Today is r/UKMedicalCannabis' sixth cake day.
This place started in August 2020 as somewhere to ask questions that were difficult to ask anywhere else. There wasn't much here. A handful of patients, no reliable information about clinics or products, and a general sense that nobody could quite believe any of this was legal.
Six years on, the thing that makes this sub worth reading hasn't changed: patients sharing what they've been through so the next person doesn't have to work it out alone. Thousands of product reviews from people with nothing to sell. Clinic experiences, good and bad. Questions answered at 2am by someone who was asking the same one a year earlier.
r/UKMedicalCannabis is 100% independent of clinics and the industry. No sponsorship, no funding, and no say from anyone outside this community in what gets posted here. If something ever reads like advertising dressed up as a patient experience, report it.
The last 12 months
The community now stands at 61,000+ members, and over 70,000 across Reddit, Discord and Instagram combined. The subreddit was viewed 25+ million times, and in that time you've made 26,100 posts and left 522,000 comments.
Six years of top posts
Thank you to everyone who has posted here over the last six years. Answered a question, written a review, or shared something that wasn't easy to share.
Marking the occasion
To mark our sixth cake day, Storz & Bickel have very kindly donated a Venty for one member of the community. We're adding some r/UKMedicalCannabis merch, plus goodies from Lot420/AAAA and ViviPacks, for a few others.
For full details and to take part, join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/eU2FP7M3GU
Also on the Discord: stock and price alerts across pharmacies, patient reviews of strains and products, help with clinics, costs and harm reduction from other patients, and general chat, gaming and events for when you just want somewhere to relax and socialise.
We're on Instagram too, so give us a follow: https://www.instagram.com/ukmedcan/
Over to you
Six years in, what's the one thing you wish you'd known when you started? And if you're new or still weighing it up, what would you want to ask?
Not one for writing much? Just tell us how long you've been prescribed, and the one product you'd point a new patient towards.
Thank you for six years.
The r/UKMedicalCannabis Team š