Why don't we pull our resources and start a dispensary?

[COzigzag]

Does that sound so unrealistic?

Some of you are growers and know the growing side like the back of your hand.

Some of you can design and/or set up a grow area of this size.

Some of you are experts in the cloning business.

Some of you are dispensary owners but for one reason or another will no longer be in the business soon. You know the ins and outs of this business.

Some of you have some money but your strength is in one area of the business and can't quite seem to pull it all together.

Lets pull it together and come up with a plan that benefits everybody involved.

Start a dispensary. Lease a warehouse. Hire existing caregivers to grow for the dispensary. The existing caregivers encourage the patients that they can't continue to care for to give the dispensary their caregiver status.

Keep prices reasonable, quality high.

Pay is based on monthly profits after expenses minus an agreed upon percentage of monthly profits kept in an account for unforeseen issues (next years license fee, etc.) Hire an accountant with no ties to any one person. Have complete financial transparency.

Keep it real and keep it honest. Everybody is equal and everybody will work to keep the business going. Pay is ultimately based on profits.

What do you think? :question:

[denverbear]

this actually makes a lot of sense if it could be done...just think..multi owners and free labor to some extent.....this could work as a co-op of many people banding together to beat Romers system.

[neversummer]

You are a little late, i think 600 people have already done this. I think there are plenty of dispensaries already, you would just be adding to the problem in my eyes. How about all patients grow there own. How about only going to caregivers.

What we need is more co-ops. Less warehouses, more quality smaller grows, and people taking care of the people around them. A dispensary can be anywhere, a park, a mountain, parking lot, etc. Its all about the quality, and being affordable. Quality does not come out of a warehouse, beasters do. I would rather get my medicine from a person, hopefully a friend, not a store. I like buying from different growers. What we need is a coop of grower/patients.

I would rather go back underground than give a dispensary my caregiver rights. A care giver is supposed to be a person in my opinion.

[throatstick]

You are a little late, i think 600 people have already done this. I think there are plenty of dispensaries already, you would just be adding to the problem in my eyes. How about all patients grow there own. How about only going to caregivers.

What we need is more co-ops. Less warehouses, more quality smaller grows, and people taking care of the people around them. A dispensary can be anywhere, a park, a mountain, parking lot, etc. Its all about the quality, and being affordable. Quality does not come out of a warehouse, beasters do. I would rather get my medicine from a person, hopefully a friend, not a store. I like buying from different growers. What we need is a coop of grower/patients.

I would rather go back underground than give a dispensary my caregiver rights. A care giver is supposed to be a person in my opinion.

thats just it the bill will put a stop to the caregiver/caregiver/patients teaming up thing.i talked about this in another thread as a good thing to do but this will be a no go as it goes in the bill.no one will be able to work together and this is supposed to hlep the ill how? i hope the bad stuff in this bill gets changed.this being the main 1 they need to allow us to be able to work together atleast.

[neversummer]

thats just it the bill will put a stop to the caregiver/caregiver/patients teaming up thing.i talked about this in another thread as a good thing to do but this will be a no go as it goes in the bill.no one will be able to work together and this is supposed to hlep the ill how? i hope the bad stuff in this bill gets changed.this being the main 1 they need to allow us to be able to work together atleast.

You just cant have caregivers growing in the same spots. You could still network, just have to have 36 plants per house/grow room. Also the bill allows doctors to prescribe a higher plant count. My doctor prescribed me 50. So that is a way to up your plant count without having to go over 5 patients.

Get creative.

[Justabloke]

I would rather go back underground than give a dispensary my caregiver rights. A care giver is supposed to be a person in my opinion.

It is a person you sign your ticket over to. You can't sign it over to the name of a business. At least that's the way it was pre-1248.

None-the-less, I get where you're comin' from.

j

[puntacometa]

Does that sound so unrealistic?

Some of you are growers and know the growing side like the back of your hand.

Some of you can design and/or set up a grow area of this size.

Some of you are experts in the cloning business.

Some of you are dispensary owners but for one reason or another will no longer be in the business soon. You know the ins and outs of this business.

Some of you have some money but your strength is in one area of the business and can't quite seem to pull it all together.

Lets pull it together and come up with a plan that benefits everybody involved.

Start a dispensary. Lease a warehouse. Hire existing caregivers to grow for the dispensary. The existing caregivers encourage the patients that they can't continue to care for to give the dispensary their caregiver status.

Keep prices reasonable, quality high.

Pay is based on monthly profits after expenses minus an agreed upon percentage of monthly profits kept in an account for unforeseen issues (next years license fee, etc.) Hire an accountant with no ties to any one person. Have complete financial transparency.

Keep it real and keep it honest. Everybody is equal and everybody will work to keep the business going. Pay is ultimately based on profits.

What do you think? :question:

I think you've probably never been in a partnership with a bunch of people you hardly know.
;)

[Justabloke]

How about all patients grow there own.

There are as many reasons of why patients can't grow for themselves as there are patient that can't grow for themselves.

I'm guessing Money and subsidized housing lead the list. I know when I was livin' in Nazi controlled Volunteers of America housing I was lucky to be able to medicate let alone grow 6 big ol stinky plants. Iâ??m sure many of us understand how prohibitively expensive it is to grow marijuana for Coloradoâ??s ultra poor.

It would be bad idea to rely on a grow your own model.


b

[cowgirl1]

Sounds like a good idea on the face. However, with that many people involved it would turn into a major problem. Do not kid yourself when Romer talked about in his speech that hey spoke with Dispencaries and this is what they wanted. We call said he was full of crap. However, we all know now that he did talk with some dispencaries. He talked with the big, well backed, money people "you know the ones that want mom and pop out of business". They want to control everything.

I think the best idea is to get everyone we know to spread the word, protest and STOP buying from these dispencaries. If we do not do that they will drive everyone out of business or underground.
Then the patients, caregivers etc will suffer

[Jord0713]

sounds great in concept, but there would be way too many "chiefs." its near impossible when you have a group of people with all of their own thoughts on how a business should be ran, would only lead to a lot of head butting and eventual implosion. The only way I could see this working is if everyone involved had "departments" that they were responsible for, they were the boss off and that was they end of it...everyone having equal power in every aspect of the operation sounds disastrous, just saying from experience...:)

[lampost]

Yeah, I agree w puntacometa. Sounds like a great idea, but getting unknown people off of a website to be partners is a recipe for disaster!! If you could round up a group of 6-10 people that you know well... then you may have a GREAT Recipe!!

I see what you're saying though about running a new dispensary like a collective! Instead of just 2-3 people... maybe have 10 or so and take the burden off of any one person.

What about some of the existing dispensaries who are facing closure considering this?!? Perhaps, just an example, but places like D9 and Grateful Meds could team up, pool their resources, and maybe stay afloat together whereas alone they both would of sunk?