Quote Originally Posted by veggii
well the problem is: corruption ! us true patients cant afford to buy any meds the gangs have jacked the prices up, and dont have any place to grow them, and noone is giving any to us , so the gangs have gone to the corrupt greedy doctors and gotten scripts and started up dispenciaries because they are the only ones with $$$ to startup and they run the california medical mariuana trade ! i would like to thank our state leaders as this was thier responsibility, too ensure the we have safe access I haven't had any meds in months! fuck them i got my doctor too up my dosage of oxycontin as thats all i can get. corruption greed capitalism at its finest
Veggi;

First, sorry that things are still not better for you. Wish I lived closer to ya, I'd try to help you out.

Second, you have it right. Everything about the California model of "compassinate care" stinks. It is also making it difficult to advance the medical use agenda in other states. Just the other night on CNBC they where showing a news special called Marijanna, Inc. showing the problems in Mendicino Cnty stemming from it.

And my biggest pive is the prices at these "dispenseries"; street prices or HIGHER. Where the fuck is the compassion? How is a person suppose to afford it?

I live in a state that does not recognize medical use of MJ. I work with both a cancer group and a hospice to try and help people who are sick or dying. Many are older folks who have a hard time with the negative stigma associated with MJ and many would benifit from it. But if they can get over the stigma, now tell them what help will cost.....they will never even try it.

I provide MJ to patients for free. Mostly because I believe in it's use so much, but also should I ever have a legal problem, some DA is going to have a "rough row to hoe" in trying to convict (in front of a jury) an old man accused of giving giving away pot for free, to sick and dying people.

(BTW, I'm no saint I also sell some stuff commercially so that I can supplement by meger retirement income and not be a burden to my children or grand-children)

There must be a better way to have medical MJ then what is going on in Cal.
We all must work to try to get the goverment to understand that a man made government has no right to outlaw a God given plant!