I finally have to comment after reading along for many, many months.

copobo nails it about the set up many folks had going. Many of us have long-term patients with true needs who didn't show up on the Registry in the months after Holder said he wasn't coming. Many of us did what we could/what we had to do to for years to provide these people with free meds. Who the fuck has cancer or AIDS or luekemia that can work everyday and afford to medicate properly at the prices folks are charging today in the dispensaries?? (aka, street prices for those of you with no knowledge of "pre-med"/etc)

I urge all patients who have things set up to remain set up as you were before. If you drop patients as "caregiver" because of 1284's bullshit, bring them back in the fold as a fellow patient and simply donate garden space to them. While 1284 says no 2 'caregivers' can share a garden space I see nowhere that it says no 2 PATIENTS can share a garden space. Am I missing this somewhere or is it a true loophole for us to use? (you dispensary folks remember those, right?)

Either way, no one can track your back channel sales or gifts and I urge you to continue to grow big and provide meds and keep any/all people you can from buying overpriced meds @ the dispensaries. If you give in and give up and let patients fall into this void we will soon see a huge monopoly, and it willl be larger than the present one that is shaping up because the mom and pops are gonna get squeezed out by the WannaMarters and the other huge franchise chains that will McDonald-a-fy this industry if they can do so. At that point the patients that this law was originally written for will just be an afterthought, much like we've seen as the dispensary model unfolded within the last year and a sizeable portion of this movement has turned from need to greed.

you know who you are on both sides of this coin. Respect to those towing the line who remember what this thing we do is really all about.

Whether it be profit or profiteeering, someone else is always picking up the tab.

blackhash