Quote Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
1st the reason ALL you dudes worry about going to jail is because your all talkin about doin unlawful shit

2nd all i hear here is about makin $$$$$ and not helping sick people

just remember what the fed is really worried about is REGULATION and getting THEIR end

you wanna open a co op and NOT go to jail???

make sure you got all your paperwork in order i.e. here in calif the law states that ALL counties must have a Med Marj county ID AS WELL as your Drs reccom. if you live in a county that does not have such a prog go to another and get one of theirs

abide by the law and grow only what you are authorized to. here in calif its 12 plants 6 in flower and 6 in veg

DONT have more med marj on hand that allowed by law again the "base" here in calif is 8oz if you have more than that after YOU ARE arrested the law says that you are entitled to a hearing to demonstrate and present argument to the court that what you DO have is what you NEED to rec benefit. Clinics are allowed 2.5 lbs.

DOCUMENT all the plants you have, that means if you are growing for some RECCOMENDED friends make sure you ID all your plants with their names and Drs name and have copies of all your paperwork on the premisis inclusive of your "caregiver" agreements.

RECORD whatever the DRIED net weight is and ducument where every stick goes.

whats tragic is when all the medical marijuana users get a break from the voters the black market guys try to find some way to abuse it

medical marijuana is NOT for the making of PROFIT but to ease the suffering of the sick and diseased

you break the law you go to jail
I don't know if you have first hand exp or not, all your suggestions "sound" great, but in fact no matter how you cut it, you are opening yourself up to "Federal Prosecution" no matter how by the book you are. It does not matter, at a minimum you will be charged with possession, intent to distribute, and some other weird charge that amounts to pinning you with being behind an "operation" to distribute, the exact ver batum wording escapes me. Brass tax is that no matter how by the book you are, no matter how legit you are, the Feds can do multiple things to you. They can break into and enter your clinic, take anything and everything from the medicine to money in donation jars for other non-profit organization, i.e. (march of dimes, ect...), AND if that's not enough they may even pay a visit to your residence, break in, steal anything they want, arrest you and charge you. Or, they could just take all your money and medicine and not do anything to you personally. That really depends on specifically which county you may be in, even in federal court, you get a jury, and some are known to be harder to receive convictions for than others. (Imagine that, somewhere an overwhelming majority of citizens pass referendums, and the fed can't make them acknowledge federal laws that directly contradict what the citizens of the state voted in...hmmm?:wtf:

For instance in L.A,they recently just went into a clinic, took all the meds and money and left, no arrests? Why??? They do not want to go to trial and lose, it would set a president. So instead they just vandalize and steal in hopes of intimidating clinic owners.

In the current political climate, you are either dumb or ballsy if you want to pursue this, at least in the I.E.

L.A. has moratoriums, so you would really have to do your homework to find a county and city or un-incorporated area where they were already politically set up to allow for it, and even then,
The FEDS!

Read the link in my sig, Ronnie did run the only clinic in Corona, now he is up shit creek and fighting for his life. He was only charged with the bare minimum, no money laundering, tax evasion, weapons, nothing like that. Just possession, distribution, running the clinic, (again the 3rd charge has to do with running the clinic and employing people that were breaking federal law as well by just working there.)
Even with 2.5 lbs, in the clinic you will be doing federal time, look up their sentencing schedule, it is pretty cut and dry. If you are running a clinic, I don't realistically see how having only 2.5 lbs would work. You would have to be open from noon to 5 or spending 19 hours a day meeting with vendors and getting medicine. Not to mention, I really am not sure how you would cover costs with only 2.5 lbs, seriously, you meet with 1-3 vendors everyday to re-up, you have to pay security, rent, ins, wages, taxes, attorney fees, accountants, payroll, and oh yeah, the 2.5 lbs of medicine every day or every other day. Not very practical:wtf:

Delivery services seem like an idea, except the DEA can easily figure out whom is operating these, request delivery, and you know the rest. Would they? Who the hell knows, maybe not, maybe. It's a big gamble, probably wont' work out in the end either way unless lots of things change. You should be content with privately growing your own and feeling reasonably secure in the fact that it is a fat chance in hell that anything will happen if you are following state laws, just don't sell it. Good luck.

Oh yeah and Ziggy is absolutely right about talking about even talking about it at all, this summer the feds used another un named weed tracking forum to "pinpoint" their targets, although there was alot more behind why they picked who they did. But that was one thing they did, they also had 2 agents get legit medical recs and go into the clinics, bait people into saying shit, buy medicine to use as evidence, and release doctored video to feed into their propaganda machine. Don't think for a second they don't visit this site!:thumbsup: