THE MORE YOU PRESCRIBE, THE MORE YOU GET. IN PRINCIPLE, THIS IS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE.

Fishman, CEO of Vivo Cannabis, which owns two clinic chains. “There needs to be a way to have a sustainable business … and it doesn’t appear the governments are providing adequate funding.”

In one corporate filing, Vivo says that it receives “educational grants” from producers, but stresses that its patient educators are not informed about the contracts with those companies, and make objective recommendations.

Clinics do receive income from the fees that some provinces, though not all, pay their doctors, but the largest chunk of revenue comes from producer payments, said Fishman.

Based on the few companies