Seems to me that rather than a "business" model, three patients could get together under a doctors care and grow 100 plants for themselves and a named group of patients. A co-operative situation. No dispensary, no "business", no public outlet. Just exactly the business model that serves the illegal trade so well. Friends providing for each other.

Joe and Rita will grow at their home in the mountains, the other 6 or 8 patients involved will provide the financing up front for a grow. At the end of the first harvest everyone involved gets six ounces and the rest goes to another grower that takes all patients and has a distribution method. Once the operation is paid for it becomes self sustaining. Six ounces for each member, the excess pays for the operation through sales, and everything else is contributed to the Bill Richardson for President fund. Within a year each cooperative will have paid for itself, and will be providing for its mebers and other patients as well.

In New Mexico, where population is spread out and not everyone is trapped in the city, patients should be able to get together. Why should Tucumcari not support Tucumcari. Portales grows what Portales smokes. Hobbs got some killer rope and I hear a lady down there makes home made cherry garcia ice cream! If ten users in each area came together and decided to act as one I BET THAT THEY COULD DO IT.

I would love to start a communal grow with ten patients in the Santa Fe/Las Vegas/Taos/Espanola area. If we work together we can secure our own supply by legally producing our own. We will form a non profit cooperative with ten members and figure out how to equitably divide the risk and expense.

We need to seize this opportunity even if it is not a lucrative business deal. Patients can get medicine and grows can happen. You probably aint gonna get a dispensary with a public door too soon, and it may be tough for a "producer" but a cooperative sharing resources can get it done for people!