Quote Originally Posted by Dietblonde
-Licensing clinics and growers
Needs to happen. Plain and simple. Bring in the health department inspectors as well. I wouldn't have a problem licensing commercial growers either.

-Owners and managers of clinics must undergo FBI criminal background checks that cost thousands.
Cost aside, no problem with this either. We should require background checks to make sure criminals are not masquerading as caregivers. I would really be upset if I discovered my medicine purchases were enriching violent drug cartels.

-Allow municipalities/counties to impose a tax of up to 10% of the purchase
price in addition to existing sales, which only punishes the patient.
They already can. No reason for this law.

I think the first two points are really good ideas and should be acted upon immediately. I'm also somewhat concerned about food safety in dispensaries. It will only take *one* case of salmonella in edibles for the state to swoop in and start closing shops. It would be front page news statewide. The sooner we get the health inspectors in and the standards up, the better.