Quote Originally Posted by cowgirl1
I agree when marijuana become more legal the price will drop. However, if you really think about it is becoming less legal. This new bill they claim will shut down 80% of the dispensaries, it will limit caregiver to 5 patients etc. To me that is not making it more legal it is making it more illegal in a round about way.

What will happen is they will shut down all the mom and pop places, then the big money backed dispensaries "you know the ones that put money into Romers elections pocket under the table" will take over like wal-mart did then all the smaller stores that are left and caregivers that are left will be pushed out.

You must be thinking, well they cannot push me out....Well as my grandfather use to say.....money talks and bullshit walks.

Once they take over the vast majority of it, then grease a few more hands some time down the road, they will pass another bill, it will say something like. If you are a grower/caregiver you have to apply for zone, have to pass fire safety inspections, health dept inspections $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Or you have to have some type of medical training "something simple" maybe a year or two course to be able to give out medication. Because if you really think about it, they are calling marijuana a medicine and we all know to get medicine that is prescribed by a DR you have to be a college grad with about 10 years of college under you belt.

So, yes with the right laws they could put all of us out of business with a stroke of a pen and never change the Constitution
You have a good point. It sounds like you follow the laws and ordinance. I live in SoCal/South Bay area. LA and LB have passed ordinances to limit and control MMJ dispensaries. This will have the following effect for the following reason:

60-75% of the collectives, if not more, will be forced to close.
Competition, which drives down the price (patient prices) of medicine will be cut
Collectives will be forced to grow their own medicine shutting out any and all other growers to this "market"
Collectives will charge more for the same medicine because their supply will be controlled, monitored and limited
the "street market" will absorb only so much of the left over medicine until the price of medicine is a joke.
remember, a boat load of people now grow with more and more new growers everyday. say, 90% of them quit growing because they can't get it. that means that there will be at least 10% more growers cranking out medicine than there are today with zero collectives being able to pick up from them.
result, the price of medicine, meaning the price that a grower can get (wholesale) for their medicine will continue to drop and then rebound somewhat.
just look at the last 3 years, the price of medicine has dropped. Great, and I mean GREAT!! OG cost only $40 an eighth.

Great time to be a collective in the right location with all the proper paperwork. Bad time to be a grower trying to make a living (but not for some)imp: