Quote Originally Posted by TurboALLWD
Justabloke- Patients have the right to grow anyways, theres TONS of patient grows that are half assed and probably plenty with electrical hazards. Point is I don't see anywhere on the news stories about mmj fires. I have temperature alarms and monitor my grow closely. I take it really seriously, I couldn't do it all myself though. I have a monitor with me in the house where I can see the enviroment settings at all times. Not to mention I had an electrician do the little wiring needed and I have two fire extinguishers on hand. I never leave my grow unattended. The novices out there that have fire hazards in their house wont be able to compete with real caregivers, producing real quality meds. The fire hazards won't stay up and running long enough to even create a fire. I don't see it being nearly as big of a concern as you do.
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Thanks for the reply. So far as it relates to the passage of this bill...I do see a problem and I see serious problems because closing down 50%-80% of this stateā??s disps is wrong. I think they have the money to support *real* *quality* meds in a safe and secure tightly regulated atmosphere where precautions can be taken properly and not setting up a grow in an attic of a 120 year old house. Which you have to admit does happen.

As I rant onā?¦think Mendocino County, California who didn't stop to worry about fire.

I think if we take this away from the disps we as a community are losing major ground in our fight for federal MMJ legalization. The world is watching Colorado just as much as California. We can't lose ground now...we've come too far!

We're talking upwards of 20k individual grows. Many who will become caregivers won't know how to produce quality meds under tightly controlled circumstances with proper precautions in place. If you grow in a warehouse and build appropriately, then yes, that is far better than having hundreds of grows in every neighborhood throughout Colorado. As I said before...people make mistakes and people won't know what they are doing.

If they force this out of the hands of the disps we're going to have real problems and our community will lose the desperately needed funding that our dispensaries SHOULD provide to fight this legislative hurdles they make us overcome on the village, town, city, country, state and federal levels trying to consistently and systematically disassemble MMJ here in Colorado! Each and every dispensary should contribute a percentage if their income to the very community that has supported them WELL into the black operationally speaking. Losing any legal dispensary would be like the community losing a left leg!

That said, IF you know what you are doing and are willing to put out the money for your infrastructure as you have and can do it safely, then, by all means, do! But, the law of averages reigns supreme here.

I'm not saying to take growing away from patients/caregivers I'm just saying make sure they know what they are doing and will provide as safe/secure/regulated atmosphere as possible. Otherwise, leave it to those who know what they are doing have done it for large parts of their lives while evading the very people we are discussing tonight.

J