I wouldn't want to be a dispensary or Co-Op with over 100 plants right now...

Thank you Ionmagic, I would like to try oil. I think I need to look at everything I do...Seems to be getting worse and I missed an appointment so am starting over. They cut a couple off and now need to do tests on others. Seems to be getting worse daily. I added you as a friend so hopefully I can IM you, still haven't figured that out....I can probably make oil with some directions...

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Originally Posted by KarolinaKronic

I totally support shutting down the big business of dispensaries. I hope they learn a lesson about sharing the wealth while they are in jail. Paying 5 bucks a gram is a crime!

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Thats what it cost me to grow my own 5 a g....paying 15 a gram for top shelf is a crime:rasta:

Buy low sell high....thats how businesses run...dont like it grow your own..put the stores out of business:thumbsup:

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we're going to have to do "local growers" the way the local "farmers" (as in fruit and veg) are doing it: if you didn't grow it here, you can't market it here; otherwise CALI will suck us all dry. friggin selfish moneychangers.

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Local farmers helping their own communities.. :)

if there were 1000 little co-operatives with there own produce to share why would you need dispensaries anyway? ;)

Growing for personal is the best. Then you know it is quality and has no mildew, chemicals, bugs, etc...

Also it seems to be a lot cheaper than getting MMJ top shelf. With taxes around here, an ounce can go for $360-$380 for top grade.

Just like tobacco, they are trying to tax it out of the community. At this rate people might not be able to afford MMJ and buy illegally on the streets for $100+ savings on their medicine...

Personally, I am growing so I don't have to break the law.

<sigh> Bunch of stoopid politicians around here taxing the financial balance to favor illegal growing; including organized crime?

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Growing for personal is the best. Then you know it is quality and has no mildew, chemicals, bugs, etc...

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Apparently there truly aren't that many patients who can provide for themselves though, for many reasons. I've never been to a dispensary myself..

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Originally Posted by david98686

Apparently there truly aren't that many patients who can provide for themselves though, for many reasons. I've never been to a dispensary myself..

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Count your blessings David.
When dispensaries first started in Tacoma, I was all for it. I really believed their hype about supplying needy patients with local quality meds.
What kind of creature that started back then, is nothing like the monster we see now in the dispensaries.

From personal experience....just about a week ago, I got a call inviting me to drop by since I hadnt been around for a while.
They told me they missed my top shelf meds.
So I paid them a visit with a couple of ounces thinking that they would donate the usual amount.
They know that I needed 250 to cover my costs and time.
After going upstairs and dropping my quality meds on their table, I watched as the owners dived in with glee and claiming it was all for them and they were not going to sell any to patients.
I was blown away by that comment, but it was just the first thing to amaze me that night.
After smoking some of my stash with them, they continued to fill bowls out of the ounces I just dropped off.
So I figured they decided to take my meds.
This is where it gets interesting. They offered me 200 bucks knowing that I would never take that.But since they had already dipped their paws into the product, I figured it was bought and a price just had to be agreed on.
Well, as they walked me downstairs, I thought they were going for the cash, but instead they showed me the door.
As I stood in their doorway, I was told that I would be paid in a couple of days and the price was the one they had decided on without no choice from me. I couldnt get my meds back since I was now outside, so I went home hoping for the best.
Its now going on two weeks now and not even a call.

Before I go further, to add insult to injury, as I was sharing a bowl with the two owners upstairs earlier, they were much too happy to show me a pound of out door Oregon they had just picked up for 1600 bucks. It was keifed and they knew it but they were just happy with their profit margin is all I could get out of the conversation.

I feel the local farmers in this state need to start some sort of union, or atleast some sort of protection should be abided to us by the state before situations like these get out of hand.
If I wasnt as level headed as I am and know that pot is not worth bodily harm, it could have gotten ugly...as Im sure it will in the future someday when they do this to the wrong hot head....


If I do not get paid very soon, I am going to publicly release names and situations to the public and others that need to know.

I dont believe the states intent is to create unlawful and unfair business exchanges between parties.
Courts could get messy........and so can the streets.



~Lem

Lem, I know you were interested in the Farmers Markets, hopefully Medical Marijuana will survive the current legal changes and give patients a choice.
Available space, booth rental costs, favoritism, private ownership of 'Farmer's Markets', I see problems there too.
I'd be be more supportive of the Tacoma one if it weren't privately owned, didn't advertise so much, and didn't
(just my opinion, post it's member list publicly).

Oh, my other personal gripe with current farmers markets is the membership itself..
You rent a booth, where is the need to 'join' anything?..;)

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Originally Posted by Lemonhoko

Count your blessings David.
When dispensaries first started in Tacoma, I was all for it. I really believed their hype about supplying needy patients with local quality meds.
What kind of creature that started back then, is nothing like the monster we see now in the dispensaries.

From personal experience....just about a week ago, I got a call inviting me to drop by since I hadnt been around for a while.
They told me they missed my top shelf meds.
So I paid them a visit with a couple of ounces thinking that they would donate the usual amount.
They know that I needed 250 to cover my costs and time.
After going upstairs and dropping my quality meds on their table, I watched as the owners dived in with glee and claiming it was all for them and they were not going to sell any to patients.
I was blown away by that comment, but it was just the first thing to amaze me that night.
After smoking some of my stash with them, they continued to fill bowls out of the ounces I just dropped off.
So I figured they decided to take my meds.
This is where it gets interesting. They offered me 200 bucks knowing that I would never take that.But since they had already dipped their paws into the product, I figured it was bought and a price just had to be agreed on.
Well, as they walked me downstairs, I thought they were going for the cash, but instead they showed me the door.
As I stood in their doorway, I was told that I would be paid in a couple of days and the price was the one they had decided on without no choice from me. I couldnt get my meds back since I was now outside, so I went home hoping for the best.
Its now going on two weeks now and not even a call.

Before I go further, to add insult to injury, as I was sharing a bowl with the two owners upstairs earlier, they were much too happy to show me a pound of out door Oregon they had just picked up for 1600 bucks. It was keifed and they knew it but they were just happy with their profit margin is all I could get out of the conversation.

I feel the local farmers in this state need to start some sort of union, or atleast some sort of protection should be abided to us by the state before situations like these get out of hand.
If I wasnt as level headed as I am and know that pot is not worth bodily harm, it could have gotten ugly...as Im sure it will in the future someday when they do this to the wrong hot head....


If I do not get paid very soon, I am going to publicly release names and situations to the public and others that need to know.

I dont believe the states intent is to create unlawful and unfair business exchanges between parties.
Courts could get messy........and so can the streets.



~Lem

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This is why we need these kinds of forums. If you've been ripped off by a dispensary, consumers have the right to know. I would pay them one more visit and allow them to fix the problem. If they don't publish who screwed you.