Australia’s biggest medicinal cannabis company is offering bonuses to doctors to maximise the number of patients they treat, as recruitment ads show it expects medics to spend as little as seven minutes with new patients.
The company boasts in a current job ad that its “hyper-growth” is the result of an “integrated, end-to-end ecosystem” to sell cannabis. The company stocks its own brands of cannabis, has telehealth clinic Alternaleaf and distribution business Leafio.Montu’s marketing has landed it in frequent trouble with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which alleges in. Montu says it has not breached ad laws.
Two doctors who recently worked for Montu’s Alternaleaf telehealth clinic talked to this masthead about their roles but asked to speak anonymously to protect future employment elsewhere. He said high-volume cannabis companies made it difficult for doctors trying to do the right thing when prescribing. “It becomes this really hard space to negotiate with that patient because they haven’t had proper medical conversations before – they’ve just been given access to weed.”