Hey all, I've been a patient for about 8 mos and have been to a number of dispensaries, and purchased my meds on the street a number of times.

Here are some of my observations and thoughts on pricing, please chime in, hopefully without flaming me and everyone else to death ;D

What is fair to charge?
I hate using street price as a guage, but really that should be the upper end for quality organic medication imo, until the medical market has time to fully mature and develop we don't have another yard stick. In my experience street price for good bud is about $300/oz, somtimes cheaper if it's a "good buddy" dealer or they are trying to move it fast. Sometimes more for something rare/super potent. I personally have no problem paying up to street price for medication if it's truly top quality meds and a strain that works for me is consistently available.

It takes some skill/effort/investment to grow quality meds and I don't begrudge the people who are sticking their necks out trying to make a business out of this their profits. However, I think the universal goal of patients, caregivers and dispensaries should be to lower the cost of quality medication and increase the variety and availability that caregivers can offer across the board. This will happen over time as the market grows and the laws continue to be reformed and improved.

Now this summer there seems to have been a shortage of good meds, at least in the dispensaries. I think this is largely due to the huge influx of new medical patients, which is a great thing. Unfortunately instead of maintaining a level/fair price for their existing patients, many dispensaries signed on more patients than they could really grow meds for, then relied on buying "wholesale" and then having to mark up the product to ridiculous amounts to maintain that nice comfy profit margin. I understand a business not wanting to turn people away, but imo the goal should be to allow patients the freedom to select their medication based on what works for them, not what they can afford. It may be an ideallistic goal, but I think one worth striving for.

Thoughts?