Quote Originally Posted by rightwinger
I think I would just sit back and let the smoke clear a little here. In the first place--dispensories are required to grow 70% of their own. If you look at the economics of that--meaning they will have to hire employees-or refer to growers as employees-meaning fica payroll taxes--unemployment insurance--workman's compensation insurance--etc.--plus the economics of growing a plant which is very expensive---and now state license fees- local fees, etc.--it's not to hard to see that the price per oz. is going to dramatically rise.

To add--many dispensory owners are little concerned (the 100 plant) that the feds may enforce.
So if I'm sitting on 100 growing plants when the new law goes into effect and I don't have an affiliation with a "center", approximately how far out in the wind is my ass while I sit back and let the smoke clear?

Can these dispensaries even buy my product if it was growing during the hiatus between July 1 and the time I affiliate with a "center"? What is the status of my crop after July 1 if I'm not affiliated with a dispensary? Seems to me that since the caregiver model for over 5 patients is gone, I'm going to have 70+ plants being grown illegally after July 1 if I don't have my ducks in a row.

Also, the price per oz may rise, but I think we all know how much of that price will go into the pocket of the grower. I had a dispensary offer me a $2500.00 contract last year so that they could "reduce the prices to their patients". Total bullshit. They didn't reduce their prices at all. They just screwed the growers who signed up.