The Real Reason Medical Marijuana is Not Covered By Insurance.

This week I did something awesome!

You may think your life is full of excitement and glamor. You may be flying on a private jet to Cannes to see the latest Scorsese movie “Old Mob Guys Kill People”. You may be eating Alpaca livers with the Rolling Stones in Ibiza. You may be drinking a magnum of La Grande Dame, Veuve Clicquot as both of your dates snort cocaine off of the stomach of a member of the British royal Family. But none of that would be remotely as cool as how I spent my week, for I was in Washington DC, at an insurance conference!

I attended the annual conference of NABIP, the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals for several reasons. Obviously, there was the bewitching charm of all things insurance. But I also wanted to figure out what needs to happen to get medical marijuana covered by insurance.

I always enjoy it when people approach me on the street and tell me that the Pennsylvania medical cannabis law I passed in 2016 has really helped them. It certainly beats when people approach me and ask me if I’m Randy Quaid (spoiler alert: I’m not).

However, not every encounter is entirely positive. Through the years, numerous people have confronted me with versions of “It’s great that we can get cannabis now, but it’s too freakin’…