Quote Originally Posted by puntacometa
Are you sure you are reading this correctly? It appears to me that a patient must designate a dispensary in the same way as they would designate a primary caregiver. If so, this wouldn't necessarily preclude them from buying from another dispensary unless there is language in there that specifically forbids it. I'm not saying youre wrong, just wondering if our legislators might be given the benefit of the doubt relative to not being totally corrupt, and/or clueless.

I've got an MMJ attorney looking this bill over right now. I'll be talking to him later this morning.
I just got off the phone with my attorney. His interpretation of this agrees with mine...IOW....the bill does not restrict patients to shopping at only one dispensary. they designate a dispensary as their primary caregiver and then they can show their registraion card at any dispensary in the state and uy meds.

The big downside for patients and growers will be when the big dispensaries start squeezing their growers for price reductions. This will create two scenarios, neither one of them good.

1. If the price drops and the dispensary isn't moving enough product to roll over a large quantity every day, then the grower will have the choice of either cutting back on his crew and certain expensive overhead items like nutes and HID lights or taking a huge hit to his margins, at which point it may not make sense to continue as a grower. I'm really going to have a problem with my name being associated with mediocre/crappy pot. A big grow is a huge amount of work and I may just say fuck it.

2. The dispensaries that survive will be like Sams Clubs and Monsanto/Archer Daniels Midland will be the only ones supplying their product.