Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
By my reading of the bill there is no licensing of growers, or even a provision by which a dispensary might contract with one. What there is is an optional-premises cultivation permit that will only be issued to dispensaries, who can hire a manager to oversee their grow if they want to. The manager isn't the licensee, though, the dispensary is. The grow takes place at the dispensary or on other premises owned by the dispensary. If this bill passes, there will be a regulatory wall of separation between private caregivers and dispensaries - dispensary weed will all come from dispensary-associated grows; medicine from caregivers or from patients will not legally be sold in dispensaries.
That may be, but what I was alluding to earlier in this thread was this what appeared in the newspaper:

"... the new version would also allow for separate licenses for marijuana- growing facilities tied to dispensaries â?? which could sell a portion of what they grow to other dispensaries â?? and for marijuana product-makers."

This makes me think that a growing facility tie-in can be a facility separate from a dispensary. But then again, I could be wrong.