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A sign, outside Best Dispensaries near 15th and Harvard in Midtown Tulsa, reads: “No Medical Card Needed.” Viewers contacted FOX23 after seeing it, wondering if that was legal under Oklahoma law. FOX23 Investigative Reporter Janna Clark went to find out.
TULSA, Okla. — A sign, outside Best Dispensaries near 15th and Harvard in Midtown Tulsa, reads: “No Medical Card Needed.” Viewers contacted FOX23 after seeing it, wondering if that was legal under Oklahoma law. FOX23 Investigative Reporter Janna Clark went to find out.
Former cannabis industry worker Savannah Evans said the sign is misleading. Evans spent four years working in Oklahoma dispensaries before leaving the business.
“They’re like tricking people,” Evans said. “It’s such a known fact that you need a medical card in Oklahoma to shop at a dispensary.”
Oklahoma state law requires a valid medical marijuana card to buy marijuana products. Typically, dispensaries check that card before a customer can enter the sales area.
But at Best Dispensaries, it appeared to work differently. A FOX23 photojournalist went inside to see for himself. An employee told him it was legal to sell certain products at the front counter — without a card.
Days later, Clark went to the store herself.
“You can buy these things, but you have to have a card to go any farther.” Clark said.
Clark said she saw products displayed in a glass counter in the front area. When she asked about the sign on the building, employees told her the owner wasn’t available. She left her contact information and later received a voicemail from the owner but did not hear back after returning the call also sending him a text.
An employee told Clark the dispensary can legally sell the products up front without a medical card because they’re hemp-based.
That distinction comes down to three letters: THC — the chemical in marijuana that causes the “high” people feel.
The 2018 Farm Bill removed hemp from the federal list of controlled substances, defining it as an agricultural product rather than a drug. That law allows hemp-derived products with less than 0.3% THC to be sold without a medical card.
Critics say that created a loophole allowing marijuana-like products to be sold legally outside Oklahoma’s medical marijuana system.
Governor Kevin Stitt has criticized how the Farm Bill opened the door to hemp-derived THC products being sold legally.
In 2023, Stitt signed House Bill 2095, tightening Oklahoma’s hemp program and giving the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics more oversight over hemp processing and products.
“Oklahoma has gone from having the reputation of being the wild west of weed to now being viewed as having the most effective enforcement and regulatory oversight in the nation,” Stitt said in 2024.
FOX23 reached out to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics about the dispensary’s “no medical card” sign. A spokesperson said only that “OBN is looking into it.”
Evans believes the sign is a marketing tactic.
“It’s just kind of misleading,” she said. “Probably to drive more traffic, because it’s such a known fact that you need a medical card in Oklahoma to shop at a dispensary.”
The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) regulates dispensaries, so FOX23 reached out to them about the sign.
They said a medical marijuana license isn’t required to purchase hemp-derived products, but they warned these products do pose health dangers.
The OMMA said there’s a lack of testing and the products can be sold at anyone. In a July OMMA meeting, an OMMA council member called these products that can be sold without a card “service station weed.”
He said these products will get you high.
“14 and 13-year-olds went in and bought gas station weed,” said OMMA Council Member Randy Hendrix. “That should be enough scary stuff right there to get some action on this.”
Hendrix said there needs to be enforcement, but first there needs to be some guidance outlining what can be enforced.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A new Oklahoma law tied to medical marijuana access is now in effect, bringing significant changes for physicians.
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