too, but are there American insurance plans that pay for it?
- salad-tycoon 3y agoHonestly, yes you can but from what I’ve seen it’s the most useless form because it’s the cheapest: magnesium oxide. Good for laxative effects, bad for uptake. I prefer glycinate personally.
- hollerith 3y agoHuh. TIL.