How many medical marijuana businesses want to get licensed--#'s released

According to the CBS 4 Denver and The Denver Post:

More Than 2,000 Want Colo. Marijuana Licenses - cbs4denver.com

2059 TOTAL


717 Dispensaries

1071 Growers

271 Product Makers


Over $7,000,000 in Fees Paid

to the State of Colorado

This really hurts large scale now-illegal caregivers. Kind of hard to remove the 5 patient cap when those who 'pay to play' (non caregivers) have put 7 million bucks into their cause.

Have large scale caregivers 'united' and done anything similar? Is there a way to show that caregivers have paid more than 7 million in taxes from revenues from 'caregiving'?

Isn't the biggest reason for the 5 patient cap is to remove the large scale, for-profit caregivers? It basically moves the large scale grows into the light, ensuring tax revenue for the state?

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Originally Posted by jackmmjpot

According to the CBS 4 Denver and The Denver Post:

More Than 2,000 Want Colo. Marijuana Licenses - cbs4denver.com

2059 TOTAL


717 Dispensaries

1071 Growers

271 Product Makers


Over $7,000,000 in Fees Paid

to the State of Colorado

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from westword:
Every Colorado dispensary and associated business had to apply for a state license by August 1 -- which means we finally have a total number of Colorado pot shops willing navigate the state's new rules and fees. The tally: 717 dispensaries, 271 marijuana-infused product manufacturers and 1,071 grow facilities -- in total earning the state $7.34 million in fees.

Considering there's roughly 105,000 medical marijuana patients in Colorado, that breaks down to about150 patients for every dispensary in the state.

When the dust settles, the number of dispensaries may actually be slightly higher, says Department of Revenue spokesperson Mark Couch, since there's roughly one-hundred mail-in applications that have yet to be processed. In total, the department received slightly more applications than it expected, since it figured about half of the 1,100 or so dispensaries officials had guessed had opened shop would actually go through with the application process.

The numbers also shed light on the size of most Colorado dispensaries. All but 35 of the 717 dispensaries applied for a "Type 1" medical marijuana center license, meaning they serve 300 or fewer patients. Only fifteen applied for a Type 2 license, meaning they work with 301 to 500 patients, and twenty applied for Type 3, reserved for behemoths with 501 or more customers.

What's interesting is that there are more grow-facility license applications than the total number of dispensary and product-manufacturer applications, even though only dispensary owners or product manufacturers can own a grow facility. That's because several business owners appeared to own more than one grow facility, says Couch. "It protects them," he says. "If they have blight on a grow at one facility, they will still have another source for their crops."

Still, other questions remain, such as: How many businesses will make it through the application process and actually be granted the all-important state license.

So the vast majority of MMC's are actually smaller scale, that's interesting. With all the anti-dispensary hate around here, you'd think all the apps would be type two or three, not type one.

You can go up in license any time, so lots of centers went for smaller licenses.

I wouldn't consider 300 patients small scale.

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Originally Posted by boulderbud5525

I wouldn't consider 300 patients small scale.

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Why not? It's only 1800 plants! :eek: [/sarcasm] :D

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Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver

Why not? It's only 1800 plants! :eek: [/sarcasm] :D

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that's what i call jungle love!!!:jointsmile:

So this anti-MMC, 'their quality is crap' mentality is based on the fact that you guys are assuming they are growing exactly six plants for every one of their patients? I guess your argument is that if you're growing that many plants then quality will suffer?

That's like saying small scale growers can't grow more than X amount of plants because quality suffers, or something.

I guess I don't understand all the anti-MMC hate around here, and I wish someone could explain it to me.

Wouldn't small scale, high quality growers (the typical anti-MMC person) have larger grows if money wasn't an issue? If small grows can grow top quality medicine, then why can't those growers scale up and increase inventory and volume? At what point does your anti-MMC-shitty-quality argument start applying to small scale growers such as the typical person reading this site? Do you understand what I'm saying? The argument that MMC's can't possibly grow quality medicine is wrong. What do you think?

SprngsCaregiver: I know you dislike me from past comments, but you seem to be adamantly anti-MMC. Do you think it's possible for an MMC to grow on a large scale and still have small grow quality? Or is it impossible to take small grow knowledge and scale it up? Don't you have experience with small and larger home grows? I am not sure and feel free to correct me. You just seem like you have experience on this subject.

I don't think there is a typical anti-MMC person. The issue doesn't divide so neatly as that. People and groups fighting retail marijuana sales fall into a lot of different categories. The lines between them are very messy and shift often.

A better question is what is the motivation of someone being anti-caregiver/pro dispensary?