we need patients + caregivers advocacy

[Zedleppelin]

Based on your last sentence, it would seem obvious that the people who were the most vocal got what they wanted. Maybe if all of these small scale growers would have been more pro-active instead of now being reactive, we wouldn't be here.

Thats exactly what happened.

It's silly to attempt to make changes to legislation or repeal or whatever, and it's even more silly to discuss it like it's a viable option.It would be better worth our time if we discussed how to get compliant with current legislation, not change it.

This is just plain ridiculous. The man who sits back, does nothing and conforms becomes a puppet to special interests. Next year will be more legislation to control caregivers and it will go on until they are gone.

For example, let's try to save these small scale basement grows. Let's assume the caregiver lives alone, owns the property, is a patient, and has 5 patients. With a 6 plant cap, that's 30-36 plants max that this grower can have.

Under 1284, can't plant counts be increased to 24 or 50 or something? Why can't that caregiver who grows the super chronic just find 5 patients with really high plant count limits? I don't know what the number is, but let's say 50. 5 patients would be 250 plants, which seems to cover all the bases of these small scale growers, those who didn't want to marry an MMC or pay the offsite license. Wouldn't that be an option to keep the small grow compliant, save the license fees?

First off nothing in 1284 changes for caregivers as far as plant count goes. All it states is that the Dept of Health will recognize higher recommendations for 'centers' and it states it can be used as an affirmative defense which is the way its always been under A20. Doesnt mean the cops will follow it and you will not get charged, it means you can use it as a defense in a trial $30,000 later.

Secondly, even with a higher plant count what do you plan on doing with your extra meds?

Zedleppelin Reviewed by Zedleppelin on 07-07-2010. we need patients + caregivers advocacy there needs to be a political action group with just the patients and small caregivers interests in mind. it doesn't seem like anyone is doing that. it's the businesses that are represented... cuz that's where the $$ is. Rating: 5