caregivers forced to register, have info provided to local agencies

are you going solo as a patient grower or are you going to continue being a caregiver, registering with the state, and having your info given to local authorities?

No way in hell am I registering with the state, what are you going to do?

I'd weigh my desire to help my five patients against my preference for anonymity. If my patients were family or close friends or truly needful of my services, that would tip the balance toward registering and continuing to provide. If they were five yahoos from CU, I'd be inclined to tell them to take a hike and scale my operation down to 6/12. Going underground would not be an option because I can't work with a criminal record.

for now, I am sticking to 12 for my wife and I to grow as patients. I have an edibles rec, and this will make it harder to treat our conditions, but there's peace of mind. I never have more than 2 of one strain total or more than 1 of a strain in flower, numbers for diversity and edibles. There's way too much bullshit involved with trying to make $ or even break even. My mission now is to get patients growing. Patients are THE MOST protected growers in our state, and nobody has had any trouble growing their 6 plants, that I've ever heard of.

regs keep me out of dispensaries anyway, so no sales from dispensaries lost on me.

We have edibels recs. yet we have scaled back.They can keep there regs and there "centers".I wil help any patient grow in any way I can.Any patient that can, should grow.The more little grows the better for us , keep them guessing.

I never could wrap my head around the idea of caregivers selling medicine grown on behalf of patients. Caregivers helping patients grow on their own, on the other hand, is A+++. Kudos guys. The more patients who grow, the better.

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Originally Posted by HighPopalorum

I never could wrap my head around the idea of caregivers selling medicine grown on behalf of patients. Caregivers helping patients grow on their own, on the other hand, is A+++. Kudos guys. The more patients who grow, the better.

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We also encourage patients to grow, but recognize that growers that are just starting are not likely to produce product that is of high enough quality to be considered medicinal.

MMC's are a great way to fill this gap between the valuable and rich experience of working hands on with the cannabis plant, and the need for potent, well cured, mold free, flushed medicine.

It is my personal opinion that the caregiver registry isn't necessary, yet I am not surprised.

If I amped up a brewery in my basement and started selling kegs of beer tax-free, when the GOV got wind of it, they might shut me down, or ask for back taxes.

The point being that the line between providing for patients and black-market profit got too grey for the regulators.

the idea of it was to provide cheap or free meds to one's patients and to pay expenses by selling excess. For me, this was always too much of a pain in the ass anyway. I had a couple friends who were patients and charged them less than it cost to produce for above what they were given for free. I didn't profit from growing at all, except for the experience. It's been a great opportunity to learn getting to grow and use a variety of strains side by side. I've learned about what meds work when for my wife and I and previous patients, what different harvest times means for the same strains, the effect of ph and Ca+Mg and nute levels on different strains. Some stains ability to ripen in a CO2 rich environ. and some not, and their ability to withstand certain stresses. I just have to scale back my long term side-by-side experiment. It's been hard letting go of living lines. The availability of good genetics now makes that less of a big deal..

My avatar says it all. I did not renew my license when it expired, as it is the height of hypocrisy that I have to get a doc's rec. and the permission of the government to use cannabis legally. WTF. I refuse to participate in this sham any longer.

As a participant in the industry I have to say that the benefit I have seen the retail model provide far outweighs any concessions we have made. People who would otherwise not have access have it because they can google a shop and go purchase meds.

You can't google a caregiver and all caregivers on here will not register because they don't want to be found or listed.

It is also my opinion that a successfully regulated retail model will be major factor in the future legalization of marijuana.

While I appreciate the feeling that we shouldn't have to ask the government's permission for what we consume and the medicine that we choose to use, it's just the way it is. They have the power.

If you are waiting for them to just give that up, you'll be waiting in your grave.

Cynicism often feels right, but rarely makes political or social progress.

We have to be active in forcing the conversation on our culture and in our society so that perhaps one day, people who grow in their house don't have to feel like they are doing something wrong or that they are criminals, and those who choose to use marijuana are doing just that, making a choice, not committing a crime.