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When it comes to home cultivation, the line of separation between medical and recreational marijuana becomes blurred, according to industry officials.
Cannabis expert witness and Oaksterdam University instructor Chris Conrad of El Sobrante, California said that in terms of physiology and the compounds in the plants, the two types of cannabis are pretty much indistinguishable.
“The question is do you have symptoms of some health conditions and does cannabis help you with those?” Conrad said. “That’s where the ‘all use is medical’ has a little bit of allure for some people. A lot of people that use it for medical purposes started off using for personal use and then they eventually come to realize they can get a medical benefit from it. Once they made that determination, then at that point then it is medical.
“The law says one thing, but people’s experiences are different from that,” Conrad said.
Even those already operating in the medical cannabis market said there…
