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Quote Originally Posted by Reenster
I do not want to sound inflamatory but I sincerely feel that Matt Brown is not looking out for the best interest of the majority of the MMJ community. Its a shame and I fear unless we the community do not start becoming more involved we will be sorry.

It was not easy to sit and read 49 pages of this bill, but after reading Matt Brown 's fact and fiction about the bill, I felt compelled to check for myself. I found his fact vs fiction mostly accurate but it seemed to leave out alot of other major concerns.

There is so much wrong with this bill. They do not want to allow a community to impose an excise tax on MMJ because they said that they did not want to increase the cost to patients. I fail to see how all of this infrastructure can not translate to higher prices for all of us.

When it comes to dispensaries I still feel the patients will controll which places of business will succeed or fail. We do not need regulation. If a business fits a niche it will make it. The fact is this bill will hurt those of us that are trying to grow a little to defray costs of our medicine.
While reading this bill last night, my thoughts were drawn from the actual content of this mess to wondering HTF a bunch of legislators who are purportedly educated individuals (and supposedly in charge of our collective well being as a society) could possibly come up with such a tortured excuse for a total clusterfuck. I don't have time to specifically enumerate said clusterfucks at the moment, but they are so prevalent and there is so much contradiction and so many things nebulously addressed that it's amazing to me. Our educational system seems to have done our legislators a great disservice.

Hopefully this POS will be shitcanned as being unconstitutional.

I have 5 family members that are patients and with this new bill we would not be able to combine our grows and our resources. Right now I can sell a little of my crops here and there to a dispensary to help defray costs. This allows us to have some more variety in the strains we try. If we really like it we attempt to get a clone or seed of that strain. This will not longer be an option.
This is how I got into it. I've got over 20 patients now. I know them all very well. They are my patients because they like what I do. My overage covers some pretty massive overhead....(try cranking 30 x 1000W HID's through a winter grow season some time). They are already calling me up with the "WTF is going on?" questions.