Dispensaries already lowballing growers

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Originally Posted by cowgirl1

Once they take over the vast majority of it, then grease a few more hands some time down the road, they will pass another bill, it will say something like. If you are a grower/caregiver you have to apply for zone, have to pass fire safety inspections, health dept inspections $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm pro fire safety inspections. :jointsmile:

It is not uncommon for collectives to pick up medicine from growers at $168oz. Just like real estate, your property or buds are worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Oh, and the medicine is AAA beautifully trimmed nugs. so why in the world would they pay much more.

If your thinking of getting into the "growing business", think twice and very carefully. there may not be as much $$ as you think. Growing is not cheap, growing takes a lot of time and it does not always turn out the way you thought it would.

Good advise, grow for yourself, don't quit your day job. you'll save money and smoke way better medicine than can be found in a collective. :rastasmoke:

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Originally Posted by cowgirl1

I agree when marijuana become more legal the price will drop. However, if you really think about it is becoming less legal. This new bill they claim will shut down 80% of the dispensaries, it will limit caregiver to 5 patients etc. To me that is not making it more legal it is making it more illegal in a round about way.

What will happen is they will shut down all the mom and pop places, then the big money backed dispensaries "you know the ones that put money into Romers elections pocket under the table" will take over like wal-mart did then all the smaller stores that are left and caregivers that are left will be pushed out.

You must be thinking, well they cannot push me out....Well as my grandfather use to say.....money talks and bullshit walks.

Once they take over the vast majority of it, then grease a few more hands some time down the road, they will pass another bill, it will say something like. If you are a grower/caregiver you have to apply for zone, have to pass fire safety inspections, health dept inspections $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Or you have to have some type of medical training "something simple" maybe a year or two course to be able to give out medication. Because if you really think about it, they are calling marijuana a medicine and we all know to get medicine that is prescribed by a DR you have to be a college grad with about 10 years of college under you belt.

So, yes with the right laws they could put all of us out of business with a stroke of a pen and never change the Constitution

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You have a good point. It sounds like you follow the laws and ordinance. I live in SoCal/South Bay area. LA and LB have passed ordinances to limit and control MMJ dispensaries. This will have the following effect for the following reason:

60-75% of the collectives, if not more, will be forced to close.
Competition, which drives down the price (patient prices) of medicine will be cut
Collectives will be forced to grow their own medicine shutting out any and all other growers to this "market"
Collectives will charge more for the same medicine because their supply will be controlled, monitored and limited
the "street market" will absorb only so much of the left over medicine until the price of medicine is a joke.
remember, a boat load of people now grow with more and more new growers everyday. say, 90% of them quit growing because they can't get it. that means that there will be at least 10% more growers cranking out medicine than there are today with zero collectives being able to pick up from them.
result, the price of medicine, meaning the price that a grower can get (wholesale) for their medicine will continue to drop and then rebound somewhat.
just look at the last 3 years, the price of medicine has dropped. Great, and I mean GREAT!! OG cost only $40 an eighth.

Great time to be a collective in the right location with all the proper paperwork. Bad time to be a grower trying to make a living (but not for some):pimp:

here's an idea, If a consortium of growers came together and started a collective they would be able to provide medicine to patients at a lower donation and pay their light bills, rent, and cost of all the equipment on time.

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Originally Posted by TheReleafCenter

I think prices are going to fall, and fast. There are a lot of places that will need to close out inventory they can't account for, so that'll go cheap. Then you have the fact that dispensaries are going to be growing however many plants they want, so there's going to be a huge influx of MMJ.

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let me know when ya start the 50 an oz any strain.i'll be by..

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Originally Posted by TheReleafCenter

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm pro fire safety inspections. :jointsmile:

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so you are for the gov walking into homes as they plz ?next thing ya know everyone knows where you are at and what you are doing?wow hummmm b4 it was abit foggy but the fog is clearing out.im starting to see clearly who is who in the zoo....sure if it was fed legal.sure if cops treated a break in at your house as fair as the rest instead of looking at you as an evil drug dealer..good luck with you're 500/1000 plants grows....

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Originally Posted by throatstick

so you are for the gov walking into homes as they plz ?next thing ya know everyone knows where you are at and what you are doing?wow hummmm b4 it was abit foggy but the fog is clearing out.im starting to see clearly who is who in the zoo....sure if it was fed legal.sure if cops treated a break in at your house as fair as the rest instead of looking at you as an evil drug dealer..good luck with you're 500/1000 plants grows....

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Firemen do fire inspections. I'm not for the government walking into homes as they please.

NOBODY should be allowed to inspect your personal grow!

A 1000W only pulls 9.8 Amps (120V)!! That's less than my power-saw (12.8 Amps) and about the same as a clothes washer!

Personal grow are NOT a fire risk, even in an old house. As long as one does their research it's OK. The problem is we have idiots who don't. And we already know we can't go around protecting every idiot from themselves or we'd have laws regarding everything!

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Originally Posted by lampost

NOBODY should be allowed to inspect your personal grow!

A 1000W only pulls 9.8 Amps (120V)!! That's less than my power-saw (12.8 Amps) and about the same as a clothes washer!

Personal grow are NOT a fire risk, even in an old house. As long as one does their research it's OK. The problem is we have idiots who don't. And we already know we can't go around protecting every idiot from themselves or we'd have laws regarding everything!

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It's true, and we already have laws defining what level of business is ok to run out of one's home. In most places, if the home is primarily being used as a residence and doesn't disturb the neighbors you'll be fine. I'm sure they'll define a square footage or plant count or both soon enough though.

I think there's definitely a problem with people blowing up a house and not even living there, but a family living in a house with 12 plants flowering in the basement shouldn't be an issue.

As far as people doing electric mods to their own house, it's not illegal, but it has to be done right or your insurance might not pay if you caused a fire. You could be sued if its a rental, I'd guess.

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Originally Posted by TheReleafCenter

Firemen do fire inspections. I'm not for the government walking into homes as they please.

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wow someone lives in a dream world,you really think those firemen that are friends wil leo that are friends with dea won't say a thing?come on dude i know you have to be smarter than that...