as I mentioned in some other threads here, non-profit essentially means that monies remaining after paying what the IRS considers reasonable expenses must be dispersed. Audits assure that the money isn't dispersed improperly.

If you sit down and do the real math, there isn't a whole lot of money to made, considering the calculated risk you are going to be taking of you entire operation being taken down by the feds, regardless of what the current politics are, the DEA pretty much does what they want. Obama could be out in three years and who knows which way the wind blows after that

Do the math, you'll see why nobody wants to invest 20-50k for a startup. Those who think it can be done for nothing, never ran any kind of business. This is an agriculture biz, plain and simple, 420 culture aside, you might as well be farming Chile.

This is one reason you aren't seeing dozens of dispensaries cropping up ( hahah) here in NM. Far from the other state models, where dispensaries outnumber starbucks.

People are secretive for any number of reasons, some are blatantly in your face about it. Others are branching out ( haha) into multiple operations and trying to push the non-profit model right to the edge, as everybody in this business needs a six figure legal fund available just in case the feds decide they want a new mexican vacation on the way back from the boarder.

We're really looking at a district of columbia situation here. A law gets passed without any back end support and only after the wagons are circled and the torches are lit will the funding come along to fully implement the programs.

It's similar to the situation in Hatai, places loaded with food and water are denied landing rights while planes carrying news shows are landing by the score.

So far with all the hype, nobody is producing anywhere near max yields or we have some patients diverting supplied by buying max allowed under law from multiple dispensaries ( by the way, no system in place to prevent that from happening, no funds to manage a statewide database of sales)

by the numbers 5 producers should be able to serve 500 patients..let's see

500 patients produce the demand for 1000 z's a month ( going on a recent public statement about consumption), 4 months for a cycle

so every 4 month cycle we need 4000 oz of meds.

uh..that's 250 pounds of top bud meds or 50 pounds per producer.

is this possible....maybe with a perfectly dialed in grow, zero loss to bugs or mold and the other 500 patients never coming around.

If we cut this in half it's still a whole lot of expert production with a 95 plant limit.

And of course we assume every patient can afford $800 a month for meds, crikey, my grocery bill isn't $800 a month and I clip coupons

So what's next...bending the rules will eventually get producers shut down, straining things even more. Patients with money will hoard, so folks on real limited incomes go back to the black market or illegal home growing

we need dozens of producers, and there is simply no way the state is going to process those applications on the backs of a $100 fee with three guys working the mcp program.

We have a real problem here. From the business standpoint, it's open for anybody who can actually produce good yields with a 95 plant limit. Illegal grows are 100% profit, untaxed and unregulated, so that will likely become the source for patients, whose MCP card will simply prevent arrest for possession.

I've chatted with some folks who are on the next round of approvals prior to accepting a board position myself, that's my source for a prior statement that we'll see some more producers real soon.

But that's just sticking a finger in the dyke for most folks.

I pass the soapbox to the next person in line....
patient4200 Reviewed by patient4200 on . Growers Does anyone have any info on weather anymore growers are gonna be approved? I haven't heard nothing so I am just wondering. Because we definatelly need some more. Rating: 5