Oklahoma Medical Marijuana dispensaries now report and pay monthly sales taxes totaling roughly $6.5 million in the latest month of reporting. This equates to annual revenue for the state and municipalities at nearly $80 million, for medicine sales. In contrast, Opioid sales in Oklahoma brought no revenue and cost the state vast sums in emergency room costs to medicaid and even more when state addiction intervention services are factored in.
   For the first time in 11 months, the average patient sales actually went down. The August average patient spent $224 in purchases. But in September, the average patient spent $217 in cannabis medicines. This does not take into account the personal gardening options which a patient now has the legal authority to rely on.
  Total sales in Oklahoma are now on a trajectory to exceed $500 million annually, at the current rates of sales. ​

  Fifty years ago, one of the biggest healthcare challenges was the stomach ulcer. Pharmaceuticals were making vast wealth off the introduction of new antacids to give patients some hope of better relief, but they were all told that they had a mental health problem. Namely, they weren't dealing with stress and their lives, and that stress created the ulcer.
  So several millions of people were carrying a dangerous bacterial infection, and spreading it to many others. Not only were these patients lied to and left to suffer for the rest of their shortened lives; but they were shamed openly as  poorly dealing with stress.
  Then a curious county coroner in the Outback of Australia started collecting data on deceased individuals and saw the correlation of the bacterial presence and the health records indicating that ulcers were diagnosed.  Dr. Barry Marshall eventually got the help of Dr. Robin Warren
  But there was a complete stonewall of defiance from the established medical research gatekeepers. Every request for research help was immediately rebuffed without so much as curiosity about their unorthodox hypothesis. 

  In late August of 2018, the Oklahoma Dept of Health entered a brave new world of rejecting the 'reefer madness' propaganda that the federal drug czars spent billions to impose on the USA.
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  Establishment health bureaucrats tried desperately to subvert and derail the will of the people, but the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority still went live & online to get the patients connected with their effective medicines.

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  Here's a report from the OMMA to highlight the accomplishments of the first year. ​