Quote Originally Posted by SprngsCaregiver
I don't believe I have lumped all MMC's together, just the majority.
Yes, there are a handful of good dispensaries. The problem I have is, it doesn't have to be like that.

Well you can see a small glimmer of proof, of lobbing, if you look at the Westword article exposing the man, forgot his name, who was appointed to represent the patients on the advisory committee.

False. I don't see how you came to this conclusion even including "and nothing more" as if you're certain.
1284 created MMC's and limits caregivers. Read it.
There will be no more caregivers climbing the ranks and having the opportunity to open a dispensary because they are producing good meds. There will be plenty of rich kids droping 50k thinking "how hard could it be". Thats my problem. 1284/109 has everything to do with MMC's, its what created them. Its also what is forcing MMC's to be out of federal compliance and at the same time making them sign away all their rights and power of attorney.

As far as overages go 1284 says this..

Another way they are trying to put caregivers out of business.
Let's talk taxes for a moment, and perhaps you'll see where I'm coming from.

You see guys like mattcook, in charge of the department of revenue. You see our struggling economy, and you also see other states such as California struggling to survive.

Then, you see reports of large scale home growers such as barkowitz bragging about making a million bucks. Do you really think the department of revenue ignored that story? Don't you think it's feasible that they checked his income, it didn't match his story, they saw he was breaking federal drug laws, and busted him?

How can you ignore this? It seems apparent to me that this legislation maximizes the revenue generated for the state. It transfers the enforcement to the dept. of revenue instead of health (right?), it ensures revenue generation via licensing fees (right)? Seems to me, the large scale, for profit caregivers were not paying their fair share of taxes on the revenue generated. I don't remember every paying a drug dealer sales tax. Don't you see that the dept. of revenue saw all of these large scale private grows, realized how much money those growers were making (and the sales taxes they WEREN'T paying), and that the wording of this legislation ensures that?

I don't understand how you can possibly take the position that MMC's had something to do with this. MMC's/dispensaries/whatever term you want are spending money to remain compliant. I don't understand how you can say that they had a say or whatever anti-MMC argument you hold. It's just weird, and I still haven't heard a good reason to hate the good MMC's. It seems that you'd rather judge them all as bad instead of paying attention to the good ones.

Assuming you are correct and the 'rich kids' are the only ones opening MMC's moving forward, then hopefully no one buys their low quality product. Maybe they get lucky and hire the right grower, and it's the next releaf or wellspring. I don't have a problem with someone like that opening an MMC, assuming THEY FOLLOW THE LAW. What's wrong with competition if you're so sure of your quality? That's what I don't get about this seemingly adversarial relationship between home grows and dispensaries. It just seems that MMC's are the easiest target. It's been said before, there are VERY few people who are in this industry without blood on your hands.