There’s some details about the company after this report that make interesting if rather depressing news about Dispensed.
They are easy enough to find on Linked In but their website isn’t providing any information about their management or board and they aren’t it appears operating under Dispensed as a company name bacause i can’t find anything of any use at ASIC.
Let’s just say transparency isn’t their middle name but don’t worry your “alternative therapy journey to wellness starts here” and I presume they are laughing all the waay to the bank.
It’s all Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne…
Stuff NZ write
- Dispensed, one of Australia’s largest medicinal cannabis companies, is looking to start operating in New Zealand.
- Leaked emails show the company has approached vape stores, and others, to house its kiosks.
- The company said that vape stores would make up a minority of installation sites, and was working to establish a network of kiosks in pharmacies, chiropractor clinics, naturopathic clinics and physiotherapy clinics.
A large medicinal cannabis company is set to launch its New Zealand operation in the “coming weeks”, with its use of kiosks raising eyebrows in the industry.
Dispensed is one of Australia’s largest medical cannabis companies and partners with 900 retail outlets across the Tasman.
Emails obtained by Stuff show the New Zealand-registered company is recruiting sites for kiosks, including vape shops.
The company was “set to launch in New Zealand in the coming weeks,” one email said.
A spokesperson said Dispensed New Zealand was locally owned and operated, and “would operate in New Zealand as a software platform”.
The tablets meant patients could “sign-up for a medical service tailored to their specific needs”.
While the company was yet to install the kiosks, it was working to establish a network that would “connect patients with a range of medical service providers”.
That included “experienced natural medicine doctors, weight loss doctors, hair loss doctors, and practitioners specialising in smoking cessation,” the spokesperson said.
Asked about kiosks inside vape shops, the spokesperson replied that retail stores would “make up a minority of installation sites”.
The emails obtained by Stuff show vape stores were contacted by the company, which promoted the kiosk as a way “to generate a recurring income stream in this industry”.
The company appeared to be offering inducements to stores for each customer that was signed-up. An email sent to some stores asked retailers to click on a link to “earn passive income for your store”.
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The Melbourne Age wrote this story that we’ve mentioned before about Dispensed and the death of Dominic McCabe
Long after Dominic McCabe died, the packages kept coming. Month after month, as his family grieved his suicide, the small tubs in plain packaging would keep arriving at his house.
His family asked that they stop, but they kept coming. His bank account was repeatedly debited, his family sent the packages back. But still they kept coming.
Also read
Medicinal cannabis doctors investigated by authorities after suicide and hospitalisation of patients
In short:
The pharmacist who founded a medicinal cannabis company has been banned from supplying cannabis and two doctors have been suspended.
Two men with mental health conditions were prescribed medical cannabis by the business. One was hospitalised with psychosis, the other took his own life.
What’s next?
The company is still operating but the medical board says investigations are underway.
The pharmacist who founded the company, Dispensed, has been banned from supplying cannabis and two doctors have been suspended as authorities launch an investigation into the man’s death, and alleged inappropriate prescribing to another patient, the ABC can reveal.
Pharmacist banned from supplying medicinal cannabis, doctors suspended
In August, Dispensed founder and Melbourne pharmacist Adam Riad Younes was prohibited access to medicinal cannabis including supplying, administering, handling or dispensing the drug.
Company searches show he resigned as Dispensed Pty Ltd’s director earlier this month, but remains the director of VeteranCann, a medicinal cannabis telehealth platform specialising in treating veterans.
Dispensed’s Founder, pharmacist Adam Riad Younes has been banned from supplying medical cannabis.
A spokesperson for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) said conditions were imposed on Mr Younes’s licence through immediate action powers available when there is “a serious risk to the public, or strong public interest, requiring restrictions on a practitioner’s registration”.
Two doctors working for Dispensed also had their ability to practice completely suspended by the Medical Board of Australia in August under immediate action powers, AHPRA confirmed.
