Saw an ad on YouTube for this service saying something like “if you’ve experienced chronic pain for a long time with no improvement, “plant medicine” might be right for you.”. So I checked it out. The website continually says “plant medicine” and doesn’t specify at all wtf that actually means. Until I saw wording that very much indicates they’re talking about medicinal cannabis without actually saying what it is. I couldn’t find one mention of what they actually mean by plant medicine. Then looked up Alternaleaf Reddit and it’s a cannabis dispensary. Why can’t they just be honest about what they’re selling? That seems so stupid, sketchy and deceptive to me.
Not only that, but trying to have a monopoly over plant medicine as a given that plant medicine means medical weed seems really problematic. There are lots of other kinds of plant medicine, and a Google search shows it’s more commonly understood as a general term for herbal medicine.
Lastly, I think trying to peddle this to unwitting consumers who have no idea what they’re actually selling is harmful considering that cannabis isn’t always a solution and can destroy lives, even if it’s used medicinally.
If it were federally legalized they wouldn’t have to use alternate language and/or the FCC could require certain terminology when producing ads.
It probably links to it being illigal at the federal level still so ada would have to be sly about it.
Yep. It’s the wild west for a new industry.