Quote Originally Posted by rightwinger
I know two dispensories owners--that you can walk into and get waited on immediately--both are stating they are struggleing to meet their expenses-"prior" to all these license fees, etc. -I don't expect them to get through the 1st year.

176 dispensories in Colorado Springs--it is simple economics 101--there are not enough patients to support 176 dispensories in Colo. Springs. We haven't even been told how many there will be in Denver or in other areas around the state.

This is a bust--and I truly feel sorry for those people who ran down to Colorado Springs yesterday--throwing all that money at the city coffers--whom have run into a Tsunami of competition--that will be out there trying to get every single marijuana patient signing up with them as providers.

And what determines that will be the price--quality--variety. I think there are many dispensory owners that have never been growers that believe they can grow easily--and are certain to find out that to be a good quality grower requires a lot of expensive equipment--air conditioning--venting--heating--electrical, and most importantly constant attention to the grows.

This was an effort to eliminate the independant growers-the ones that actually know how to grow--and the bad news has just started. Government expansion is self-propetuating--next people to show up will be building department officials making certain that all is up to code. If not--here comes the red tag--shutting down the business until all codes required are met and inspected.
upps--forgot to mention:

Here is the worst: Under bill 1284 dispensory owners must buy from other dispensories--- Now I have been in my own unrelated business for decades--does anyone really believe that I am going to help my competition stay in business?- That's a laugh. These competitor dispensories may want to get rid of their junk--by selling high to another dispensory--the junk they have on their shelves that they can't get rid of--but com'on--they aren't going to furnish other competitors with their best at a reasonable cost. In fact--the rumor around C. Spgs. recently was the biological warfare that is going on between dispensories. Selling clones with spider mites and other diseases.