Don't be taken in by the cheap authorization price--this place is bogus.
A friend told me that cannabis salve eased his arthritis pain considerably, so I thought I would get authorized and give it a try on my hand. I made an appt with Hope Clinic. Big mistake! They are unprofessional and, I suspect, maybe not even a legal business.
First off, the "clinic" is very hard to find--it's hidden inside the offices of Dope magazine! Must be a new profit center for Dope. There is no signage anywhere outside the building and Hope is not listed in the building directory. I had to ask the person working the lunch counter where Hope Clinic was--she pointed downstairs. Even down there, no signage. I wandered into the Dope offices to ask where the clinic was and, surprise!, there was the first sign. Strange! They are so under the radar it makes me wonder if they are legal or not.
That was annoying but what was worse was the interaction with the receptionist. I made the appointment by phone a few days earlier and told her that I didn't have any medical records for arthritis--I hadn't seen my regular doc specifically about that. In spite of that, she made the appointment. Then when I got there today, the same person told me that the clinic had to have medical records--without them I couldn't be seen. I thought I was going to see a doctor so why do I need corroborating records? And why did that dummy waste our time by accepting the appointment?
Don't confuse these guys with the "Hope Clinics" (note plural). Apparently whoever is running Hope Clinic used to be with them. Anyway, taking into account the shady "hidden entrance", the lack of a real medical office, the incompetence of the receptionist (I don't know about other staff), and the fact that they choose to foster confusion by adopting nearly an identical name as their previous coworkers (stealing the name?), I wouldn't have any confidence in this place. read more